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.
WARNING: Congresswoman Liz Cheney will not downplay criticism of Donald Trump, who she says undermines democracy. Photo: NTB / AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta
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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.
Anti-Trump coalition
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Cheney has refused to give in or withdraw criticism, and has previously described Trump as “unfit” to be president of the United States.
– I think you have seen in recent months that the former president of the United States has become more aggressive, more loud, and continues the lie, and I think it is very important that people understand. This is not about looking back, this is about potential damage he is doing now – and which he continues to do, she said according to CNN.
Cheney describes Trump’s grip on the Republican Party as “very dangerous” and “a personality cult».
Mjelde believes that Cheney will be a leader in the “anti-Trump coalition of individual politicians, external groups and Trump-critical media”.
– Maybe there will be a third party, he says.
– But these anti-Trumps will not be able to win until the party and the country put Trump behind them in some way. It hardly happens before the party loses a couple of presidential elections in a row, or that Trump does something that forces a national settlement with him, Mjelde says.
Long out: – A threat
– Long-term struggle
Civita adviser Eirik Løkke shares that view, and believes that Cheney will hardly give up. On the contrary, she now wants a freer platform to “attack Trump and his Republicans.”
– This conflict will persist as Cheney is up for election in 2022, and is being challenged by other Republicans in the primary election. Cheney’s fight for re-election will be a proxy fight for the fight between Trump and Cheney, Løkke says to Dagbladet.
Løkke finds it difficult to see that Cheney will make a political comeback in the short term, but believes that Cheney “thinks of this as a long-term struggle”.
– She thinks that Trump will not be in the Republican Party forever – and that if the Republican Party does badly in 2022 under the strong influence of Trump, then it may open up alternatives, where she can be a future candidate for to target an alternative line to Donald Trump. But it does not look bright right now, he says.
“In the short term, there is no doubt that Trump dominates the Republican Party, and that Cheney has experienced mistrust as part of the leadership of the Republican Party, as she has refused to remain silent in the face of Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories,” says Løkke. .
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