Stefanik stresses embrace of Trump amid Cheney fallout: ‘We are one team’
“My vision is to run with support from the President and his coalition of voters,” Stefanik said, a reference to Trump, when asked in an interview with Steve Bannon on his radio show Thursday what her vision is for GOP victory in the 2022 midterm elections.
“We are going to run as an alternative to the Biden agenda,” she said, adding, “this is also about being one team. I’m committed to being a voice and sending a clear message that we are one team, and that means working with the President and working with all of our excellent Republican members of Congress.”
Club for Growth, a conservative organization focusing on economic issues, came out Wednesday against Stefanik’s bid to replace Cheney as House GOP conference chair, saying the New York moderate-turned-MAGA congresswoman is “NOT a good spokesperson” for the conference.
The club’s ratings system measures how members of Congress vote on economic issues, and scored Stefanik much lower than the more conservative Cheney, who has a lifetime score of 65%. Stefanik voted against the 2017 Republican tax cut bill, putting her at odds with nearly all of her party and Trump, but has since tacked in his direction.
Republicans are rapidly coalescing around Stefanik as a replacement to Cheney in House leadership as Cheney continues to call out Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
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