Status: 08/17/2022 05:41 a.m
Hardly anyone tackles former US President Trump more sharply than Congresswoman Cheney – even if both are in the same party. Trump has been trying to oust Cheney for a long time. Now he has achieved great success.
According to projections, the most important inner-party critic of former US President Donald Trump, Liz Cheney, will no longer be a member of the House of Representatives from January.
The Republican lost the primary for the House of Representatives in her state of Wyoming to her party opponent Harriet Hageman. Hageman will be running for the Republicans in the Wyoming constituency in November’s congressional elections.
In a speech that evening, Cheney admitted defeat but stressed that her political career was not over. The outcome of the primary is “the first step in a much bigger fight,” she said, and: “Our work is far from over.”
An expected defeat
Cheney’s defeat had been expected. Trump had supported Hageman and campaigned to vote Cheney out of office. Cheney is vice chair of the investigative committee into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. That day, after a inflammatory speech by the then president, Trump supporters tried to prevent Congress from officially declaring Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the November 2020 election .
Cheney (56) recently told CNN that Trump was guilty of “the gravest breach of duty by a president in the history of our country”.
To this day, Trump maintains the long-disproven claim that he was deprived of victory through fraud. Hageman also claims there was voter fraud. After voting Tuesday, Cheney said the US is at a point “where our democracy is really under attack and threatened. And those of us, Republicans, Democrats and independents, who believe deeply in freedom and who believe in the Constitution and the I believe that those who care about the future of the country have a duty to put this above the party.”
Daughter of former Vice President
Cheney was among 10 Republican congressmen who voted to open a second impeachment trial against Trump after the Capitol attack. However, the necessary majority for a conviction was not achieved in the Senate. Soon after, following Trump pressure, Cheney was voted out of a leadership position in her faction.
Liz Cheney is the daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney. The 81-year-old recently scored sharply with Trump in an election commercial for his daughter. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been a person who poses a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” the Republican said.