{"id":505368,"date":"2021-05-13T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=505368"},"modified":"2021-05-13T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:36:03","slug":"freedom-caucus-member-ex-cruz-staffer-challenges-stefanik-for-gop-leadership-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-caucus-member-ex-cruz-staffer-challenges-stefanik-for-gop-leadership-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Caucus Member, Ex-Cruz Staffer, Challenges Stefanik For GOP Leadership Post"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ffreedom-caucus-member-ex-cruz-staffer-challenges-stefanik-for-gop-leadership-post%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=505368&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\/05\/Chip-Roy.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, will challenge Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for the Republican conference chair position, only days after he suggested Stefanik\u2019s voting record was too liberal for the position and encouraged his colleagues to consider leaving the post vacant if they couldn\u2019t find someone with conservative values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Roy, a two-term congressman and former chief of staff to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Stefanik, the New York congresswoman endorsed by former President Donald Trump, both spoke to Republican members during a candidate\u2019s forum on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to ABC News, the 48-year-old Roy said that Republicans shouldn\u2019t be rushing to select a GOP conference chair, the vote for which will be held Friday morning. \u201cBut if we\u2019re going to have the vote tomorrow, I\u2019m running,\u201d said Roy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.736842105263\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chiproytx<\/a> says Republicans should \u201cnot rush this process\u201d to select a new conference chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if we\u2019re going to have the vote tomorrow, I\u2019m running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Siegel (@bensiegel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bensiegel\/status\/1392953534119911427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Roy\u2019s decision comes only days after he circulated a memo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-rep-chip-roy-opposes-stefanik-for-leadership-over-voting-record-suggests-leaving-post-vacant\">warning his colleagues against selecting Stefanik<\/a> for the conference chair position on the basis of her record. He also floated the idea of leaving the post vacant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cConsider your response if I asked if you would \u2014 setting aside any friendship or personal feelings about him or her \u2014 support a colleague with the following record to be our spokesperson,\u201d Roy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSolender\/status\/1392191063721496577\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>, who then listed off portions of Stefanik\u2019s record, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Opposition to the Trump tax cuts of 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Support for an amendment overriding Trump\u2019s transgender troops policy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Voting for the Equality Act the first time it was introduced (voting against in 2021)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Voting to ban drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><span>Voting for the \u201cDelivering for America Act \u2014 playing into Democratic Party conspiracy theory that President Trump was trying to destroy the post office\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><span>Voting to override Trump\u2019s border wall funding through SJ Res 54<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><span>Co-sponsoring \u201cpermanent status for Dreamers without any actual badly needed border security to stem the tide of the crisis\u201d in the 115th Congress<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who supported the move to oust Cheney, has welcomed Roy\u2019s decision to run for GOP conference chair, reportedly telling reporters late Thursday that he believes \u201ccompetition is great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former President Donald Trump endorsed Stefanik for the post early on \u2014 before Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) had been formally ousted \u2014 and criticized Roy in a statement merely minutes after The New York Times reported that Roy would run for GOP leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCan\u2019t imagine Republican House Members would go with Chip Roy\u2014he has not done a great job, and will probably be successfully primaried in his own district. I support Elise, by far, over Chip,\u201d said Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, will challenge Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for the Republican conference chair position, only days after he suggested Stefanik\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278113,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Chip-Roy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Freedom Caucus Member, Ex-Cruz Staffer, Challenges Stefanik For GOP Leadership Post","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Chip-Roy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Freedom Caucus Member, Ex-Cruz Staffer, Challenges Stefanik For GOP Leadership Post","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}