After losing her Congressional seat to a candidate backed by former President Trump, Liz Cheney says she's considering running 'to keep him out of the Oval Office.' Read more
In her speech on Tuesday night, Liz Cheney delivered a stark warning about the danger of Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories, urging politicians on both sides of the aisle to join her fight to protect US democracy.Republican rebel Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress on Tuesday local time to an election conspiracy theorist, but vowed to fight on and do "whatever it takes" to ensure that former president Donald Trump is never returned to power.
The Republican nomination to contest November's midterms instead goes to 59-year-old lawyer Harriet Hageman — Mr Trump's hand-picked candidate who has amplified his false claims of a "rigged" 2020 election. She blamed the former president, who is embroiled in numerous criminal and civil investigations over alleged misconduct in office, for sending the deeply-divided United States towards "crisis, lawlessness and violence" with his inflammatory rhetoric.
She pointedly avoided addressing the issue, but had earlier told CBS that the primary — regardless of the result — would be "the beginning of a battle that is going to continue."Ms Cheney had framed her campaign as a battle for the soul of a party she is trying to save from the anti-constitutional forces of Trumpism.
Ms Cheney voted in line with Mr Trump's positions 93 per cent of the time when he was president but he didn't pull his punches as he sought vengeance for her role in the House committee probe.
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