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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said it would be “very difficult” for her to support Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) or Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after they objected to Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021. Cheney told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl that both Ivy League-educated senators “know better.” “Both of whom know exactly what the role of Congress is in terms of our constitutional obligations with respect to presidential elections, and yet, both of whom took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional order and structure in the aftermath of the last election,” she said. “So in my view,...

Liz Cheney unveils PAC to try to stop MAGA candidates reaching office and names Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as targets because 2020 election claims 'made them unfit for future office' Liz Cheney on Tuesday lost her House seat to a staunchly pro-Trump rival, and has since filed with the Federal Election Commission to launch a new PAC The political-action committee will use the estimated $7 million remaining from her campaign to take on Republicans she feels are bad for democracy Cheney on Sunday singled out Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri as possible early targets She...

Liz Cheney is now revered by the left thanks to her attacks on Donald Trump. The left professes to admire her integrity and courage nut the truth is that Liz Cheney is a grifter. In her recent concession speech she said she'd work to keep Trump from being reelected: “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.” That may sound familiar to you. Very familiar. In 2016 she said this about Hillary Clinton: "...we've gotta do everything possible to make sure they never get anywhere near the Oval...

Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there was now a “bond” that will last forever with her House Republican colleagues who voted to impeach Donald Trump. ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said, “This wasn’t just losing a House seat. You were in leadership, considered a future speaker of the House, maybe even the next speaker of the House. It’s a lot to give up. Any regrets?”

President Joe Biden joined Democrats on Wednesday in defending Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to keep the Republican Conference chair position. When Biden was asked if he had “any comments on the efforts to oust Liz Cheney from the House Republican leadership post?” Biden replied, “I don’t understand the Republicans.” Biden’s comment comes after several Democrats voiced support for Cheney as current Republican Conference chair after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Tuesday Cheney’s family-like style of big government politics is incompatible with “carrying out the message.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Cheney on Tuesday for her “courage” and...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is coming to the defense of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) amid a high-profile feud with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that is sparking fresh questions about her future in GOP leadership. "Every person of conscience draws a line beyond which they will not go: Liz Cheney refuses to lie," Romney tweeted on Tuesday about the No. 3 House Republican. "As one of my Republican Senate colleagues said to me following my impeachment vote: 'I wouldn’t want to be a member of a group that punished someone for following their conscience,'" he added. Cheney is coming...

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney has responded to critics in her own party who criticized her for giving President Joe Biden a fist bump as he walked down the aisle of the House chamber before his first address to Congress. 'I disagree strongly w/@JoeBiden policies, but when the President reaches out to greet me in the chamber of the US House of Representatives, I will always respond in a civil, respectful & dignified way,' she tweeted Thursday night. -snip- Donald Trump Jr. lead the fury against the embattled Cheney who has been facing increasing pressure in her own party. "Republican" warmonger...

Rep. Liz Cheney said in an interview with Punchbowl News Thursday that she will stand behind her vote to impeach former President Trump "every day of the week" as she faces multiple primary challengers in her 2022 reelection effort. Cheney, R-Wyo., is the chair of the House Republican conference and has taken heat from many on the right over her vocal condemnation of Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his followers. That has spurred Trump's wrath in multiple forums and triggered a handful of Republicans to announce primary challenges to her -- Trump...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and House GOP leadership do not appear to have mended fences as the party tries to put on a unified front. In fact, the relationship is "very near a breaking point," Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman writes, adding that in all his years covering the House "this is about as bad as it's gotten." House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appeared to suggest in a recent Politico interview that Cheney, the GOP conference chair who has remained vocal in her criticism of former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, should try...

Liz Cheney said Republicans need to tell voters they are competent and can be trusted if they want to win back those they lost in the 2020 election. 'Where you got to attract back the voters that we lost in 2020 is by conveying to them that, in fact, you know, we are the party they can trust, we're the party of competence and of conservative principles,' Cheney, a Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, said at the House GOP retreat on Monday. -snip- Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, said the party was led by the current...

Liz Cheney is the Adam Kinzinger of Jeff Flakes…. The Wyoming representative has exposed her DeceptiCon credentials beyond any hope of recovery. Her opposition to President Trump and the base sentiment within the pragmatic conservative movement has sealed her fate. Despite her leadership position in congress the establishement know she is a lame-duck walking.Liz Cheney’s upcoming defeat in the 2022 primary is a foregone conclusion. Put a fork in her, she’s done. Cheney knows this. The RNC know this. The GOPe and DeceptiCon leadership know this, and quite a few democrats who support her know this. That is the accurate...

ORLANDO — House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is not ruling out a potential presidential bid, The Post has learned. “I’m not ruling anything in or out — never is a long time,” she told The Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future.