- Ousted congresswoman does not rule out White House run
- Willing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to prevent second Trump term
- Cheney refuses to rule out presidential bid to thwart Trump
2.26pm BST
House Republicans are expected to hold an election tomorrow to determine who will replace Liz Cheney as conference chair.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who emerged as one of Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders during his first impeachment inquiry, has already announced her candidacy, and she is considered the frontrunner in the race.
Roy sent a memo to every Republican office in the conference on Tuesday arguing that Stefanik should not be serving in leadership and ticking off a long list of issues with her voting record. He also had been pushing for a delay in the election to replace Cheney (R-Wyo.), which will take place later this week.
‘I don’t believe there should be a coronation,’ Roy told reporters on Wednesday. ‘I believe that if the leader wants us to be united, then he should take the time to do this the right way.’
2.16pm BST
Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican party is the “most important issue that we are facing right now as a country, and we’re facing a huge array of issues, so he must not ever again be anywhere close to the Oval Office”, Liz Cheney told the Today show.
“Right now I’m very focused on making sure that our party becomes again a party that stands for truth and stands for fundamental principles that are conservative and mostly stands for the constitution, and I won’t let a former president or anyone else unravel the democracy,” she told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie.
Related: Liz Cheney refuses to rule out run for president in bid to thwart Trump
2.06pm BST
Greetings from Washington, live blog readers.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney spoke to the Today show yesterday, shortly after House Republicans ousted her as conference chair because of her criticism of Donald Trump and his lies about widespread fraud in the presidential election.
JUST IN: “I’m going do everything that I can — both to make sure that that never happens, but also to make sure that the Republican party gets back to substance and policy.” -Rep. Liz Cheney on if she would run for president to keep former President Trump out of the Oval Office pic.twitter.com/s3fRBhdiBV