Former Rep. Liz Cheney warned Americans that voting for former President Donald Trump might be the tip of democratic elections within the U.S.
“A Trump vote is not acceptable,” Ms. Cheney mentioned on NBC’s “Today Show” Monday. “I hope there are options and alternatives that reflect the important challenges that we’re facing, and that reflect leadership to meet those challenges, but that choice can never be Donald Trump because a vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in.”
She mentioned if Mr. Trump received a second time period he would refuse to depart workplace after the 4 years are up.
“There’s no question. Absolutely. He’s already done it once,” she mentioned. “He’s already attempted to seize power, and he was stopped, thankfully, and for the good of the nation and the republic. But he said he would do it again. He’s expressed no remorse for what he did.”
She has mentioned earlier than that the U.S. “is sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship.”
“People who say ‘well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted,” she mentioned on CBS Sunday morning.
The Wyoming Republican has been selling her new ebook “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.” In the ebook, she talks about Mr. Trump’s impression on the Republican Party and concerning the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.
“I don’t say that lightly, and I think it’s heartbreaking that that’s where we are, but people have to recognize that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote against the Constitution,” she mentioned on the NBC present.
Ms. Cheney, a longtime Republican, has been an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump. She mentioned on the present that she “will do whatever it takes to make sure that Donald Trump is defeated in 2024.”
Ms. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was one of many 9 House Republicans who voted to question Mr. Trump per week after the Jan. 6 riot. She additionally served as vice chair on the House choose committee that investigated the riot and concluded it was an tried coup by Mr. Trump.
She misplaced her election final yr to a Trump-backed candidate within the GOP main, Harriet Hageman, who went on to win the seat.
“It’s painful for me as someone who, you know, has spent their whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as Republican, to watch what’s happening to my party,” she mentioned, “and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has, you know, basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power, his success.”
