Following the vote, Cheney told reporters that she did not feel betrayed by the vote and that she will keep on fighting to prevent former President Donald Trump from ever making his way back into the Oval Office.

"We cannot embrace both the big lie and the Constitution," she said.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger spoke immediately after Cheney and said there was little speaking among members during the vote to remove Cheney.

He said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said this morning that the vote was about "unity."

Other Republicans leaving the meeting said the conference vote to replace Cheney will likely take place Friday.

A majority of House Republicans, in a voice vote, removed Cheney from her leadership position at a closed door meeting.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York is the front-runner to replace her, having the support of the former president and House GOP leadership.

Inside the closed-door meeting to oust Cheney from Republican leadership -- a monumental moment for the party -- a source familiar with her comments in the room said Cheney warned in her final speech to her colleagues not to let former President Donald Trump make he Republican Party "complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy."

“I am going to take a moment of personal privilege and then we will have the prayer and pledge," she opned.

"I have tremendous affection and admiration for many of you in this room. I know we all came to Washington to do important work for the nation. History has chosen every single one of us. And history has put us here together at this moment of challenge for our country," she said. "Our nation needs this Republican Party as a strong party based on truth so we can shape the future."

"To do that, we must be true to our principles and to the Constitution. We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country," she said.

"If you want leaders who will enable and spread his destructive lies, I’m not your person, you have plenty of others to choose from. That will be their legacy," she continued. "But I promise you this, after today, I will be leading the fight to restore our party and our nation to conservative principles, to defeating socialism, to defending our republic, to making the GOP worthy again of being the party of Lincoln."

She then led the group in prayer.

“Dear God, fill us with a love of freedom and a reverence for all your gifts. Help us to understand the gravity of this moment. Help us to remember that democratic systems can fray and suddenly unravel. When they do, they are gone forever. Help us to speak the truth and remember the words of John 8:32 - 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.' May our world see the power of faith. May our nation know the strength of selfless service. And may our enemies continue to taste the inescapable force of freedom. In Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrived on Capitol Hill before 9 a.m. Wednesday when House Republicans are scheduled to meet behind closed doors to decide whether to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership post via secret ballot.

McCarthy announced the vote to recall Cheney on Monday, after he told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" he supported New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has supported the "big lie" about the election, for the No. 3 House Republican position.

House Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who joined Cheney and eight other House Republicans in voting to impeach Trump, has criticized McCarthy in recent days as being hypocritical, pointing to how McCarthy gave a floor speech in January also tying Trump to the Capitol attack before traveling to Mar-a-Lago to see the former president weeks later.

After the GOP Conference meeting, Cheney spoke to reporters and repeated that she is committed to advancing the Republican Party -- but not the agenda of the former president.

"I am absolutely committed as I said last night, as I said just now to my colleagues, that we must go forward based on truth. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution," she said. "The nation needs a strong Republican Party, the nation needs a party that that is based upon fundamental principles of conservatism, and I am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that's how this party goes forward, and I plan to lead the fight to do that."

Asked if she was concerned that Trump might end up back in the Oval Office, Cheney said she "will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office."

"We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution. And I think it's very important that we make sure whomever we elect, is somebody who will be faithful to the Constitution," she said.

She said she didn't feel betrayed by her colleagues' vote, when asked, but warned of the GOP falling in line with the former president's "very dangerous lies" and said there's work to do for the future of the party.

"I do not. I think that it is an indication of where the Republican Party is, and I think that the party is in a place that we've got to bring it back from, And we've got to get back to a position where we are a party that can fight for conservative principles that can fight for substance, we cannot be dragged backward, by the very dangerous lies of a former president," she said.