Dealing with near-certain defeat in her Wyoming major later this month, Rep. Liz Cheney featured her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in a marketing campaign advert slamming former President Donald Trump as “a coward” and “menace to our republic.”
“In our nation’s 246-year historical past, there has by no means been a person that was a better menace to our republic than Donald Trump,” the forty sixth vice chairman mentioned within the one-minute video.
“He tried to steal the final election utilizing lies and violence to maintain himself in energy after the voters rejected him. He's a coward. An actual man wouldn’t misinform his supporters,” the elder Cheney continued. “He misplaced his election, and he misplaced large. I do know that he is aware of it and deep down, I believe most Republicans comprehend it.”
Dick Cheney then went on to to reward Liz – searching for a fourth time period as Wyoming’s lone member of the Home of Representatives after her father held the seat for greater than a decade – for “standing up for the reality, doing what’s proper, [and] honoring her oath to the Structure.”
“Liz is fearless,” the previous vice chairman went on. “She by no means backs down from a struggle. There's nothing extra essential she is going to ever do than lead the trouble to verify Donald Trump is rarely once more within the Oval Workplace and she is going to succeed.
“I'm Dick Cheney, I proudly voted for my daughter. I hope you'll too,” he concluded.
Liz Cheney was one among 10 Home Republicans who voted to question Trump in reference to final 12 months’s Capitol riot and serves as vice chair of the Home choose committee investigating that day’s violence.
In February 2021, Cheney was censured by the Wyoming GOP over her impeachment vote and was ousted from her place because the Home Republican Convention chair three months later.
In November, she was additional ostracized after the Wyoming GOP voted to not acknowledge her as a member over her repeated criticism of Trump.
Final 12 months, the forty fifth president strongly endorsed Cheney’s major challenger Harriet Hageman whereas accusing the incumbent of being a “warmonger and disloyal Republican.”
Hageman is a heavy favourite within the Aug. 16 major, with a latest Casper Star-Tribune survey giving her 52% of the potential Republican vote in comparison with simply 30% for Cheney.
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