Rep. Liz Cheney Leaves Door Open for 2024 Presidential Run, Won’t Leave GOP
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), after she was ousted from her House Republican leadership position, said Thursday that she won’t leave the GOP and did not rule out running for president.
In an interview with “Today,” Cheney, now the former House Republican Conference chair, was asked several times about whether she wants to run for president in 2024 to prevent former President Donald Trump from winning the presidency again.
“I’m going do everything that I can both to make sure that that never happens, but also to make sure that the Republican Party gets back to substance and policy,” Cheney said, adding that she will “absolutely” again run for Wyoming’s lone House seat in 2022. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, also said that she will not leave the Republican Party.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to remove the Wyoming representative as the third-ranking party member over her criticism of former President Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election.Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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SARATOGA On May 12, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik sent a letter to her Republican colleagues asking for their vote in Stefanik’s bid for House Republican Conference Chair. Republicans voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from that leadership post earlier the same day - the ejection ranked as punishment for repudiating former U.S. President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Stefanik voted in line with former President Donald Trump’s position 77.7% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight, which tracks how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.