It appears Rep. Liz Cheney will lose her leadership position on Wednesday afternoon. That’s when GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has scheduled a vote with Republican colleagues on whether Cheney survives as number 3 in the House leadership, or if she’s replaced by Rep. Elise Stefanik.

McCarthy released a statement saying “internal conflicts need to be resolved” so the GOP can focus on retaking the House in 2022. But in the letter announcing the vote, McCarthy also said this:

“Unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate.”

House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy

In backing Cheney’s ouster, McCarthy says that his leadership team “cannot afford to be distracted” from the work ahead and “this is no time to take our eye off the ball.” He says “unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate.” https://t.co/syukKCXLxR

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 10, 2021

McCarthy, and most Republicans, continue to promote The Big Lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. But that wasn’t always McCarthy’s position. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Cheney recently wrote:

“On the floor of the House on Jan. 13, McCarthy said: ‘The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.’ Now, McCarthy has changed his story,” she wrote.

“The Republican Party is at a turning point, and Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution,” wrote the Wyoming Republican. “In the immediate wake of the violence of Jan. 6, almost all of us knew the gravity and the cause of what had just happened — we had witnessed it firsthand.”