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The Republicans in the US House of Representatives elected a supporter of the former president to the parliamentary group leadership after the dismantling of Trump critic Liz Cheney.
The MPs elected Elise Stefanik to number three within the parliamentary group on Friday.
The New York MP, who had previously appeared as a moderate, had become a vocal supporter of Donald Trump - and his baseless claims that the 2020 election had been manipulated on a large scale.
Cheney, who had been in the parliamentary group's leadership for the past two years, was voted out of office on Wednesday. She had repeatedly contradicted Trump's false claims about election fraud. She also accused him of inciting supporters before they stormed the Capitol in January and was one of only a few Republican MPs to vote for the impeachment process against Trump. The fact that she was voted out at the urging of the ex-president was a clear sign of how much Trump still has the party under control.