If Liz Cheney Doesn't Have A Home In The GOP, Who Does?

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What role do Liz Cheney-type Republicans have to play in the future of the GOP (if any)? And what does Florida’s new voting law tell us about the GOP’s efforts to change the way Americans vote, and the party’s larger motivations? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Full disclosure, there is some skepticism on the crew over whether this trivia game will work.
0:05.5	We'll get to that in a bit though.
0:07.2	Second!
0:08.2	I just had that mic in one second.
0:12.5	Too much enthusiasm, Micah.
0:14.5	Too much...
0:15.5	They told me to be energetic.
0:19.8	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:30.2	Our normal host, Gaelin Drook, is out this week.
0:32.7	I'm 538 Managing Editor, Micah Cohen, filling in.
0:36.4	We've got two segments this week.
0:38.1	To start!
0:39.4	The seemingly imminent ousting of representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
0:43.6	Currently, the number three Republican in the House.
0:46.8	If you were looking for a symbolically rich drama encapsulating the fight over what the
0:51.3	Republican Party should be, well, you got it.
0:54.9	Cheney is the daughter of a former vice president, after all.
0:58.4	At one time at least, she was really the establishment establishment.
1:03.3	But Cheney has repeatedly criticized former president Donald Trump and pushed back on
1:07.9	his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
1:11.9	Cheney's in the House, as early as this week, looked likely to vote her out of the leadership.
1:17.2	We'll discuss whether there's room for Cheney-type Republicans in the modern Republican Party.
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