Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney did not shut down the possibility of a future run for president only a day after her caucus voted to remove her from a leadership position.
Cheney, who was removed as the conference chairwoman after her repeated swipes at former President Donald Trump, was asked three times by NBC News’s Savannah Guthrie if she’d run for president if it meant keeping the former president out of the Oval Office in the future.
Cheney first called the potential for Trump to win another term “the most important issue that we are facing right now as a country,” claiming he is “unfit” for office after he has refused to concede the election and has repeated and promoted a litany of conspiracy theories claiming the election was rigged against him.
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“I’m going to do everything that I can. Both to make sure that that never happens, but also to make sure that the Republican Party gets back to substance and policy,” Cheney added after Guthrie repeated the question.
After the anchor asked a third time, the lawmaker said, “Right now, I’m very focused on making sure that our party becomes again a party that stands for truth and stands for fundamental principles that are conservative. And mostly stands for the Constitution. And I won’t let a former president or anybody else unravel the democracy.”
The Wyoming congresswoman was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot. She survived a vote in February on whether she should retain her power in the caucus, winning it handily.
House Republicans have since said they were unhappy with her repeated bashing of the former president, leading to complaints that she was dividing the party and distracting from the goal of winning back the majority in 2022. Cheney was ousted on Wednesday during a vote in a closed-door, weekly meeting.
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The front-runner to replace Cheney, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, has the backing of top leaders Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, and Steve Scalise, the House minority whip.
