WASHINGTON – Republicans are ready to vault Rep. Elise Stefanik into the ranks of House leadership, with the party hoping to turn the page from its searing civil war over the deposed Rep.
Liz Cheney and refocus on winning control of the chamber in next year’s elections. Stefanik, R-N.Y., a moderate turned avid defender of former President Donald Trump and his unfounded claims of 2020 election fraud, was widely expected to be elected Friday as the No.
3 House GOP leader. She'd replace Cheney, R-Wyo., who was ousted this week for repeatedly rebuking Trump for encouraging supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan.
6 and for his lie that his 2020 reelection was stolen from him by fraudulent voting. Stefanik, 36, gives Republicans a chance