{"id":191700,"date":"2021-03-05T19:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=191700"},"modified":"2021-03-05T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T00:45:04","slug":"paul-ryan-to-host-fundraiser-for-liz-cheney-amid-backlash-over-her-trump-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-ryan-to-host-fundraiser-for-liz-cheney-amid-backlash-over-her-trump-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan To Host Fundraiser For Liz Cheney Amid Backlash Over Her Trump Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpaul-ryan-to-host-fundraiser-for-liz-cheney-amid-backlash-over-her-trump-criticism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=191700&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-664550614.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former GOP House speaker Paul Ryan will host a fundraising event for Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), who is facing backlash over her criticism of former President Trump in the wake of the Capitol riot and her vote to impeach him.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan will host the virtual fundraising event for Cheney, a Wyoming Republican,\u00a0at 11a.m.\u00a0on March 25. Donors have been asked to contribute\u00a0$5,800 to co-host and $2,900 to attend, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook-pm\">invite<\/a> obtained by Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Since her vote to impeach Trump during his second impeachment trial last month, Cheney is now facing two Republican primary challengers,\u00a0Wyoming State Representative Chuck Gray and State Senator Anthony Bouchard, both of whom announced their bids on Thursday.\u00a0Cheney is up for reelection in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for a leader who actually listens to the hard-working people of Wyoming, and not to the D.C. elitists,\u201d Gray wrote in a Thursday tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment. And it doesn\u2019t bend to partisanship; it doesn\u2019t bend to political pressure. It\u2019s the most important oath that we take,\u201d\u00a0Cheney said of her <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">decision to break from the party line and join Democrats and nine other Republicans in voting for impeachment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not be embracing the former president,\u201d she said when asked whether Trump should be a standard-bearer for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The Wyoming Republican Party early last month voted to censure\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Cheney over her impeachment vote.\u00a0<\/span>Also last month, House Republicans voted to keep Cheney<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">\u00a0<\/span>as House Republican Conference chair in a 145\u201361 vote, overcoming a push by some House Republicans to oust her from her role\u00a0as<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">\u00a0the third-ranking member of House GOP leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paul, who represented Wisconsin in the House for two decades, initially criticized Trump fiercely while he was running for president, but the two later developed a largely cooperative relationship, working to enact Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>When Ryan announced in April 2018 that he would not seek reelection, he received generous praise from Trump, who called him a\u00a0\u201ctruly good man\u201d with a \u201clegacy of achievement that nobody can question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump\u2019s tone later soured when Ryan was quoted in a book deriding the president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/new-book-details-how-republican-leaders-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-trump\/2019\/07\/10\/be75eff8-a27d-11e9-b7b4-95e30869bd15_story.html?_view=prod&#038;utm_term=.8be39e9bcacb&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_4\">saying<\/a>\u00a0that Trump \u201cdidn\u2019t know\u00a0anything\u00a0about government\u201d and that he \u201cwanted to scold him all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump subsequently declared that Ryan had \u201cpoor leadership\u201d and called his achievement record \u201catrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s successor, GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), has since attempted to placate all sides, visiting Trump at his Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago at the end of January in an attempt to persuade the former president not to take revenge on the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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