{"id":1753912,"date":"2022-11-28T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753912"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:32:32","slug":"j6-democrats-sour-on-cheney-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j6-democrats-sour-on-cheney-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"J6 Democrats Sour On \u2018Cheney 2024\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj6-democrats-sour-on-cheney-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Liz Cheney was always using the House Jan. 6 Select Committee as her vehicle for the White House. Democrats are just now beginning to acknowledge the strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, more than a dozen current and former staffers on the politicized probe condemned Cheney\u2019s influence over the finalized report, which is expected to be published in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJan. 6 panel staffers angry at Cheney for focusing so much of report on Trump,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/23\/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined <\/a>the story from The Washington Post. \u201cNow, less than six weeks before the conclusion of the committee\u2019s work, Cheney\u2019s influence over the committee\u2019s final report has rankled many current and former committee staff,\u201d the paper reported. \u201cThey are angered and disillusioned by Cheney\u2019s push to focus the report primarily on former president Donald Trump, and have bristled at the committee morphing into what they have come to view as the vehicle for the outgoing Wyoming lawmaker\u2019s political future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One anonymous former staffer complained the committee was hijacked to become Cheney\u2019s launchpad for a presidential run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,\u201d the former staffer told the Post. \u201cBut when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s efforts to steer the committee as its vice chair, however, were always about her own presidential aspirations. In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, Cheney sought to capitalize on the Never Trump fervor ever present in Washington and led a futile effort to co-opt House Republicans into joining the Democrats\u2019 snap impeachment of the outgoing president. Only nine ultimately crossed party lines with the Wyoming lawmaker, and only <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/with-cheneys-loss-just-2-house-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-are-on-the-ballot-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two <\/a>of those will be returning to Congress next year. The rest, including Cheney, either lost primaries to Trump-endorsed opponents or forwent re-election efforts altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Months later, Cheney survived a referendum on her role as Republican conference chair in the lower chamber. She then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/12\/house-republicans-boot-warmonger-liz-cheney-from-party-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost <\/a>her No. 3 perch in House leadership by a second referendum held in the spring after she continued to undermine the Republican agenda with a prolonged feud against the former president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exploited the Republican fracture on Capitol Hill by appointing Cheney as vice chair of the hand-picked panel to probe the Jan. 6 riot, with an emphasis on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney knew her work on the committee would likely throw her out of office, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did<\/a>. In 2020, Trump carried Wyoming by a larger margin than any other state in the country. Last November, the Wyoming Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/wyoming-gop-no-longer-recognizes-liz-cheney-as-a-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> no longer to recognize Cheney as a Republican. So seeking a fourth term, Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/23\/liz-cheney-is-begging-democrats-to-save-her-career-in-upcoming-wyoming-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">courted <\/a>the state\u2019s Democrats to change their party registration to participate in the closed-party contest. By August, Cheney finished the race with millions left unspent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/candidate\/H6WY00159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transferred<\/a> it to a political action committee as the soon-to-be-ex-congresswoman pursues higher office. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney ultimately lost by 37 points, a margin that would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Cheney was always using the House Jan. 6 Select Committee as her vehicle for the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1753915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}