Is Liz Cheney planning on running for president in the 2024 elections for the Republican Party?

Liz Cheney has been a staunch critic of Donald Trump and the extremist-wing of the Republican party. She was one of ten House Republicans that voted to impeach the former president for his role inciting an insurrection. For that she was removed as the House GOP Conference Chair, the Number Three leadership position, and was kicked out of the Wyoming Republican party.

She along with then-fellow GOP House member Adam Kinzinger worked with Democrats on the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th assault on the US Capitol, the infamous day when Trump supporters attacked and invaded the seat of the US government. While he retired from Congress, she was primaried and lost to a Trump acolyte.

However, that has not stopped either of them from talking out about the “clear and present danger” Trump, his allies and supporters present to American democracy. On Sunday, speaking to CNN’s State of the Union, Cheney called Trump “the single most dangerous threat we face.”

Asked if she would run for president, she didn’t rule it out.

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Is Liz Cheney planning on running for president in the 2024 elections?

Cheney was asked by State of the Union host Jake Tapper if she would vote for President Biden. “We’re going to see what happens,” Cheney responded. ‘We’re going to see how things unfold.”

“I think Donald Trump is the single most dangerous threat we face. I would imagine that there will be a number of other candidates in the race,” she was saying when Tapper inquired if she would be one of them. She initially sidestepped the question instead explaining that everything possible needs to be done to avoid the possibility of Trump returning to the White House.

“I will tell you what I’m definitely going to do. I’m going to spend the next year, between now and the election, certainly helping to elect serious people, helping to elect sane people to Congress,” said Cheney. Those efforts will be for people from either party.

“Because we could well find ourselves in a situation, given what we know the Trump folks are doing, in terms of attempting to question the results of the election,” she explained. “We don’t want a situation where the election is thrown into the House of Representatives and Donald Trump has any possibility at all of prevailing under those circumstances.”

“So, we have got to elect people who believe in the Constitution and who take their responsibility seriously to Congress,” Cheney continued.

However, when pressed on throwing her own hat in the ring for Commander in Chief: “But you’re not ruling out a presidential run?” Tapper asked. “No, I’m not,” she responded.

Will Liz Cheney run for president in the 2024 elections for the Republican Party?

The Republican primary season will kick off 15 January 2024 with the Iowa caucuses, but the race has been under way for months already. Trump is currently by far the front runner with a more than 40-point lead on his nearest rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Of likely Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, 46 percent consider themselves “MAGA Republicans” according to the Des Moines Register. Only 23 percent say that they are anti-Trump.

Cheney is despised among the MAGA-wing of the GOP which consider her a traitor for voting to impeach the former president and serving on the Jan. 6 Select Committee. Were she to make a run for the presidency in 2024 it would most likely have to be as an independent. That is unless some unforeseen turn of fate saw her former party making her its standard bearer.