Liz Cheney (R-WY), a former member of Congress, may no longer serve on Capitol Hill, but it hasn’t stopped her from advocating for the causes she believes in. Former Wyoming GOP leader is leveraging her remaining support to undermine the present campaign of her former party’s nominee, Donald Trump. In a new commercial, Cheney and her Leadership PAC, The Great Task, criticize Trump’s management of the upcoming 2020 presidential race.
New video by The Great Task, titled “Risk,” was uploaded on YouTube on May 9th. The commercial, which played in both New Hampshire and elsewhere, features imagery from January 6, 2021, showing Americans storming the Capitol building as Congress moves to ratify the 2020 election. In the voiceover describing the mayhem, Cheney says that Trump is the “only president in American history who has refused to guarantee the peaceful transfer of power.”
Cheney claims he intentionally deceived the American people at the time and did not do anything to stop the unlawful invasion of the US Capitol, during which police officers were treated disrespectfully. Over 700 people were detained, and the action caused over $1.5 million in damage to the structure. Cheney also stated, “there has never been a greater dereliction of duty by any president.”
Liz Cheney launches new ad in New Hampshire attacking Trump: "Donald Trump is a risk America can never take again" https://t.co/OuGRBE3pUR pic.twitter.com/Rf7O2fDLrQ
— The Hill (@thehill) May 9, 2023
Harriet Hageman, the newly elected US Representative from Wyoming, condemned this courageous stance taken against the 45th president. On Twitter, she accused Cheney of having a “personal vendetta against President Trump” and labeled the ad “ineffective.”
There is one person who Republican voters wish would go away, and it’s not Donald Trump. It’s Liz Cheney. In Wyoming, we rejected the idea that a woman from Virginia could tell us what we should think, and the voters of New Hampshire will do that too. Her personal vendetta…
— Harriet Hageman (@HagemanforWY) May 9, 2023
Although Cheney hasn’t declared any political aspirations for the upcoming election season, she does have a novel coming out this autumn titled “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.” She is now teaching at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
