2024

Liz Cheney—A GOP Congresswoman Until Last Year—Says Democrats Must Retake the House

“It presents a threat if the Republicans are in the majority in January 2025.”
Liz Cheney—A GOP Congresswoman Until Last Year—Says Democrats Must Retake the House
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Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress last year after she committed, in the GOP’s mind, the unforgivable offenses of voting to impeach Donald Trump and refusing to let him off the hook for inciting a violent riot that left multiple people dead. Yet despite all this, the ex-Wyoming representative harbors no ill will toward her former colleagues and is actually cheering for their success on the sidelines.

Just f--king with you, of course. Instead, Cheney is vocally hoping Republicans lose their majority in the House and, honestly, from a fate of humanity perspective, can you blame her?!

Speaking to CBS News for an interview that aired over the weekend, Cheney told John Dickerson that the modern Republican Party is a collection of Trump-worshipping pawns who have turned their backs on the Constitution and have proven that, given the opportunity to try and help Trump steal an election again, they would do it in a heartbeat.

“I believe very strongly in [the] principles and ideals that have defined the Republican Party, but the Republican Party of today has made a choice, and they haven’t chosen the Constitution,” Cheney said. “And so I do think it presents a threat if the Republicans are in the majority in January 2025…. We’re facing a situation with respect to the 2024 election where it’s an existential crisis, and we have to ensure that we don’t have a situation where an election that might be thrown into the House of Representatives is overseen by a Republican majority.”

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Last week, CNN reported that in her new book, out Tuesday, Cheney lights up her former colleagues for their undying fealty to Trump. (In particular, she goes after Kevin McCarthy for being a two-bit hack who visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago three weeks after the insurrection because, he allegedly told her, the ex-president was “depressed” and “not eating.”* Cheney also reveals that House Republican Mark Green referred to Trump as “orange Jesus.”**)

Speaking to Today on Monday, Cheney warned that if Trump wins the 2024 election, it will likely mean the literal end of democracy:

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She also said she’s willing to do whatever it takes to not let that happen, like maybe even voting for Joe Biden.

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*Over the weekend, Trump weirdly insisted that he was not “depressed” and “not eating” but "angry” and “eating too much.”

**Green claims this did not happen.