Liz Cheney says she plans to fight election deniers who have been 'nominated for really important positions' across the US and will 'work to support their opponents'
Republican Liz Cheney says she will"be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything we can not to elect election deniers," after earlier promising to keep Donald Trump out of office.
Cheney told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley were "unfit" for office after they voted to overturn the presidential results. "We've got election deniers that have been nominated for really important positions all across the country. And I'm going to work against those people. I'm going to work to support their opponents."
As one of two Republicans on the House January 6 committee, Cheney has been able to draw a direct connection between the"Donald Trump is certainly the centre of the threat," Cheney said. "What he's created is a movement on some level that is post-truth." A Cruz spokesperson responded with a statement saying the senator does not want or need Cheney's endorsement.
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