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Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney stated she believes a GOP majority within the Home in 2025 would current a “menace” to the nation.
“I imagine very strongly in these ideas and beliefs which have outlined the Republican Occasion, however the Republican Occasion of at this time has made a selection they usually haven’t chosen the Structure. And so I do suppose it presents a menace if the Republicans are within the majority in January 2025,” Cheney stated in an interview that aired on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Cheney, who represented Wyoming in Congress from 2017 to 2023, stated present Home Speaker Mike Johnson was “completely” a collaborator within the effort to overthrow the 2020 election and he shouldn’t be speaker in 2025.
“He can’t be. We face a state of affairs with respect to the 2024 election the place it’s an existential disaster. And now we have to make sure that we don’t have a state of affairs the place the election that could be thrown into the Home of Representatives is overseen by a Republican majority,” she stated.
If no presidential candidate can attain 270 or extra Electoral School votes, the election would go to the Home of Representatives, the place every state’s delegation is granted a single vote. Two presidents have been selected by the House: Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams.
Cheney, who referred to as Johnson as soon as a “good buddy,” stated that after the 2020 election the Louisiana Republican “was keen again and again to disregard the rulings of the courts, to disregard what state and federal courts had accomplished and stated in regards to the elections in these states in an effort to try and do Donald Trump’s bidding.”
In her new ebook set to launch Tuesday, Cheney points a robust rebuke of the Republican Occasion, its management and Trump, who she calls “essentially the most harmful man ever to inhabit the Oval Workplace,” in accordance with a copy of “Oath and Honor” obtained by CNN.
She writes in her ebook that Johnson “appeared particularly inclined to flattery from Trump and aspired to being wherever in Trump’s orbit.”
Cheney served a outstanding position as vice chair of the Home’s January 6 committee, which uncovered important particulars about Trump’s makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
She has vowed to do no matter is critical to cease Trump from returning to the White Home, together with leaving open the door to a 2024 presidential run herself. If Trump is the social gathering’s nominee, Cheney has stated she is going to go away the GOP.
“What I imagine is the trigger of our time is that we not turn out to be numb that we perceive the warning indicators that we perceive the hazard and … that we ignore partisan politics to cease him,” Cheney instructed CBS.
CNN’s Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart contributed to this report.