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Liz Cheney has vowed to leave the Republican Party if President Donald Trump is the nominee in 2024.
Cheney explained, “I’m going to make sure Donald Trump — I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he’s not the nominee.”
“If he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican,” Cheney said.
Cheney recently suffered a crushing loss in Wyoming by losing to Trump-endorsed primary challenger Harriet Hageman.
She lost by more than a 2-to-1 margin, 66.3% to 28.9%. In her concession speech, Cheney proceeded to double down on exactly the things that cost her the election.
She vowed to keep fighting President Trump and his “insidious lies.” She promised to do “whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”
“Now the real work begins,” Cheney said. Then she proceeded to herself to former President Abraham Lincoln who was also defeated in elections before ultimately prevailing to save the nation during our Civil War.
Cheney said, “The great original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. Lincoln ultimately prevailed. He saved our union and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.”
The anti-Trump Republican notorious voted to impeach Trump. She continues to speak about the importance of the January 6 Committee and how “America will never be the same” if Americans do not “hold those responsible to account.”
“At the heart of the attack on January 6, is a willingness to embrace dangerous conspiracies that attack the very core premise of our nation,” she said.
“Our nation is barreling once again toward crisis, lawlessness and violence,” Cheney added. “No American should support election deniers at any position of genuine responsibility, where their refusal to follow the rule of law will corrupt our future.”
“Trump knows that voicing these conspiracies will provoke violence and threats of violence,” Cheney said, in reference to Trump’s remarks about the FBI raid on his private residence. “This happened on January 6, it is now happening again. It is entirely foreseeable that the violence will escalate further, yet he and others continue, purposely, to feed the danger.”
Cheney has also refused to say whether she prefers Democrats to hold the House over Republicans.
“It’s a tough question. I think that the policies of the Biden administration, there are a lot of bad policies, for example – what we’re seeing now with inflation, what we’re seeing with respect to government spending,” Cheney said.
“I think it’s really important though, as voters are going to vote, that they recognize and understand what the Republican Conference consists of in the House of Representatives today, and how much power the election deniers, the people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Jim Jordan, how much power those people will have in a Republican majority.”
