{"id":463850,"date":"2021-05-02T06:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T10:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=463850"},"modified":"2021-05-02T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T12:46:54","slug":"republicans-call-cheneys-continued-criticism-of-trump-a-distraction-some-question-her-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-cheneys-continued-criticism-of-trump-a-distraction-some-question-her-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Call Cheney\u2019s Continued Criticism of Trump a Distraction, Some Question Her Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Frepublicans-call-cheneys-continued-criticism-of-trump-a-distraction-some-question-her-leadership%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=463850&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--><p>More Republicans have raised concern that Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wyo.) is distracting the party from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gop\">GOP<\/a> policy agenda and hurting its chance to take back the House majority in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea that you just disregard President [Donald] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-trump\">Trump<\/a> is not where we are,\u201d Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said on Friday during an interview with Axios. \u201cAnd frankly, he has a lot to offer still and has offered a lot. He wants to help us win the House back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Minority Whip said Cheney\u2019s anti-Trump narrative is sending out the wrong message and giving the public the false impression that the Republican Party is deeply divided.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise said that the GOP is \u201cvery unified\u201d on its policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think we\u2019ve got to focus on what it\u2019s going to take to get the House back and present conservative alternatives to this far-left socialist movement we\u2019re seeing. Those were the conversations we were having,\u201d the House number two Republican stated. \u201cWe were very unified by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3692412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-463856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  style=\"display:none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-1222x815.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-922x615.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3692412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rep-scalise-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"steve scalise\" width=\"2900\" height=\"1933\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) walks in Washington on Feb. 3, 2021. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Scalise emphasized that Trump is still a very active and vocal leader of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brought millions of people off the sidelines in 2016 that never voted for Republicans or Democrats who really embraced his message and he delivered for those hardworking and forgotten men and women,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise\u2019s remarks came after Cheney, the House Republican Conference Chairwoman, continued a pattern of criticizing Trump and downplaying his influence during the annual GOP legislative retreat recently held in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>On April 26, Cheney responded to a reporter asking her what role she would like to see the former president take in Republicans\u2019 attempt to regain control of the House and Senate in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think right now, the Republican Party is headed by Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in the House. I think our elected leaders are the ones who are in charge of the Republican Party,\u201d Cheney said, referring to the Senate and House minority leaders.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy criticized Cheney\u2019s remarks as a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re sitting here at a retreat that\u2019s focused on policy, focused on the future of making America next-century, and you\u2019re talking about something else, you\u2019re not being productive,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/26\/mccarthy-cheney-gop-484756\">Cheney<\/a> refused to walk back her criticism, saying \u201cit matters hugely to the survival of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3211746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/01\/21\/Jim-Banks-1200x832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-full wp-image-3211746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" alt=\"Jim Banks\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1381\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jim-Banks.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3211746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jim-Banks.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Banks\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1381\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) speaks to The Epoch Times in an interview in March 2019. (Video screenshot\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>More Republicans have since spoken out against Cheney\u2019s public dismissal of Trump, some even question her leadership role in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer lack of focus on that, while being focused on other things, and proving her point, was an unwelcome distraction,\u201d Rep Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/gop-leaders-cheney-ouster-fc28f6c2-507e-4a69-b4c4-6af95cc734fc.html\">Axios<\/a>. \u201cThe sort of sideline distractions at the GOP retreat will only serve to hold us back from being focused on that nearly unanimous goal we have as a conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) went further, predicting that Cheney\u2019s leadership role will be terminated before the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPREDICTION: she\u2019ll be out of her GOP leadership role by month\u2019s end!\u201d he wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lancegooden\/status\/1388539738328547328\">Twitter post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times reached out to Cheney and McCarthy for comments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Masooma Haq contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Republicans have raised concern that Rep. 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