Liz Cheney doesn't rule out running for president, calls Trump "the most dangerous threat"; to the nation
Former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyo. In an interview on Sunday, he said he was not ruling out a run for president in 2024 and called Donald Trump "the most dangerous threat" facing the country.
Cheney, one of Trump's most vocal Republican critics, was vice chairman of the House committee on January 6th.On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, he said the commission's findings showed that "there is no question that this will destroy the institutions of our democracy."
"He cannot be the next president, because if he had become president, all the things that he would have tried to do would have been stopped by responsible people around him in the Justice Department, in the White House counsel's office and all of those things.", He's going to do it. “There will be no guardrails,” Cheney said. Cheney said in June she would "do nothing to help Donald Trump in the 2024 election" and was hesitant at the time to announce anything of her own.
Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
In addition to her involvement in the Jan. 6 investigation, Cheney lost major GOP support after becoming one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach Trump in 2021 and was ultimately ousted from her third GOP leadership post in the House. Last year, he lost his re-election campaign to Trump-backed primary challenger Harriet Hageman.
When asked Sunday whether she would rule out a presidential run for 2024, Cheney said, “No, I'm not.”
Cheney said she would also work to support other candidates in the upcoming election.
“I will tell you what I’m definitely going to do. I’m going to spend the next year, between now and the election, certainly helping to elect serious people, helping to elect sane people to Congress,” Cheney said.
Cheney added that she would support candidates of both the Republican and Democratic parties, “we don’t want a situation where the election is thrown into the House of Representatives and Donald Trump has any possibility at all of prevailing under those circumstances.“We are facing a time in American politics when we must put partisanship aside and ensure that people who believe in the Constitution are prepared to unite to prevent it from ever setting foot near it again of the Oval Office,” said Cheney.
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