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Liz Cheney Considering Third-Party Presidential Run

DEC 5 2023·Updated DEC 6 2023

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The Facts

Former US Representative Liz Cheney has told various media outlets that she is mulling a run for president in 2024 as a third-party candidate. The daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney has been a vocal critic of former Pres. Donald Trump; Trump is the current frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
Reuters
Cheney served as a top House Republican representing Wyoming but lost favor in the GOP after she became one of the party's loudest anti-Trump voices. She helped run the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and lost her re-election bid in 2022 to Harriet Hagerman.
ABC News
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Cheney is considering a run for president and that she will do "whatever it takes" to prevent Trump from winning the presidency. She told the Washington Post in an interview that a second Trump administration could destroy America's democracy.
Daily Caller
She told the Post that she considered a third-party run in the past and will make a decision for 2024 in the next few months. Cheney could join a bipartisan ticket, but she said that she would not join a "unity" ticket brought by the No Labels group if the ticket helped Trump’s chances of winning.
ABC News
A Cheney ticket would join Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West among the field of third-party candidates, and Cheney has said that she would focus on helping a Democratic candidate defeat Trump if she chooses not to run.
Politico
Cheney is making the rounds speaking to media outlets as she promotes her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning. Cheney maintains that she is still a conservative and a constitutionalist, and believes that Trump is an "existential" threat to the GOP, the nation, and the entire world.
Guardian

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The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

Liz Cheney understands the existential threat that Donald Trump poses to American and global democracy and has committed to stopping him even if it means opposing her own party. Cheney is a rare breed in modern politics and a servant of the Constitution. While Cheney, and her father, certainly have committed their fair share of blunders in the past, the former representative is committed to saving American democracy. After the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol, American leaders had to pick a side, and Liz Cheney chose the side of democracy.

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Pro-Trump narrative

Liz Cheney is at best irrelevant, and at worst, she is a complicit war criminal and face of the wretched Washington establishment. Republican voters have rightfully abandoned Cheney and her neocon policies, so she has resorted to defaming former Pres. Trump on liberal media outlets. Cheney has been lying about Trump and insulting his supporters for nearly three years. The left ironically despises her for her support of "endless wars" and the right has rejected her for being a feature of swampish Beltway politics. Any campaign bid she makes is certain to fall flat.

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