On Wednesday, Republican congressman and staunch Trump critic Liz Cheney was ousted. the top job in the Republican Party.
“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never approaches the oval office again,” Cheney told reporters after the wreck.
Cheney removed from leadership in the House
Willing to fight
And now she is making plans for the way forward, she writes CNN. In an interview with NBC, Cheney says that former US President Donald Trump is willing to “dissolve democracy to return to power”.
However, a combative Cheney says she will “re-establish the party”.
“I plan to be the leader, or one of the leaders, in a fight to help rebuild the party,” said Cheney, who has been elected by the state of Wyoming.
Now she confirms that she will run for re-election in the House.
According to The Guardian Cheney was also asked by NBC three times if she plans to run for president in the next election, but did not want to confirm or deny.
For several weeks, others in the Republican Party have been seeking to oust her from her position in Congress because she rejects Trump’s claim that he lost the election last year due to election fraud.
Many Republicans believe she should focus on helping the party win the by-elections next year, rather than on the party split.
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– Bitter and terrible
In a statement on Wednesday, Donald Trump is not gracious in his verdict on Cheney, according to The Guardian.
– Liz Cheney is a bitter and terrible person. I looked at her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party, he wrote about Cheney’s speech in the House Tuesday night.
Furthermore, Trump stated that Cheney has no personality.
– She is a warlord, whose family pushed us into the endless Middle East catastrophe, the worst decision in our country’s history. I look forward to seeing her as a paid contributor on CNN or MSDNC, Trump writes further, according to CBS News.
Liz Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
US expert Hilmar Mjelde, senior researcher at the Norce Research Institute, describes the conflict between Trump and Cheney as “David against Goliath”, and points out that Cheney will so far be nothing more than a stone in Trump’s shoes.
– The way forward is blocked for Cheney in the foreseeable future, because Trump has both close to the entire party and its voters behind him. The anti-Trump wing is toothless because it is so small, Mjelde tells Dagbladet.
He adds:
– But Cheney has three resources that help her: a well-known name, moral authority and access to the national media. The leading media minus Fox News will offer her a microphone in the future, he says.
Until Wednesday, the Wyoming representative was the Republicans’ highest-ranked woman in Congress.
She was one of ten Republican representatives who supported the proposal to sue Former United States President Donald Trump.