New York Rep. Elise Stefanik said Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is “looking backwards” with her attacks on former President Donald Trump.
The newly elected conference chairwoman made the critique of her predecessor during a Sunday segment of Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.
“She is looking backwards. … Republicans are looking forward. We are unified. And we are talking about conservative principles,” Stefanik said of Cheney’s rhetoric toward Trump.
Stefanik was elected to the role on Friday after Cheney, an outspoken critic of Trump, was ousted from her role following a vote from her GOP colleagues. The Wyoming Republican has quickly become an enemy of the former president after she voted to move forward with his second impeachment trial, which resulted in him being acquitted of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Stefanik, who was endorsed for the role by Trump, praised the former president’s achievements, which she indicated were popular with her upstate New York constituents.
“President Trump is an important voice in the Republican Party,” she said. “We are working as one team. And voters across America, certainly voters in my district in upstate New York, we believe that President Trump’s results, whether it was the economic growth, whether it was the historic accords in the Middle East, whether it was being tough on China or the bipartisan coronavirus relief packages — these were significant results that helped everyday Americans.”
Stefanik’s comments come amid an election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, one of Trump’s interests since he departed the Oval Office on Jan. 20 and something she indicated support for. The inquiry has seen bitter fighting between state lawmakers after it was allowed to proceed when Democrats failed to pay a $1 million bond to halt the proceedings.
“I support that audit,” she said on Sunday. “Transparency is important for the American people. And, again, this should be a nonpartisan issue. Whether you’re Republican, Democrat, independent, or conservative, transparency is important. And the audit was passed by the Arizona state Senate.”
Dominion Voting Systems, a prominent target of the former president’s election fraud claims, slammed Cyber Ninjas, the organization conducting the inquiry.
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“Dominion voluntarily provides access to voting machine equipment and information to auditors who have been accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. We happily did so with the independent EAC-accredited providers that Maricopa County hired for system auditing earlier this year,” the company wrote in a statement.
“Not only is Cyber Ninjas unaccredited, but they have also demonstrated bias and incompetence, including committing a serious breach of the secure chain of custody that protects voting equipment,” it continued.
