May 10, 2021: Is the Cheney fight just beginning?

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

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There's good reason to think that the upcoming to vote to oust Rep. Liz Cheney is starting a fight, not ending one. Olivia Reingold is an editor-producer for POLITICO Audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	It's Monday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:10.3	We know we're supposed to be Monday people, but the truth is that it's more on brand for us to
0:15.5	future cast and pretend like we already made it to Wednesday when we're watching for these two big things to
0:22.7	unfold.
0:24.2	One, the ongoing civil war within the GOP over former President Donald Trump may end this week,
0:30.7	because we're expecting a vote to remove Representative Liz Cheney as conference chair on Wednesday morning.
0:37.4	The Washington Post published a juicy
0:39.5	story this weekend that makes us think, maybe the fight is just beginning. That story says that at a
0:46.0	GOP retreat last month, NRC staff briefed attendees on the latest polling numbers in battleground
0:52.4	districts, leaving out a key finding,
0:56.1	that in some of those districts, Trump was down by 15 points.
1:01.1	That, the post says, is at the heart of Cheney's beef within the party.
1:05.5	She's pushing to move beyond Trump, whereas other party leaders say they'd be nowhere without
1:10.7	Trump's base.
1:12.4	One more development pushing Cheney out the door.
1:15.3	Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy endorsed Representative Elise
1:19.8	Stefanik as her replacement on Fox News. First, going on this rant that roughly translated
1:25.8	to Democrats are coming for everything you love.
1:28.8	As conference chair, you have one of the most critical jobs of the messenger of going forward.
1:33.8	Are we talking about what the Democrats are doing on the border?
1:36.8	Are we talking about all the missed jobs report that we just had?
1:39.8	Are we building an economy?
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