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Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have removed one of its most senior members from leadership after she refused to accept misrepresentations of the 2020 election pushed by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Liz Cheney - the number three Republican in the lower chamber who served as House Republican Conference Chair - faced a no-confidence vote from her caucus after she refused to cow-tow to the former President's claims of fraud in the election he lost to incumbent Democrat Joe Biden. In a blistering speech on the House Floor, Cheney who is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney repudiated the "big lie" as poisoning the country's democratic system. Sherwin Bryce Pearse has more… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.