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Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Wednesday, May 5th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. This morning, we're going to do something a little different. We are going to do an all-house GOP leadership lineup today.

Number one, the latest developments in the effort to oust Liz Cheney. Number two,

getting to know Elise Stefonic, the leading candidate to replace Cheney, and number three,

what the Wall Street Journal editorial board, who we often refer to as the GOP donor paper,

is saying. All right, Jake, let's talk about this effort to oust Liz Cheney.

Things have been moving extremely fast in a time where it kind of seemed like, you know,

for the last several weeks Cheney was on thin ice.

All of a sudden, it appears that there's a real out-and-out effort to get rid of her.

Yeah, the leadership is

collapsing on her, Anna. So here's some things that we're breaking this morning in Punchball News a.m.

Number one, this is the biggest news, actually. Steve Scalise, the number two House Republican,

the House Minority Whip is backing backing Stefanix bid for conference chair.

This is huge. The leadership is completely imploding on Cheney. And it's just, it's unlike

anything I've ever seen. Kevin McCarthy at the same time is calling, was calling yesterday potential

candidates for the,

who were thinking about getting it against DeFonik and suggesting that they stay put.

That includes Jackie Wolorski, the Republican from Indiana.

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