{"id":1958182,"date":"2023-06-27T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-slams-current-political-climate-were-electing-idiots\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:29:02","slug":"liz-cheney-slams-current-political-climate-were-electing-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-slams-current-political-climate-were-electing-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney criticizes political climate: &#8216;We choose foolish leaders&#8217;"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fliz-cheney-slams-current-political-climate-were-electing-idiots%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=1958182&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--><h2>Liz Cheney Criticizes Elected Leaders for Supporting Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Liz Cheney, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump and fellow Republican Party members continuing to support him as the 2024 GOP presidential candidate, launched a scathing criticism against elected leaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve done in our politics is create a situation where we\u2019re electing idiots,\u201d Cheney said Monday at an event at New York City&#8217;s Center for Culture and Arts focused on the future of bipartisanship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Cheney Discusses the Path of the Republican Party<\/h3>\n<p>Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, joined billionaire and philanthropist David Rubenstein to discuss the path of the Republican Party as the presidential field expands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at it through the lens of how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can\u2019t be partisan,\u201d Cheney said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney moved to impeach Trump and pressured other lawmakers to hold the former president accountable. Cheney was appointed to serve on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Once one of the highest-ranking Republican leaders in the chamber, Cheney lost her reelection to the House to represent Wyoming&#8217;s at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-longtime-vermont-rep-peter-welch-abandons-house-for-senate-bid\/\" title=\"Pelosi\u2019s Majority Crumbles: Longtime Vermont Rep. Peter Welch Abandons House for Senate Bid\">-large congressional district<\/a> in the 2022 primary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Cheney&#8217;s PAC Attacks Trump&#8217;s Capabilities for Office<\/h3>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marriott-att-airbnbheres-the-list-of-corporations-announcing-they-wont-donate-to-gop-lawmakers-who-objected-to-electoral-votes-from-contested-states\/\" title=\"Marriott, AT&#038;T, Airbnb\u2026Here\u2019s The List Of Corporations Announcing They Won\u2019t Donate To GOP Lawmakers Who Objected To Electoral Votes From Contested States\">political action committee<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-slams-current-political-climate-were-electing-idiots\/\" title=\"Liz Cheney criticizes political climate: 'We choose foolish leaders'\">recently increased measures<\/a> to attack Trump\u2019s capabilities for office, launching an ad in May focused on his refusal to accept his reelection defeat and footage of his followers at the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being removed from her GOP post, Cheney has hinted at a presidential run, saying at the Mackinac Policy Conference in Detroit this month that she has not ruled out a third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornel-west-launches-2024-presidential-campaign\/\" title=\"Cornel West runs for president in 2024.\">-party campaign bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Cheney, a prominent critic of ex-President Donald Trump and Republicans backing him for the 2024 GOP candidacy, slammed elected leaders, stating, &#8220;We&#8217;ve created a system where we elect fools.&#8221; Speaking at a New York City event, Cheney expressed her concerns about the state of politics and the caliber of those in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1958183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1958182","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}