McConnell dodges questions about Liz Cheney

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dodged questions Wednesday regarding calls from top Congressional Republicans to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as House GOP conference chair amid her public feud with former President Donald Trump.

"I think the best way to look at what this new administration is – the president may have won the nomination, but Bernie Sanders won the argument about what the new administration should be like," McConnell said. "We’re confronted with severe challenges from a new administration and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that’s 100% of my focus." Republicans have balked at Cheney’s leadership in recent months as she engaged in a public war of words with Trump following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. In February, McConnell offered a public defense of Cheney after she faced similar calls for her removal after she voted to impeach Trump. Cheney faced renewed scrutiny this week after she publicly called out Trump for repeating his assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.