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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in the Oval Office with Donald Trump in happier times.
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Two Republican lawmakers who refused to go along with the Big Lie—and therefore incurred the wrath of former President Donald Trump—are banding together to collect money. Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) registered a joint-fundraising committee with the Federal Election Commission on Friday.
Earlier this year, Cheney, then the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, and Gonzalez, an NFL wide receiver turned two-term congressman, voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Trump sought revenge on both lawmakers. In May, he supported Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) in her ultimately successful push to replace Cheney as the chair of the House Republican Conference. And Saturday, the former president traveled to Ohio to stump for Max Miller, an ex-White House advisor who is now trying to oust Gonzalez in a primary. For their part, both Stefanik and Miller have held campaign fundraisers at Trump businesses in recent months.
Cheney-Gonzalez 2022, the joint fundraising group, will gather money for the two lawmakers’ campaigns, as well as Cheney’s Cowboy PAC and Gonzalez’s Buckeye PAC. Spokespeople for both campaigns did not respond to inquiries.
Cheney’s commitment to helping Gonzalez appears to transcend their shared committee. While Trump was campaigning for Miller, Cheney plugged Gonzalez’s campaign on Twitter.
I took an unusual route to get here. In a past life, I worked as a travel and food writer, which is how I got the assignment in 2016 to cover the grand opening of the
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I took an unusual route to get here. In a past life, I worked as a travel and food writer, which is how I got the assignment in 2016 to cover the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., just a couple miles from my home. When Trump won the election and refused to divest his business, I stayed on the story, starting a newsletter called 1100 Pennsylvania (named after the hotel’s address) and contributed to Vanity Fair, Politico and NBC News. I’m still interested in Trump, but I’ve broadened my focus to follow the money connected to other politicians as well—both Republicans and Democrats.