Liz Cheney’s resounding election defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party.
As the House convened for a moment of silence, Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood almost alone on the Republican side of the House floor.“Liz Cheney represents the Republican Party as it used to be. ... All of that is gone now,” said Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center.
Whether she runs or not, her belief that Trump poses a danger to democracy is a conviction that runs deep in her family.Trump is purging the Republican Party, ridding it of dissenters like Cheney and others who dare to defy him, shifting the coast-to-coast GOP landscape and the makeup of Congress.including Cheney who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, at the Capitol, only two remain candidates for re-election.
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said at the time, announcing her vote to impeach. On Fox News, conservative author Charlie Kirk called Tuesday's election a “mass repudiation” of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era. And many of the new GOP candidates for Congress are also election deniers, according to a tally by Democrats.
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