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Every now and then, Liz Cheney emerges to remind us that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This week, the ex-congresswoman, who represented Wyoming in Congress for six years before she was blacklisted from the Republican party for turning on messiah Donald Trump, sat down with NBC News’ Lester Holt at the Aspen Ideas Festival to talk about the future of her party, Donald Trump, and her plans for 2024.
Though she wouldn’t say exactly what she has in the works, Cheney made it clear–very clear–that she has absolutely no intention of doing anything that might make it easier for Trump to get re-elected to another term as president.
“I’m not going to do anything that helps Donald Trump,” the political nepo baby said. “I’ll make a decision about sort of what I do and what comes next later on this year.”
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When asked by Holt about a potential bid for the presidency, and whether she’d run as a Republican or a third-party candidate, Cheney artfully sidestepped the question.
“The way that I’m thinking about where we are and what has to be done is much less about, you know, what should I do in terms of am I going to be a candidate or not … and much more about stopping Donald Trump, whatever that takes,” she replied.
Third-party candidates generally don’t perform well in presidential elections, but they can sometimes tip the races in battleground states.
After becoming Public Enemy #1 among Republicans following her vote to impeach Trump over the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Cheney has seen her poll numbers unexpectedly rise in recent months.
A series of surveys conducted by the Trafalgar Group in March and April saw her approval ratings tick up from 5.3% to 10.3%. And a poll out of Utah conducted in February found her polling at 16.4% in a hypothetical 2024 GOP presidential primary lineup.
Obviously, those numbers aren’t nearly enough to win her the Republican nomination next year, but if Trump were the nominee and Cheney were to run as a spoiler candidate, she might be just popular enough to swing things Joe Biden‘s way.
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In another interview with David Rubenstein this week, the ex-congresswoman again sidestepped a question about running as an independent in an effort to chip away at Trump’s voting block.
“What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots,” she said. “And so I don’t look at it through the lens of like, you know, is this what I should do or what I shouldn’t do. I look at it through the lens of how do we elect serious people, and I think electing serious people can’t be partisan.”
In her interview with Holt, Cheney added, “We really we need to make sure that everybody is active and engaged and involved, and I’m certainly going to be doing everything I can to support serious candidates.”
Unfortunately, based on the way things have been going since 2016, Cheney could be waiting a pretty long time for her party to produce any “serious” candidates.
Fname Optional Lname
Mad respect. May not agree with all of her politics but when it comes to the Orange Turd she knew how dangerous he was and she didn’t keep quiet and she was not complicit.
Paulie P
A smart woman who understands the process and the point of holding an office. The American public made a choice to elect a babbling baffoon over an experienced woman, smart, verbally in tune and clearly a better choice, Hilary. Liz may have voted on some of his policies but her aftermath hopefully will hurt his chances
GinnyA25
While I have massive respect for Liz Cheney for holding Donald Trump’s feet to the fire, her party has been heading in this direction for decades, and she waited until the ultimate fraudster became president to act. It would also be nice if she worked on the GOP’s lack of any policies to speak of before backing anyone. A truly “serious” candidate would know how important it is to give to their constituents rather than take away — abortion, affirmative action, and book banning to name a few. The GOP does not favor people having basic healthcare. They don’t care if people die from lack of vaccinations during pandemics. Who wants that?!
GinnyA25
The GOP is bankrupt of principle. How can there be “serious” candidates based on that alone?
LegionKeign
Ultimately she is STILL a republican and the daughter of a war criminal. She may be on the oust with the trump mob but she is still a christo-fascist and at the first chance would rip what little rights we have away from us, help further the MIC hold over our country and continue the republican destruction of democracy.
Kangol2
Too little too late, Nepo Baby Cheney. You should have spoken out years ago, though your post-attempted-Don the Con-coup wake-up moment is worthy of acknowledgement.
fredk
Bloomberg/Cheney. The dream ticket for 2024.
Kangol2
They’d get all of 10 votes. Not happening. The time for these two, the neoliberal billionaire, and the too-long-silent far-right-wing anti-Drumpfer, passed long ago.