Cheney is a conservative. Stefanik is not.
Republicans are already coalescing around Cheney’s potential successor, with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik campaigning for the role behind the scenes. According to House Republicans familiar with the discussions, she previously spoke to colleagues about challenging Cheney before the first attempt to oust her, but opted against mounting the effort.
Stefanik, first elected in 2014, actually broke from Trump on policy far more than Cheney ever did; her career
FiveThirtyEight Trump score is just
77.7 percent, compared to Cheney’s
92.9 percent. But Stefanik aligned herself with the former president where it mattered most: Objecting to the 2020 election results in multiple states, and fiercely defending Trump during both impeachment trials.
Plus: Arizona Republicans go hunting for election fraud yet again.
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But Stefanik pushes Trump's Big Lie that the election was stolen. So she's aces in the MAGA-verse where the only thing that matters is slavish devotion to their Orange God.