US Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks to supporters at an election night event during the Wyoming primary election at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming on August 16, 2022.
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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said she’s considering a presidential run in 2024, she told Today’s Savannah Guthrie.
Cheney said she’ll do “whatever it takes” to keep Trump out of the White House
Cheney lost her Wyoming House primary Tuesday to a Trump-backed challenger.
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said she’s weighing a run for president in the 2024 election, just hours after losing her Wyoming House primary to a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump.
“I’m not going to make any announcements here this morning, but it is something that I’m thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” Cheney told the TODAY show’s Savannah Guthrie during an interview on Wednesday morning.
She continued: “I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”
Cheney told Guthrie that she’s going to spend the next several months completing her work in Congress and with the January 6 Committee.
“I’m going to be making sure that people all around this country understand the stakes of what we’re facing,” Cheney said. “Understand the extent to which we’ve now got one major political party — my party — which has really become a cult of personality.”
Cheney was defeated in Tuesday’s Republican primary election by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman, after she broke with the Republican party for pushing back against baseless election-fraud claims.
A new Federal Election Commission filing early Wednesday morning shows that Cheney has already converted her House campaign finance committee into a federal leadership political action committee, which can be used for a wide range of tasks — including raising money.
“This primary election is over. But now the real work begins,” she said during her concession speech on Tuesday night.
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