speech is the reason she lost. two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that in-abl enable his efforts to unravel our system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. so cheney will be out of office come january. until then, she continues at co-chair of the january 6 committee. daniella die assist is live on capitol hill this morning. cheney is vowing do everything in her power to keep donald trump from returning to the oval office. reporter: and she chose to go down fighting donald trump until the end as you guys just noted from that speech last night, that she gave look, she is a lee term congresswoman, she voted to impeach donald trump, she is one of the handful of group of republicans who voted impeach donald trump and a lot
continues to of course be that top republican on that committee and she wants to continue to of course call out former president donald trump for what he has done to democracy as we have noted in her speech last night. let s talk more about it with daniel strauss from the new republic. political consequences for standing up for democracy, standing up to donald trump s election lies. she noouf she c knew she could defeated but she said there was a bigger goal. of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump, eight are now out of office. you don t see someone standing up to those political consequences very often. i ve never seen someone soed a today maadamant as cheney. she was very clear about how outspoken she claimed to be about donald trump and her opposition more so than really any other member of congress. and so going into election