Liz Cheney loses Republican primary, but will continue her crusade against Trump

First modification: 08/17/2022 – 10:20

Legislator Liz Cheney, a harsh critic of Donald Trump, will not be able to run for Congress again in November after losing the Republican caucus in Wyoming to Harriet Hageman, who received the unconditional support of the former president.

Thus, Hageman, who supports Trump’s claims that the 2020 elections were “rigged”, will dispute the seat for Wyoming in the mid-term elections.

Liz Cheney immediately turned the page on a defeat in the Wyoming primary that she herself took for granted, given her head-on confrontation with Donald Trump. And -already this morning- Cheney stood as the de facto leader of the conservative movement that she will seek -she said- to preserve democracy in the United States and guarantee that Trump never returns to the White House. In this sense, Cheney did not rule out running for the presidency herself in 2024.

“No seat in the Senate is more important than upholding the principles we are sworn to uphold. And I well understood the potential political consequences of sticking to my obligation. This primary is over, but now the real work begins,” Cheney said.

A potential candidacy for the presidency would open the door to return the Cheney saga to the Oval Office, 15 years after his father, Dick Cheney, served as vice president leaving a gloomy neoconservative trail, and who lived his maximum expression with the intellectual authorship of an invasion unwarranted over Iraq.

A year and a half after being defeated at the polls, Trump maintains a tight grip on the Republican Party, which recently called the Jan. 6 protests “legitimate political expression” and sanctioned Cheney for participating in the investigation.