Rep. LIZ CHENEY is wasting no time beginning the next phase of her bid to prevent DONALD TRUMP’s return to office.
“In coming weeks, Liz will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” Cheney spokesperson JEREMY ADLER tells Playbook exclusively.
The new group, which will serve as Cheney’s primary political vehicle as she considers whether to run for president in 2024, does not have an official name yet. An informed guess: The Great Task, which was the name of Cheney’s final ad of the campaign. The phrase is from the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address, and Cheney also referenced it in her concession speech from Jackson, Wyo., last night.
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WHAT SHE LOST VS. WHAT SHE GAINED — Cheney lost her seat but gained something else: She is now the undisputed leader of the Trump opposition.
The competition wasn’t very stiff.
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Cheney has stepped into this anti-Trump vacuum.
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The market for a compelling foil to Trump is enormous. With Republicans cowed into silence by him, and Democrats guided by strategists who are ambivalent about nationalizing the midterms around him, Cheney has the Trump-hating — and Trump-addicted — slice of the attention economy all to herself. She clearly intends to use it. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, doing hardship duty from Jackson, notes that James Goldston, the former TV news executive who produced the Jan. 6 hearings, was at Cheney’s campaign event in Jackson with a film crew.
So rather than a kamikaze mission, her primary loss may have been more like parachuting out of a plane that had outlived its usefulness. Her great task now is figuring out where to land.
While many analysts scoff at the idea of a Cheney presidential run, David Siders reminds us again of what can happen in a big field. “In a presidential election decided at the margins, that” — Cheney’s roughly 30% of the GOP primary vote — “might be enough in some swing states to keep Trump out of the White House,” he writes. “Not enough for Cheney to win, but enough to drag him down.”
“That,” Republican strategist MIKE MADRID tells Siders, “is the best way to stop him from becoming president.”
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Liz Cheney already has her next move in mind following her defeat in yesterday's primary.
She'll be launching an org "to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” her spokesperson told Playbook exclusively.https://t.co/10PBAMynlA
— POLITICO (@politico) August 17, 2022
"The general feeling among Republicans I spoke with is that the RNC would go to almost absurd lengths to avoid allowing Cheney on the same debate stage as Trump."
Sharp @RonBrownstein look at possible Cheney 2024 bid and how GOP would work to prevent it:https://t.co/n7zFXNzHm8
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 17, 2022
Liz will be fine. And Wyoming voters will rue the day they ditched Liz for that awful Harriet.
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