Liz Cheney "thinks" of running for the White House and will do "whatever it takes" to stop Trump: "It's a risk for the country"

By Rebecca

After her defeat in the primaries held on Tuesday in Wyoming, Republican Liz Cheney will not be able to stand in the November elections to renew her seat in the House of Representatives, but this Wednesday she explained that she plans to be part of a bipartisan coalition whose objective is to guarantee that former President Donald Trump never returns to the White House.

“I think he continues to represent a very serious threat and risk to the republic.

And I think defeating him is going to take a broad, united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and that's what I intend to be a part of," she said in her exclusive interview with NBC

show host Savannah Guthrie .

He reiterated that he will do "whatever it takes" to prevent Trump from returning to the Oval Office in the next presidential election.

Cheney, in Congress on June 28.

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Cheney, who chaired the House Republican Conference and is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, lost the Republican primary to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman by more than 30 points in Wyoming.

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Cheney said from his home in Jackson that to win he would have had to "perpetuate the big lie" that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and that Trump was the winner, which is false.

Asked if he plans to run for president, he first argued that the GOP needs to go in a different direction.

“Now we have an important political party, my party, that has really surrendered to the cult of personality, and what we must do is for that party to once again uphold its founding values ​​and principles,” he declared.

Pressed again on her possible presidential candidacy, Cheney responded: "That's a decision I'll be making in the next few months, and I'm not going to make any announcements here this morning, but it's something I'm thinking of doing."

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Asked if he thinks Democrats should retain control of Congress because of the state the GOP is in, Cheney suggested that would be preferable to the possibility that politicians who deny the validity of the 2020 election will come to occupy positions of popular election.

"The ones denying the election results right now are the Republicans, and I think it shouldn't matter what party you're from, no one should vote for people who support or endorse them," he said.

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Cheney said the Republican Party is "in very bad shape" and that "it could take several election cycles" before it reforms and distances itself from Trump and what he described as a cult of personality around the former president.

And she claimed that Trump released the names of the FBI agents involved in the search of his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida despite knowing that "they are targets of violence."

"Of course I'm going to continue this battle," she said, "it's the most important thing I've ever been involved in, and I think it's the most important challenge our nation has faced in recent history, and maybe since the War." Civil.

And it is a battle that we must win.”