By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican former U.S. Consultant Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump who co-chaired the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, stated she is weighing a third-party bid for the White Home in 2024.
In media interviews, Cheney stated she was contemplating operating for president subsequent yr as a third-party conservative candidate or on a bipartisan ticket that would come with each a Republican and a Democrat. She cited Trump as a menace to democracy and the USA.
“We face threats that could be existential to the United States, and we need a candidate who is going to be able to deal with and address and confront all of those challenges,” Cheney instructed the Washington Put up in remarks printed on Tuesday.
She stated she deliberate to determine on a run in coming months.
Cheney, 57, who misplaced her re-election bid in 2022 amid a tide of pro-Trump sentiment in her get together, served as the highest Republican on the Home committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol assault by Trump supporters who needed to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
She has saved her deal with the previous president, echoing Biden in saying that one other Trump presidency would threaten American democratic establishments.
“I happen to think democracy is at risk at home, obviously, as a result of Donald Trump’s continued grip on the Republican Party, and I think democracy is at risk internationally as well,” she instructed the Put up.
Cheney made comparable remarks in interviews with USA At the moment and MSNBC coinciding with the launch Tuesday of her memoir, “Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning.” She couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Regardless of Cheney’s political setbacks, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has deep roots within the Republican Celebration and has cultivated a nationwide community of donors that has enabled her to stockpile thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
Trump stays the frontrunner within the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination regardless of indictments in 4 state and federal felony circumstances, together with one in Washington over his function in efforts to overturn his 2020 loss.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has vowed to hold out reprisals in opposition to these he perceives to have wronged him if elected once more. Representatives for his marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
(This story has been corrected to vary the yr Cheney misplaced her re-election bid to 2022, from 2020, in paragraph 5)
