They need to also withdraw.
Other candidates may enter the race on Cheney's behalf to split the opposition vote.
Or be used as a place to stash votes.
I’ll bet this is what’s going on in CA tonight.
Too hard to make votes disappear anymore.
Too hard to explain support for a Deep State candidate that isn’t there.
So you run lots of candidates and use those RCV-enabled voting machines to siphon off votes from the candidate Deep State doesn’t want to win to the others it got to run as places to stash switched votes.