Lawmaker Liz Cheney, a staunch critic of Donald Trump, will no longer be able to run for the US Congress in the November elections, after a severe defeat in the internal Republican elections in Wyoming. But she has promised a tough battle to prevent the former president from returning to power and does not rule out running for president in 2024.

Liz Cheney lost her internal seat to Harriet Hageman, who received the former president’s unconditional support.

Therefore, Hageman, who supports Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was “rigged”, will contend for Wyoming’s seat in the midterm election, in which Democrats risk losing a narrow majority.

Admitting his defeat, the legislator promised do everything possible to stop Trump from leading the government again from the United States.

“Since January 6, I have said that I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Donald Trump is never closer to the Oval Office, and I mean it,” the congresswoman said in a concession speech after losing her chance in the primary election. run for Congress again in November.

In fact, Cheney, 56, has been a stone in the Republican tycoon’s shoe since he joined the House committee to investigate whether he played a role in the January 6, 2021 assault on Capitol Hill.

Daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney co-chairs that commission of representatives who believe Trump “failed his duty” during his supporters’ attack on Capitol Hill to try to prevent Democrat Joe Biden from certifying victory in the presidential election. of 2020.

open warfare

In response, the 45th President of the United States multiplied his attacks on Cheneywhich he called “unfair”, “warmonger” and “failure”, and gave Hageman his full support.

This 59-year-old lawyer backs Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and will contest the Wyoming seat – a state where Trump won with more than 70% of the vote in the presidential election – in the elections of the half. term.

At the moment, the former real estate mogul celebrated Cheney’s defeatcalling his loss on Tuesday a “wonderful result for the United States”.

“Now he can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where I am sure he will be much happier than he is now,” he said on his social network, Truth Social.

Liz Cheney voted for the tycoon’s impeachment, which did not thrive when he was acquitted by the Senate, and has spent more than a year trying to dismantle this thesis defended by millions of Trumpists.

Ever since he investigated Trump and his associates, the deputy was the subject of a series of death threats and no longer travels without police escort.

This forced her to conduct a kind of shadow campaign, without electoral acts or public acts.

He even avoided the traditional election day photo shoot on Tuesday, dodging the press at the polling station where he voted, near Jackson.

Controversy for the White House?

After admitting her defeat, Liz Cheney stressed that she will not lower her arms in front of her enemy Trump and has not ruled out the possibility of running for president in 2024.

Speaking to NBC after his loss, the Wyoming rep said Trump is “a very serious threat and risk for our republic. “He added that defeating him will require” a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and that’s what I intend to do. “

The legislator did not want to confirm the versions that he would seek the presidency, but admitted: “It’s something I’m thinking about.”

In front of a group of supporters, Cheney described his defeat as the beginning of a new chapter in his political career.

“Our work is far from finished,” he said, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost the Congressional election before rising to the presidency and preserving the union.

Source: AFP

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