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Liz Cheney

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Liz Cheney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. During her time in Congress, Cheney was known for her strong stance on national security and her opposition to former President Donald Trump, particularly following the events of January 6, 2021, which led to her being removed from her leadership position within the House Republican Conference.

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May 10, 2021

The election is over. That is the rule of law. That is our constitutional process.

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May 10, 2021

I am a conservative Republican and the most conservative of conservative principles is reverence for the rule of law.

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May 10, 2021

The Electoral College has voted. More than 60 State and Federal courts, including multiple judges the former President appointed have rejected his claims. The Trump Department of Justice investigated the former President's claims of…

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May 10, 2021

I will not sit back and watch in silence, while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former President's crusade to undermine our democracy.

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May 10, 2021

The former President ... risks inciting further violence. He continues to undermine our democratic process. More than 60 judges have rejected his claims. The election is over. That is our rule of law.

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May 10, 2021

Today, America is on the cusp of another Cold War, this time with Communist China. Attacks against our democratic process and the rule of law empower our adversaries and feed communist propaganda that American democracy is a failure.

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May 10, 2021

We must speak the truth. Our election was not stolen and America has not failed.

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May 10, 2021

Our freedom only survives if we protect it, if we honor our oath taken before God in this chamber to support and defend the Constitution, if we recognize threats to freedom when they arise.

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May 9, 2021

Liz Cheney expects the vote to go against her and has from the very beginning. But Liz Cheney is in this for the war. She is going to keep campaigning, she feels this is about democracy, about the future, and about making sure that Donald…

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May 9, 2021

I believe in something so strongly that you can use me as an example, and do whatever -- do whatever you want.

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May 9, 2021

Somebody who has provoked an attack on the United States Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in five people dying, who refused to stand up immediately when he was asked and stop the violence.

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May 5, 2021

The Republican Party is at a turning point. Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution.

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May 5, 2021

I am a conservative Republican and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law, at the heart of our Republic is a commitment to the peaceful transfer of power among political rivals in accordance with the…

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May 5, 2021

History is watching, if we`re not going to be able to be truthful with voters, if Republican candidates and elected leaders are not going to be able to be truthful about what happened in the election, then really, where are we?

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May 5, 2021

Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work, confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this.

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May 4, 2021

Trump repeats these words now with full knowledge of exactly this type of language provoked violence on January 6th, and its Justice Department and multiple Federal Judges have suggested there's good reason to believe that Trump's language…

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May 4, 2021

I am committed to doing that no matter what the consequences are.

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May 4, 2021

it's a continuing attack on democracy.

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May 4, 2021

steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality

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May 4, 2021

This is about whether the Republican Party is going to perpetuate lies about the 2020 election and attempt to whitewash what happened on January 6. Liz will not do that. That is the issue.

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May 4, 2021

President Trump claimed for months that the election was stolen and then apparently set about to do everything he could to steal it himself.

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May 4, 2021

She`s done nothing wrong other than to acknowledge what every other American out who participated in and watch the election of 2020 know to be true that Donald Trump lost.

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May 4, 2021

The question before us now is whether we will join Trump's crusade to de-legitimize and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election, with all the consequences that might have.

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May 4, 2021

We should not lie to the American people.

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May 4, 2021

They know it`s not true, because the Attorney General said that the former Attorney General, Attorney General Barr, who was a staunch advocate for former President Trump said he did not find any massive voter fraud.

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