‘Kevin McCarthy needs to hold a vote on Liz Cheney, and if he doesn’t, the Republican conference is a total joke,” Gaetz said on the Fox News Channel. ”More than half of the Republican conference has said that this person does not speak for us. Now, you and I both know the Republicans basically have no power in Washington, D.C. ,right now.
”The only power we have is to communicate and if the person we’ve designated to communicate for us as the conference chair doesn’t have the support of the majority of the conference, it is a total fiction you’ve created regarding the entire structure of leadership.”