Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said her colleague, Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C) was right to call former president Donald Trump a “would-be tyrant” and said most members of the Republican conference agrees.
“Our country needs Republicans to be sane, responsible, and speak the truth,” Cheney said on Sunday. “@RepTomRice is right. Most of our Republican colleagues know this. Their silence enables the danger.”
Rice and Cheney were among the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
At a rally in Florence, South Carolina on Saturday night Trump criticized Rice for his vote calling him a “disaster” and “total fool.” Stephen Fry, the candidate endorsed by Trump in the GOP primary against Rice said at the rally that it was time for Rice to go.
The congressman fired back at Trump and Fry in a statement after the rally.
“Trump is here because, like no one else I’ve ever met, he is consumed by spite,” Rice said, according to local CBS affiliate WBTW. “I took one vote he didn’t like and now he’s chosen to support a yes man candidate who has and will bow to anything he says, no matter what.”
“If you want a Congressman who supports political violence in Ukraine or in the United States Capitol, who supports party over country, who supports a would-be tyrant over the Constitution, and who makes decisions based solely on re-election, then Russell Fry is your candidate,” he continued. “If you want a Congressman who cowers to no man, who votes for what is right, even when it’s hard, and who has fought like hell for the Grand Strand and Pee Dee, then I hope to earn your vote.”
