(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming declined to rule out a potential presidential bid in a recent CNN appearance, Breitbart reported.
Cheney made a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, telling anchor Jake Tapper that former president Donald Trump‘s presence in the race might necessitate that she run in 2024 in order to defeat him.
“We’re facing a moment in American politics where we have to set aside partisanship and we have to make sure that people who believe in the Constitution are willing to come together to prevent him from ever again setting foot anywhere near the Oval Office,” she claimed.
“You’re not ruling out a presidential run?” Tapper responded.
“No, I’m not,” she replied.
Tapper began the conversation by noting that Trump will most likely win the Republican nomination.
“Donald Trump is likely to be the next Republican presidential nominee, and he has a decent shot being elected the next president,” he said.
“It could happen,” Tapper continued. “What would a second Donald Trump term look like?”
In response, Cheney noted that the establishment within both parties must work together in order to stop Trump in any way possible.
“Well, he cannot be the next president because, if he is, all of the things that he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people around him—at the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel office—he will do,” she claimed.
Cheney—one of only two non-Democrats hand-picked by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to serve on her Jan. 6 Committee, which laid the groundwork for special counsel Jack Smith’s dubious lawfare attack—continued to call the panel’s work a “guardrail of democracy.”
However, the series of unending partisan prosecutions has appeared to have the opposite of its intended effect for Trump’s political enemies, further entrenching his support and even winning him new fans among those who sense he has been unfairly treated by the corrupt government.
It is unlikely that a Cheney run would cost Trump any voters, but woud rather do more damage to his Democrat opponent.
While failing to see how the collusion of the uniparty against Trump might be harmful to the institution democracy and public faith in the political system, Cheney claimed that the GOP frontrunner’s re-election would undoubtedly mean the end of democracy in America.
“After Jan. 6, after our investigation, after all of the evidence that we laid out about all of the steps and his multi-part plan to overturn the election, there could be no question that he will unravel the institutions of our democracy,” she claimed.
The committee has been harshly criticized for turning its probe into a Hollywood production designed to influence the 2022 election, while cherrypicking the evidence it presented and destroying considerable amounts of evidence that did not fit its narrative.
