Cheney looms larger for GOP on eve of ouster: The Note

Rep. Liz Cheney won’t be going away -- and neither will the very real concerns she’ll bring to national politics for some time.

The TAKE with Rick Klein It will be a secret ballot that conceals nothing -- and an attempt to look to the future by continuing to talk about a particular episode of the past. The slow-motion ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney from House Republican leadership will almost certainly culminate in a vote Wednesday morning that would pave the way to make Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the House conference chair instead of Cheney, R-Wyo. -- assuming Stefanik fends off late-mounting concerns among conservatives. But even if this is a sign that former President Donald Trump has already won the GOP's civil war, the episode illustrates how party leaders' loyalty to the former president will continue to animate their future.