A Republican National Committee panel unanimously advanced a resolution Thursday censuring Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
The measure will go before all 168 RNC members at Friday's general session, where officials will decide whether to endorse it.
The measure was submitted by David Bossie, a national committeeman from Maryland who is a close ally of former President Donald Trump, ahead of the party's winter meetings this week. His initial proposal called on the RNC to endorse efforts by congressional Republicans to expel Cheney and Kinzinger, both of whom voted to impeach Trump last year, from the House GOP conference.
The resolution read: "The Conference must not be sabotaged by Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who have demonstrated, with actions and words, that they support Democrat efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022. "The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy," Cheney said in a statement Thursday. "I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump.
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