Posted on 06/14/2022 1:17:47 PM PDT by Signalman
The most controversial Republican in Congress will not win re-election to her House seat, but there’s a growing number of Democrats and Republicans who actually believes she should run for president.
Mind you, she wouldn’t have a prayer of succeeding. But the state of American politics and the Republican Party is so toxic that the prospect of Liz Cheney becoming a serious presidential candidate is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Her high-profile role on the Jan. 6 Committee has given her a national platform to spout her warnings of doom and gloom about “insurrections,” which, in turn, has given her access to a nationwide base of donors.
Those donors have bankrolled her candidacy to the tune of $10.1 million — swamping her Trump-backed challenger, Harriet Hageman’s, $2 million raised so far.
What’s significant about the donors is that they ain’t from Wyoming.
Even when she loses in the GOP primary — she’s trailing by 30 points at this point in the campaign — she’ll have a national base of big-money donors who might see Cheney as a GOP savior.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Good. Let somebody waste money.
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