Liz Cheney

Tonight's big news will be the fate of Representative Liz Cheney, whose latter-day conversion from dedicated Republican partisan to Donald Trump's chief ...

( [Here’s a timeline of Trump’s false and misleading comments](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/technology/trump-raid-misinfo-timeline.html)about the search of his Florida residence.) Eastern time](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/wyoming-how-to-vote.html). [Reid Epstein trudged around Wyoming back in February](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/politics/liz-cheney-wyoming-republicans.html), when it was still unclear whether Cheney was planning to run again. A strong Democratic showing in a special election in New York’s Hudson Valley is [the latest example](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/politics/ny-special-election-abortion.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-2022-midterms&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). [follow the results here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/elections/results-wyoming.html). [Great Man theory of history](https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/anthropology/great-man-theory), and she wishes American schools would rededicate themselves to this approach. [“Liz Cheney and the Fate of the 10 Republicans Who Defied Trump,”](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/politics/liz-cheney-impeachment-10.html)Michael Bender and Malika Khurana assess the former president’s campaign of vengeance against the House Republicans who voted to impeach him over the Capitol riot. What are you hearing about what the Liz Cheney superfans in the disaffected corners of the G.O.P. And Liz herself appeared to be on track to be a future speaker until she broke with much of her party after the 2020 election. She inherited her policy views, love of history and belief in American exceptionalism from both parents (don’t forget, her mother, Lynne, is a historian). 6 committee (which, far more than the Wyoming primary, is her focus). That’s clearly the aim of her work on the Jan.

Donald Trump's campaign to oust congressional Republicans who supported his impeachment is getting its last major test of the US midterm primary season.

The daughter of a former vice president, she hails from one of the most prominent political families in Wyoming. And in Washington, she was the No. A party once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly conservatives like Dick Cheney now belongs to Mr Trump, animated by his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the 2020 election.

Donald Trump's campaign to oust congressional Republicans who supported his impeachment gets its last major test of the U.S. midterm primary season on ...

Cheney was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "Liz Cheney isn't fighting for re-election, she's fighting for the direction of the Republican Party," he said, noting that some observers have discussed whether Cheney should mount a presidential campaign in 2024. "I don't see at this point there is any reason to question those results." Already they threaten to launch potentially damaging investigations into his administration should they win. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

The immediate political future of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump's most powerful critics in the GOP, is at stake on Tuesday ...

Murkowski, Republican Kelly Tshibaka and Democrat Patricia Chesbro will advance to the November election, CNN projects, against a fourth candidate yet to be determined. When she was defeated in a 2010 Republican primary during the tea party wave, Murkowski launched a write-in campaign and defeated GOP nominee Joe Miller in the fall. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, was also facing new competition this year fueled by her lack of fealty to the former President. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, whose ascent marked a precursor to the party's Trump era, returned to the ballot on Tuesday. The two survivors to date, in California and Washington, benefited from their states' nonpartisan primary system. "America will never be the same." His enduring popularity there, coupled with Cheney's role as vice chair of the January 6 committee, made the three-term congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney a top target of Trump allies. "Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept, honorably, the outcome of elections. Overnight, the Cheney campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership PAC to be called "The Great Task." "No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. The name of the PAC is a historic nod to Lincoln who spoke at Gettysburg of the "great task" facing the country. "This primary election is over," Cheney said in her speech.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) ran for re-election fulling realizing that winning isn't everything. That surely counts as a personal victory.

She was not one of the handful of Republicans who crossed the aisle to support the infrastructure bill; she was a no on that. Cheney has the calm detachment of a physician questioning a patient to confirm a diagnosis. She is admirable and maddening. She also has a way of delivering good news and making it sound like a prologue to the apocalypse. And then, when a hearing finishes, she gives generous hugs to the witnesses. 6 committee, one of only two Republicans on the panel, she has confronted Trump’s allies with facts and for that she has paid a tremendous political price, forced to wander in the political wilderness where she was befriended by Democrats aghast at right wing lies while also aghast at their sudden admiration for Cheney. She infuriated the new Republican Party, the one that has pledged its allegiance to former president Donald Trump, traffics in election lies and is laying waste to democratic traditions. She faced the cameras and the microphones. On recent bold face agenda items for the Biden administration, she has been a firm “nay.” To say that she’s been a splash of cold water would suggest that her votes have been out of character, a shock to the system. And so there she was on her fateful primary day dressed like an all-American Every Woman who was dutifully squeezing in a vote between grocery shopping and a video call with the office. She is exceptional and privileged. She was dressed in a manner that signifies regular folk, but of course, there’s nothing common about being part of a political dynasty.

Liz Cheney's top challenger was picked by Donald Trump, illustrating the competing sides of the party.

Conceding defeat, Ms Cheney signalled that this was the beginning of a new chapter of her political career. "We are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don't represent us." In the suburbs of the state capital of Cheyenne earlier, a group of Republicans were knocking on doors in a show of last-minute support for Ms Cheney - something they clearly accepted was an uphill battle. In her concession speech, Ms Cheney made clear she would not let up in her criticism of Mr Trump, who has been hinting he may run for the White House again in 2024. Elsewhere, Republican Sarah Palin - who is eyeing a political comeback - has advanced to November's election in Alaska in the race to represent the state in the House of Representatives. Ms Cheney was the last of the 10 to face the Trumpian assault.

Cheney is Trump's highest-profile Republican critic in Congress and a leading figure in the House investigation of his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Liz Cheney also became vice chair of the House select committee investigating the riot. Trump continues to spread election conspiracy theories and falsely assert the election was rigged. The daughter of a former vice president, Liz Cheney had been the No. The vote put a target on all their backs: Trump has worked to purge them and other Republicans he saw as "His clear and unwavering support from the very beginning propelled us to victory tonight," she said. 6, 2021, insurrection, when a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. The outcome of the primary for Wyoming's sole House seat was widely expected, as recent polls showed Cheney trailing her top rival, Harriet Hageman, by double-digit margins. But now, the real work begins," Cheney said. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic," she said. "Tonight, Harriet Hageman received the most votes in this primary. I called her to concede the race. But it would have required that I go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election.

Liz Cheney's sustained criticism of former President Trump made her one of his top political targets. She has pledged her chief goal is to make sure he ...

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The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president.

Critics of the ex-president declared Cheney the moral victor. Trump wrote on his social media platform: “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. “Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. She also warned that supporters of Trump’s “big lie” about voter fraud are currently running for state offices. I called her to concede the race. “It would have required that I enabled his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. She was watched by family members including her parents Dick and Lynne. And tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary. I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.

As counting continues, early results suggest the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney has been defeated by the Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet ...

Thank you WYOMING!" In conceding the race, Ms Cheney said she was not willing "go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election" to win a primary. The ousting of Ms Cheney is the latest sign of Mr Trump's enduring sway over the Republican Party. Ms Cheney described her loss as the beginning of a new chapter in her political career as she addressed a small collection of supporters, including her father, on the edge of a vast field flanked by mountains and bales of hay. In her concession speech on a Wyoming ranch, Ms Cheney said she could easily have taken the seat for a fourth term, but she said that would have required that she go along with Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election, which she was not prepared to do. - Ms Cheney said she wouldn't "go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election to win the primary

Now the real work begins,” she told her supporters after losing her seat in Wyoming, in one of the most anticipated primary races of the year.

After the race, Trump released a statement saying: “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. “It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. Trump won Wyoming in 2020 with 70 per cent of the vote against President Joe Biden – his best result that year. The result makes Cheney the most high-profile casualty of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, in a move that altered their political careers. “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.

Liz Cheney delivers her concession speech. Liz Cheney speaks Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at a primary Election Day gathering ...

(She did manage to note that “Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and House before he won the most important election of all.”) More pointedly, she called out Trump for spreading lies that are likely to incite violence, and for revealing the names of the FBI agents who executed the warrant to search his offices in Florida. “Two years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the vote. Far from conceding, Lieberman said that “As I see it, in this campaign we just finished the first half and the Lamont team is ahead. But rarely do we see the kind of “concession” speech that Cheney delivered tonight. John McCain in 2008 made a point not just of congratulating Barack Obama but celebrating the victory.

US Rep. Liz Cheney conceded she lost the Wyoming Republican primary election to Harriet Hageman on Tuesday, August 16. Speaking to supporters in Jackson, ...

Speaking to supporters in Jackson, Wyoming, Cheney said she could have “easily” won re-election had she “gone along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election,” but that it was a path she “could not and would not take.” “No House seat, no office in this land, is more important than the principles we are all sworn to protect,” she said. Liz Cheney conceded she lost the Wyoming Republican primary election to Harriet Hageman on Tuesday, August 16. And tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary.

Ms Cheney fell to a rival backed by the former president.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. Tuesday’s primary contests in Wyoming and, to a lesser extent, Alaska demonstrated the enduring strength of Mr Trump and his brand of hard-line politics ahead of the November midterm elections. She pushed past GOP censures and death threats to serve as a leader on the congressional panel investigating Mr Trump’s role in the insurrection.

Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has conceded defeat in the US Primary races to Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman.

In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we'll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to her Trump-backed opponent…

Wyoming is a very conservative state and the Trump base there is strong — as it still is in almost all of rural America, even in blue Democratic states. It was that, as vice chair of the January 6th hearings, and as the loudest Anti-Trump Republican voice of recent months, she was cheered by all the people Trump voters most despise. Wyoming conservatives heard all the talking heads in Washington, DC talking about her ‘defending the constitution’ and ‘upholding the rule of law’, but what they saw in the January 6th hearings was an obviously partisan (and probably self-defeating) attempt to banish Trump from public life altogether. She is as off-putting to Trump’s new right-wingers as Le Pen is to old French conservatives. She had become a pin-up for that strange and stubborn alliance of Bush-era Republicans and the pro-Democratic US media; another darling of the old NeverTrump front. Cheney knew she long ago she was going to lose.

Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has conceded defeat in the US primary election, saying she cannot go along with Donald Trump's lies.

Washington: US Representative Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol and a leading figure ...

“Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. “But it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.

She reaffirmed Wednesday morning that she's considering a presidential run. But whether she can find a lane without helping her nemesis remains unclear.

Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) earlier this year — saw her fierce resistance to the former president as counterproductive, according to the recent book “This Will Not Pass.” According to three people close to the group’s discussions, Cheney’s name is in the mix in terms of candidates it would consider putting part of its $50 million cache towards, with some suggesting her as a potential running-mate for a nominee like Sen. But a House primary vote for Cheney is as far as he’s willing to go given the rest of her conservative positions, particularly on abortion. Throughout the summer, she kept her focus on the Jan. Voting Tuesday morning in the bluest part of the state, Horn called her decision to go against Trump “courageous.” [called it a “referendum” ](https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/08-16-2022/mccarthys-confidence/)on her work alongside Democrats investigating Trump on the Jan. The bipartisan group No Labels, which is closely aligned with the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus, is looking to get involved in the 2024 presidential race with significant funds that it’s already raised to help centrist candidates. Vogelheim predicted Cheney would stick to the GOP presidential primary if she runs in 2024, recalling her “emphatic” vow that she wouldn’t be changing parties. She quickly announced Wednesday morning in a POLITICO exclusive that she’ll be forming a new group “to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” as her spokespeson put it. Cheney allies say she won’t get involved in the presidential race if she deems that it would help Trump rather than hurt him. “I think Liz is running the race she wants to run.” Abraham Lincoln, the “great and original champion of our party” as she put it, “ultimately prevailed.

The Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair says “rock hard Republican” Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney has been defeated in the state's primary race.

Wyoming congresswoman says 'It's something I'm thinking about' after losing to Trump-backed challenger.

She explained: “I was so impressed with her integrity on the committee and the way she has stood firm, knowing damn well she was going to lose this election. He added: “This is not the end of Liz Cheney. Beyond “representing the people of Wyoming”, she said: “We have a tremendous amount of work left to do on the January 6 committee. “We’ve got to get this party back to a place where we’re embracing the values and the principles on which it was founded. I was born and raised here and this is the kind of integrity that Wyomingites, when I was growing, totally respected. This is the beginning. [Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, noted that the congresswoman received a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the JFK Library earlier this year. She expressed her belief that “the Republican party today is in very bad shape”. On Tuesday night she said she would “do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office”. “We need that, not the profiles in cowardice that the Republican party has today. Those who support him have lied to them and and they’re using people’s patriotism against them,” she said. She did not respond to the question directly but, when pressed a second time, admitted she was.

The idea that Cheney would have virtually any shot at winning a national Republican primary after such a loss in her home state is, on its face, laughable. And ...

So it’s easy — and very likely correct — to dismiss out of hand the possibility that Cheney might win. The drawback, of course, is that it could signal a death blow for Cheney’s political career, if it still has any life in it. Put simply, there’s arguably nobody more studied in making the case against Trump than Cheney, and she might decide that’s her role to play in 2024 — to air all of this very publicly on the biggest political stage possible. [she went in the opposite direction](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-anti-trump-movement/?isMobile=1&itid=lk_inline_manual_30). That poll shows her huddled in the low single digits with a number of also-rans — including former governors Nikki Haley and Chris Christie — but it also put her in fourth place by virtue of how concentrated the field is. It’s unlikely it would ever truly make her a contender, but sometimes candidates run to try to shape the race in other ways. There’s also the matter of what Cheney knows about what could lie ahead. And judging from recent years, being in the low single digits could be good enough to put Cheney on the debate stage. And a 2024 bid presents an opportunity, at the very least, to do that. Even in the best of circumstances for Cheney — a timeline in which she is smartly playing the long game and banking on Trump’s ultimate downfall — the 2024 campaign is very near. As Cheney noted, the first campaigns are likely to be launched within a few months. And Cheney is shrewd enough to know that.

Liz Cheney went from Republican royalty to outcast. But despite a record election loss to a Trump-backed candidate, she's not giving up, writes Barbara ...

And running as an independent, Liz Cheney would help Donald Trump get elected." "[Cheney] knew that the chances of being re-elected … "But it is something that I am thinking about, and I'll make a decision in the coming months." "I can see Trump supporters arguing that she's no longer an elected Republican representative, that her state party has disowned her, and that she's not a real Republican and therefore is not eligible to run against Donald Trump," he said. And even in the face of a landslide loss, she beseeched Americans of all political persuasions to join her in what she's described as the nation's "great task". "That's a decision that I'm going to make in the coming months. "I could've done so again. [receiving some $US15 million ($21.6 million) in donations ahead of the primary](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/liz-cheney/summary?cid=N00035504&cycle=2022). That alone made her a pariah in her own party, which subsequently stripped her of her leadership position as the third-most-powerful Republican in the House. [a nod to President Abraham Lincoln's call for unity amid one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil war](https://www.preservationmaryland.org/the-great-task-remaining-before-us-the-gettysburg-address-historic-preservation/), as well as her future ambitions. Her fate was effectively sealed when she voted to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection" over the events of January 6, Now, as the Republican candidate in the November mid-term election, her path to Congress is all but guaranteed.

Ms Cheney - once a rising star in the party - also voted to impeach Mr Trump. The primary election in the broadly conservative state highlighted the competing ...

"[It] is something I'm thinking about and I'll make a decision in the coming months," she told Today. "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion." embraced Donald Trump [and] embraced his cult of personality." Speaking to Today, Ms Cheney said it was "dangerous" to elect officials who questioned the result of that election and described it as a "red line" that she would continue to resist. Ms Hageman - who ran to be Wyoming governor in 2018 - was handpicked by the former president and has said she believes the election Mr Trump ultimately lost to President Joe Biden was "rigged". A leading Republican critic of Donald Trump says the party has "embraced his cult of personality" after she was ousted in a primary election.

Trump Republican adversary makes clear that while Trump won the primary battle, the war for the soul of the party rages on.

[Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), 76, who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, said that “of course” she would like see Cheney run for the White House in 2024. It has proved a winning formula in primaries that reward the loudest voices but could yet backfire on the party in the midterm elections, where centrist voters are put off by extremism. But Adam Kinzinger, Cheney’s Republican colleague on the January 6 committee, is confident that she will not yield. She is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him: eight have lost their primary or retired, while only two stand a chance of surviving to the next Congress. For now, Trump will feel that Tuesday demonstrated that revenge is a dish best served Maga. But if the field is crowded and divided, for example between Trump, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, and former vice-president Mike Pence, she could make a symbolic impact in the “moderate” lane. The journeys of these two fiftysomething women neatly sum up where the Republican party is at. If Trump’s not seeking the nomination, he’ll still get to select the nominee. Democrats would be anxious to avoid a repeat of 2000 Heath Mayo, 32, a lawyer, said: “On the question about the future of the party, there are few people making an argument counter to the prevailing Trumpism argument. Keep making the argument.” She invoked Abraham Lincoln, who lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.

Her lonely stance against Donald Trump was seen as treachery by today's cult-like Republicans.

The key is to enrage the over educated moralisers in bicoastal urban America. But this may be to overstate the degree to which the pathology is solely about Trump. The key to success in today’s conservative movement is to provoke those who look down on it. But he is not the last word on it. “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonour will remain,” Cheney told fellow Republicans. In the case of today’s Republicans, however, the extreme sets the narrative. The clearest message is that the Republican party has become an authoritarian cult. Greene openly avows the QAnon theory that America’s establishment is run by paedophiles. She voted 93 per cent of the time with Trump during his term in office. Cheney, on the other hand, has laid down a marker that could define the fate of US conservatism. “We stand at the edge of an abyss,” Cheney recently said. Unlike the real thing, the political version can become a platform for rebirth.

Intent on keeping Trump out of the Oval Office, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said she may consider a presidential run herself. It's Wednesday's news.

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Republican Liz Cheney has conceded defeat in her Wyoming primary race to Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman.

I love its history and I love what our party has stood for – but I love my country more.” I believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded. “No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles we are all sworn to protect.

Liz Cheney is clear about her goal, but the path is murky: A presidential run is possible, she acknowledged, and she has a new political outfit aimed at the ...

“It’s absolutely clear that the only thing that makes a difference is individuals,” Ms. Cheney’s admirers is that the party itself, at both the state and national level, is so in thrall to Mr. But Ms. For the moment, Ms. Cheney to defeat Harriet Hageman, a Cheyenne lawyer, many Trump-skeptical Republicans across the country were watching Wyoming closely, hoping Ms. Yet should she run as a sort of modern-day Bull Moose and attempt to forge an alliance with the Democrats, independents and lapsed Republicans she urged to “stand together” in her remarks Tuesday, she may strengthen Mr. If she runs as an expressly anti-Trump candidate in the 2024 Republican primary, harnessing the media attention that would come with even a long-shot bid, it may only serve to fracture the share of the G.O.P. Cheney also could focus on laying the groundwork for her own candidacy for president — either as a Republican or as an independent. “If she has really good plans, then the amount of money available to her is definitely in the double-digit millions.” Despite the effort to shift quickly from her defeat to her future, Ms. (As if to underscore the point, Ms. And in an early morning television interview, she for the first time acknowledged what many have suspected: She is “thinking” about running for president in 2024, she said on NBC’s “Today Show,” and would decide in the “coming months.”