With Cheney out, Trump has purged most pro-impeachment House Republicans from GOP
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The defeat of most House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump indicates how much a GOP politician can be critical of the former president and survive.
Thomas Phippen is an Editor at Fox News.
"We must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what is required to defeat it. I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office. And I mean it," Cheney said Wednesday, invoking Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, as inspiration for her continued work to save the United States from Trump. And she's launching an anti-Trump organization called "The Great Task," a phrase from Lincoln's Gettysburg address, targeting Trump.
But what the midterm election primary cycle appears to indicate so far is that the GOP has little room for those who are openly anti-Trump. Of the 10 House members who voted to impeach him on charges of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, only two are still in the running to keep their seats. Four have retired, and four have lost their support to Trump-backed candidates.