“We are facing a moment where our democracy is really under attack and under threat,” Cheney said.
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Republican rebel Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress on Tuesday to an election conspiracy theorist, but vowed to fight and do “whatever it takes” to ensure that the former president Donald Trump will never return to power.
Once considered a Republican royal, the Wyoming lawmaker has become a party celebrity for his membership of the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol – and Trump’s role in fanning the flames.
“I’ve said since January 6 that I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump is never anywhere near the Oval Office again, and that’s what I mean,” Wyoming said. in a concession speech after losing his re-election bid.
The defeat to former vice president Dick Cheney’s 56-year-old daughter in the Wyoming Republican primary marked the end of the family’s four-decade long political association with one of the conservative states. America’s best.
Instead, the Republican nomination for midterm elections in November went to 59-year-old lawyer Harriet Hageman, a handpicked Trump candidate who amplified his false claims about a “rigged” election in 2020.
In her speech on Tuesday night, Cheney issued a stark warning about the dangers of Trump’s election fraud conspiracy theories, calling on politicians on both sides to join the fight. her to defend American democracy.
Speaking at a cattle ranch near Jackson, Cheney tried to quickly get over her setback, referring to what she said as “real work” in her bid to make sure Trump didn’t. never take back the White House.
She blamed the former president, who is embroiled in numerous criminal and civil investigations into wrongdoings while in office, for bringing a deeply divided America to “crisis, indifference, law and violence” with his outrageous words.
“No American should support those who refuse to vote, because any position with real responsibility, (because) their refusal to obey the rule of law will damage our future,” she warned. ta.
– ‘Being attacked’ –
There has been speculation that Cheney could challenge Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 – or even run as an independent – and supporters hope her concession speech. She will double as a blueprint for her political future.
She explicitly avoided mentioning the issue, but previously told CBS that the main match – whatever the outcome – will be “the beginning of a battle that will continue.”
“We are facing a moment where our democracy is really under attack and under threat,” she said.
Cheney has shaped her campaign as a battle for the soul of a party she is trying to save from the anti-constitutional forces of Trumpism.
She was the last of 10 Republicans in the House to support Trump’s second impeachment in the face of primary voters.
Four have retired instead of seeking re-election, three lost to Trump-backed opponents, and only two – David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington state – made it through the midterm elections in September. 11.
Cheney voted in line with Trump’s positions 93% of the time when he was president but he hasn’t done his punches when it comes to seeking revenge for her role in the commission’s investigation. House of Representatives committee.
Trump made Cheney his honor, calling her “disloyal” and “fan”, leading to death threats forcing her to travel with police escort.
He called her loss on Tuesday night “a great result for America.”
“Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion, where I am sure she will be much happier than she is now,” he posted on the social platform. His truth.
– Palin’s return bid –
In the polls leading up to Tuesday’s vote in Wyoming — the first U.S. state to give the right to vote to women, in 1869 — congresswoman was forced into a sort of shadow campaign, There are no public demonstrations or events.
She even avoided the traditional election day photo shoot on Tuesday, avoiding the media at her local polling station to cast her ballot in nearby Jackson instead.
“Liz is representing parts of her mind, and they are not part of Wyoming,” said Mary Martin, Republican chair of Teton County, Cheney’s Wyoming base.
There are also elections on Tuesday in Alaska, where the return battle of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin – to complete the term of a dead congressman in office – has divided people. local people.
Fourteen years after gaining international fame thanks to a lost Republican presidential ticket led by John McCain, Palin is still a favorite among women as the “football mom,” a pioneer in the style of football. The ultra-conservative “Tea Party” movement paved the way for Trumpism.
But many voters blame her for giving up her single governor term midway through, amid complaints about ethics, and a recent poll found she was viewed by 60% of Alaskans as unprofitable.
Results in Palin’s race were not expected for several days.
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