When Will Liz Cheney Announce A 2024 Run?

By Mark Gruber | Thursday, 18 August 2022 08:30 PM
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Following the defeat in her primary race for Wyoming’s at-large House seat, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that she will contemplate whether to launch a presidential bid for 2024 “in the coming months,” possibly teeing up a battle between former President Donald Trump and his most vocal critic.

“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” she said during an appearance on NBC's Today show Wednesday morning.

“That's a decision that I'm going to make in the coming months. I'm not going to make any announcements here this morning, but it is something that I am thinking about."

The Wyoming Republican converted her campaign committee into a leadership PAC, filing to rename it "The Great Task" in the early hours of Wednesday morning, which would let her allocate roughly $7 million in funds for a potential bid for higher office.

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Cheney suggested at a run during her concession speech, which aimed at Trump’s approach and role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, highlighting that President Abraham Lincoln lost races before becoming president.

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“The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all. Lincoln ultimately prevailed. He saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history,” she said.

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“Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task remaining before us, Lincoln said that ‘we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and the government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from this Earth.’ As we meet here tonight, that remains our greatest and most important task,” she added.

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The political scion, who saw a rapid rise in the House prior to Trump-allied colleagues ousting her from her leadership position over her repeated rebukes of Trump, prompted rigor criticism for first suggesting an interest in potentially running and asserting she believes lawmakers who voted against certifying the election results should be disqualified from becoming the GOP nominee during the 2021 House GOP retreat in Orlando.

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“I’m not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time,” she told the New York Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future at the time.

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During Wednesday's interview, Cheney took a swing at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), one of her most open critics who is preparing to become the next speaker of the House, claiming that he is not suited for the leadership position due to his support of Trump.

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