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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) on Sunday compared the Republican Party to the Titanic amid an internal battle over Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and the push to oust her from her leadership position.

When asked about the intraparty conflict by host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Kinzinger said the GOP is “in the middle of this slow sink.”

“Right now, it's basically the Titanic. We're like, you know, in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine. And meanwhile, as I've said, you know, Donald Trump TFG 's running around trying to find women's clothing and get on the first lifeboat,” Kinzger said.

“And I think there's a few of us that are just saying, ‘Guys, this is not good,’ not just for the future of the party, but this is not good for the future of this country,” he added.

Kinzinger also zeroed in on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) comments regarding [TFG]’s role in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, adding that Cheney has been consistent.

“Liz Cheney is saying exactly what Kevin McCarthy said the day of the insurrection. She's just consistently been saying it. And a few weeks later, Kevin McCarthy changed to attacking other people,” Kinzinger said.

He added that the Republican Party needs to have “an internal look and a full accounting as to what led to Jan. 6.”

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"I think we've got to get back to winning elections again, and we have to be able to have a Republican Party that appeals to a broader group of people. And we have to get back to having a bigger tent as [former President Ronald] Reagan talked about and not continuing to—look, we had the worst four years we've had, ever, in the Republican Party [under TFG]," Hogan said.

The Republican governor pointed out that Republicans lost "the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate."

"Successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division," he said.

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Republican Joni Ernst accuses party of cancel culture over Liz Cheney ousting
Senator says McCarthy ‘trying to silence others in the party’ in service of Trump

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‘Cancel culture is cancel culture no matter how you look at it.’

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Ms Cheney's fate was decided by House Republicans in a vote behind closed doors on Wednesday morning.

Colleagues reportedly applauded her leadership tenure, but Ms Cheney drew boos when she spoke during the session and said: "We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy."

The vote was not recorded but lawmakers cast an overwhelming voice vote in favour of removing Ms Cheney from her post.

Immediately following her removal, she told reporters: "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office."

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The vote to remove Cheney from her chair position was taken by voice, which means members of the Republican Conference voted aloud to remove her as a whole, and individual votes were not recorded.

Some members expressed disappointment with the speed of the process of the vote.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., told reporters after the vote that there were not the usual speeches offered prior to the vote. He called it "ironic" that the voice vote was used as a sign of unity.

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., called it a "shame."

Cheney spoke briefly before the vote to remove her, calling on her colleagues one last time to move forward from "the big lie" of Trump's false election fraud claims. Buck said some members gave Cheney a standing ovation after her remarks.

She spoke on the House floor Tuesday evening, calling Trump a "threat."

"This is not about policy. This is not about partisanship. This is about our duty as Americans," she said Tuesday. "Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence, while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president's crusade to undermine our democracy."

According to Kinzinger, Cheney had supporters in the closed room where the vote was taken, but it was unclear how many exactly. He told USA TODAY there were “people ready to go to battle for her.” So, having a voice vote rather than a roll call or ballots was a show of “fake unity,” he said.