Liz Cheney IS considering a run for president: Republican Trump critic will decide in early 2024 if she runs as a third-party candidate to stop Donald – even though she could help him by taking votes from Biden
Former Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday she is considering a run for president in 2024 with the goal of keeping former President Donald Trump out of office.
She spoke to USA Today for an interview published Tuesday and said she was interested in creating a new third party.
Cheney said she would also be open to joining a bipartisan party like the one proposed by the moderate group No Labels.
She said: “I think the situation we’re in is very serious, and the politics at the moment require that independents, Republicans and Democrats come together in a way that helps form a new coalition, so this could very well be a third coalition.” . – party option.
At the same time, Cheney insisted that she would not run on the No Labels ticket if it seemed likely to take votes away from Democratic President Joe Biden.
That would help return Trump, the leading contender for the Republican nomination, to the White House.
Rep. Liz Cheney told USA Today on Monday that she is interested in running for president in 2024 and would even join the No Labels group, but only if it meant playing spoiler and returning former President Donald Trump to the White House.
A number of Democratic and nonpartisan analysts have warned that the No Labels effort—the recruitment of a bipartisan third party—will likely do more damage to the prospects of President Joe Biden (left) than former President Donald Trump (right).
Cheney told USA Today that her decision will be influenced by the calculation of whether she will vote for Biden or Trump.
A number of Democratic and nonpartisan analysts have warned that the No Labels effort will likely do more damage to Biden’s standing than Trump’s in next year’s general election because Trump has a very reliable voter base.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” arrived in bookstores Tuesday.
Democrats urged Biden to take seriously the challenges of independent and third parties and contact Cheneyas well as Senator Joe Manchin, who is also flirting with a “No Labels” proposal to get them on board with his campaign instead.
She’s not yet backing Biden, but she’s urging Republican voters to vote for Democrats in Congress, fearing that new House Speaker Mike Johnson might defy the results of the 2024 presidential election.
“This is not a position I came to lightly,” she said.
Cheney said her top priority is defeating Trump and defending the Constitution.
“A president who is willing to ignore the courts, a president who is willing to ignore the barriers to our democracy, poses an existential threat,” Cheney said of the former president.
The former Republican House member also said she hopes to “play a role” in the formation of a “new, fully conservative party.”
“And so whether that means rebuilding the current Republican Party, which … looks like a very difficult, if not impossible task, or creating a new party, I really hope to be a part of that and be a part of that.”
Cheney was the No. 3 House Republican before she was stripped of her leadership position due to her vote to impeach Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and her ongoing criticism of Trump.
She then joined the House Select Committee on January 6, much to the chagrin of her Republican colleagues.
Cheney lost the August 2022 Republican primary to Rep. Harriet Hageman, who supports Trump and has been out of office since January.
“My only regret is supporting Donald Trump,” she told Page.
Her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” was released Tuesday.
She used it in part to shame Trump’s “enablers” and “collaborators” who are willing to criticize the ex-president behind closed doors but appear to go toe-to-toe with him in public.
Cheney ruffled feathers in the office of Tennessee GOP Rep. Mark Green, to whom she wrote “shyly” about “what we’re doing for Orange Jesus” when he signed up to challenge the 2020 presidential election results on Trump’s orders.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney inspired former President Donald Trump’s “Social Truth” rant on Monday, in which he said claims written in her book that Rep. Kevin McCarthy said he was “really depressed” and “does not eat” were false.
Greene’s spokesman denied the congressman’s comments.
On Monday, she also inspired Trump’s rant on Truth Social, writing that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told her Trump knew he lost the 2020 race.
Three weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, McCarthy went to Mar-a-Lago to visit Trump, which he told Cheney was because the ex-president was “really depressed” and “not eating.”
“This statement is not true. “I wasn’t depressed, I was ANGRY, and it wasn’t that I wasn’t eating, it was that I was eating too much,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “But that’s not why Kevin McCarthy was there.” He was at Mar-a-Lago to rally my support and unify the Republican Party. Only good intentions.”
Trump also called Cheney “crazy” and said she was “suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level rarely seen before.”
The former president also falsely claimed that Cheney and other committee members elected on January 6 destroyed the committee’s evidence and findings.