On the eve of House Republicans planning to vote on removing Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from her No. 3 leadership position, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy registered his support for the move but blasted the front-runner choice for her replacement: New York Rep. Elise Stefanik.

“With all due respect to my friend, Elise Stefanik, let us contemplate the message Republican leadership is about to send by rushing to coronate a spokesperson whose voting record embodies much of what led to the 2018 ass-kicking we received by Democrats,” Roy wrote in a Tuesday letter to colleagues obtained by the Washington Examiner.