Liz Cheney Says She’s Thinking About Running for President After Primary Loss

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Aug. 17 she’s considering a run for president in 2024 after losing in the Republican primary for the seat she now holds.

“It is something that I’m thinking about,” Cheney said on NBC’s “Today” show.

“That’s a decision that I’m going to make in the coming months,” she also said.

Cheney was speaking after she lost in the GOP primary for Wyoming’s only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to Harriet Hageman.

Hageman, backed by former President Donald Trump, received over 113,000 votes, according to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. Cheney, who has become one of Trump’s fiercest critics, received about 49,300 votes.

In a victory speech in Cheyenne, Hageman told supporters that “Wyoming has spoken on behalf of everyone who is concerned that the game is becoming more and more rigged against them” and that voters showed “we can dislodge entrenched politicians who believe they’ve risen above the people they’re supposed to represent.”

Cheney lost despite reaching out to Democrats who have supported her efforts as vice chair of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Wyoming enables voters to switch parties to vote in primaries, known colloquially as crossover voting.

Cheney told supporters in Jackson that she could have won the primary if she had gone along with “President’s Trump lie about the 2020 election,” referring to Trump’s calling the election rigged.

“It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. That was a path I could not and would not take,” she said.

After results came in, Trump congratulated Hageman and said that Cheney “should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others.”

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