US Rep. Liz Cheney on Jan.6 US capitol riot: Candidates who deny legitimacy of 2020 election should not get voter support

on the Wyoming ballot

We know of at least two election deniers the woman

that defeated you in the primary and the uh gentleman

by the name of chuck Gray running for secretary of

state

I assume they did not earn your vote

No they will not

And I think no one of any party should be

voting for people who are election deniers

And I think we have to be clear what it

means to be an election denier

It means in the case for example of Kerry Lake

and Mark Finchem in Arizona

They have both said we've looked at all of the

fat We've looked at the results of the election in

2020

We've looked at the law we've looked at the fact

that these the courts all ruled against uh Donald Trump

We've looked at the audits and the recounts were willing

to ignore all of that

And we are saying we would not have certified that

election

They're telling you that they'll only certify an election they

agree with and that that there's there's not much graver

threat to democracy than you can imagine this this win

it whatever it takes to win winning trumps everything

How do you how do you blow that up in

the party Well I think you've got to remind people

that everybody has an obligation uh an obligation to defend

the constitution an obligation to do what's right And so

right now you've got a lot of republicans in particular

democrats do the same thing

It just happens that our candidates are more dangerous right

now

Um but you have got a lot of republicans who

are saying you know what I just I'm going to

ignore um the threat posed by a former president who

attempted to use force to stop to overturn an election

to stop the count of electoral votes

I'm gonna ignore that

I'm gonna ignore these people who embrace him

I'm going to ignore the danger and I'm just gonna

focus on the near term

Is the republican party going to prevail I think obviously

the idea that we could simply ignore donald trump and

the threat would go away uh is clearly wrong

And I think that uh you know the leader McConnell

and Leader McCarthy obviously have taken slightly different approaches to

Donald trump Leader McCarthy is embracing him

Leader McConnell has thought we can ignore him uh and

and go forward as a party without him continuing to

have uh power and authority

That's clearly not the case

And my view from the beginning has been uh you

know we have to as a party reject insurrection we

have to reject what he stands for

I don't think this is an issue about which you

can make a political calculation

I think it matters too much

So clearly you know leader McConnell and I do not

see eye to eye on or is the committee open

to his supposed offer at least behind the scenes offer

of going on live television

So the committee uh treats this matter with great seriousness

and we are going to proceed in terms of the

questioning of the former president under oath

It may take multiple days uh and it will be

done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness

that it deserves

We are not going to allow the former president he's

not going to turn this into a circus

This isn't gonna be you know his first debate against

joe biden and the circus and the food fight that

that became this

This is far too serious set of issues

And we've made clear exactly what his obligations are

And and we're proceeding uh with with that set out

Donald Trump ends up the nominee in 2024

You've said you're not gonna be a Republican anymore

So it implies you think the Republican Party can be

saved

I think that the um party has either got to

come back from where we are right now which is

a very dangerous and toxic place or the party will

splinter and there will be a new Conservative party that

rises

And if Donald trump is the nominee of the Republican

Party the party will shatter and there will be a