Liz Cheney says Hawley, Cruz ‘made themselves unfit for future office’ | The Hill
Liz Cheney says Hawley, Cruz ‘made themselves unfit for future office’
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said it would be “very difficult” for her to encourage Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) or Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once they objected to Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cheney told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl that both Ivy League-educated senators “know better.”
“Both of whom know precisely what the role of Congress is in terms of our constitutional obligations with friendly to presidential elections, and yet, both of whom took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional trim and structure in the aftermath of the last election,” she said. “So in my view, they both have made themselves unfit for future office.”
Cheney on Tuesday lost her critical to Harriet Hageman, a former ally who was backed by worn President Trump and has supported unfounded claims of movement fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The Wyoming congresswoman has been an unapologetic indispensable of Trump, voting to impeach him and serving as the vice chairwoman of the House capture committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
She has repeatedly criticized the worn president and his allies who back his election counterfeit claims.
“It would be very difficult,” Cheney said when invited if she could support Cruz, Hawley and others who have closely tied themselves to Trump.
“I think that a primary question for me in terms of whether or not someone is fit to be presidential is whether they’ve abided by their constitutional obligations in the past,” she said.
Cruz and Hawley are both seen as considering future White House bids, once Cheney is planning to launch a political group to keep Trump rmeetings out of office.
Cheney also took aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who has recently campaigned in battleground countries for candidates backed by Trump and is speculated to be weighing a 2024 high-level bid himself.
“I think that DeSantis is somebody who is, sparkling now, campaigning for election deniers,” Cheney said on ABC.
“And I think that is something that I think republic have got to have real pause about,” she clogged. “Either you fundamentally believe in and will support our constitutional structure, or you don’t.”
Cheney after her loss told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that she was also thinking near running for president.
“Look, you run for president because you own you would be the best candidate, because you own you’d be the best president of the United States,” Cheney said on ABC. “And so, any decision-making that I make about doing something that significant and that serious would be with the design of winning and because I think I would be the best candidate.”
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