I never thought that I would care about who ascended to the number three party leadership position in the House.

But believe it or not, the House Conference Chair race seems to signal a whole lot about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

Liz Cheney is out. At least Stefano is in.

I'm Michael Knowles.

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Senator, usually we talk about very heady things from the Senate, from the upper chamber on this show.

Now we've got to talk about the lower chamber.

I hate to bring the tone down here.

But this race, in an ordinary year, this would be sort of a nothing story, has come to dominate

the news cycle.

And the left is making a lot of hay out of it because there's infighting in the GOP, so they like that. But Republicans are paying a lot of attention too, I think, because there's

a big split here for the future of the party. You had Liz Cheney was in the position, and she spent

a lot of her time bashing conservatives in the Washington Post and other left-wing outlets. Then you

had Elise Stefannick, who has a more liberal voting record,

actually, than Cheney, but she, I guess, was more loyal to Donald Trump, and she was nicer to the

conservative base. You then had Chip Roy, who I seem to recall you know quite well, a very conservative

member of the House. He was challenging Stefanik for the position.

It's a little insider baseball,

but I think that this probably could have some big effects on the party.

You know, yes and no.

I actually don't think it's that big a deal going forward.

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