Rep. Liz Cheney could be part of a very small minority of Republican voters when they vote in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. If her recent statements are any indication.
The Wyoming Republican and deputy chairman of the special committee that investigated the House of Representatives on Jan. 6 said in an interview published Sunday atthat the Governor of Florida Talked about her widely speculated 2024 party nominee. New York Times.
In her interview, she explained her reluctance to endorse the political career of Crusader Mr. DeSantis: "I can't say I'm gay." Bill and Abortion Rights.
That reluctance was due to Mr. DeSantis' outspoken acceptance of Donald Trump, Mr Cheney said, adding that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the mob's protest against Congress. She called it "dangerous" given the revelations about the unresponsiveness to the attack. He inspired himself.
"I think Ron DeSantis is almost perfectly aligned with Donald Trump. I think that's very dangerous," she told the newspaper.
Republican Party 's refusal to move away from the atmosphere that led to Mr Trump and his rise to power, she continued in an interview, attributed to "the reflexive partisanship I've been guilty of."
On 6 January, she said, "it showed how dangerous that [reflexive partisanship] is."
Because she is unlikely to endorse Mr. DeSantis for her 2024 Republican nomination, she will be so far removed from her party and its voting base that she will be kicked out of the House seat in the primary. There is a possibility. A few days later. Together, Trump and DeSantis garnered more than 90% of her support from Texas Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) attendees in a straw vote for his 2024 rally over the weekend. If Trump didn't run, 65% of survey respondents would have supported Mr. DeSantis.
Cheney himself has not ruled out running for president in 2024 or any future election, but such a bid is likely to fail in the Republican primary. She is widely unpopular with a broad segment of Trump-supporting Republicans, who view her work on the Jan. 6 committee as dishonest and akin to implicit endorsement of the Democratic Party. 23}
However, Ms Cheney said she would not mind voting against the will of the party for the time being, and even expected to do so.In an interview with the Times, she says it may take several presidential elections for Republicans to shake the party's fanatical devotion to the MAGA sector.
The "very sick" Republican Party "continues to fall into a ditch and I think it will take several cycles to heal", according to a congressman.
