Cheney, Liz
Liz Cheney and the Fate of the 10 Republicans Who Defied Trump
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump over the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, will face Republican primary voters on Tuesday. Mr. Trump made it his vengeful mission to force these Republicans out of Congress. And he has largely been successful: Seven […]
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Liz Cheney Is Ready to Lose. But She’s Not Ready to Quit.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — It was just over a month before her primary, but Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming was nowhere near the voters weighing her future. Ms. Cheney was instead huddled with fellow lawmakers and aides in the Capitol complex, bucking up her allies in a cause she believes is more important than her House […]
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Dick Cheney Excoriates Trump in an Ad for His Daughter Liz Cheney
A new advertisement for Representative Liz Cheney’s re-election campaign features a leader of a bygone era in the Republican Party excoriating the leader of the current one. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual that was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Ms. Cheney’s father, former Vice President […]
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Liz Cheney Is Prepared to Lose Power, and It Shows
If you start clicking these binaries together, you can trace logical paths to wildly different arguments about the current path out of these problems. An emphasis on structure, on Mr. Trump as the product of our system and the saturation of election denial as a reflection on that system, can take you everywhere from the […]
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In Jan. 6 Hearings, Gender Divide Has Been Strong Undercurrent
WASHINGTON — Before Sarah Matthews, a former deputy White House press secretary, even opened her mouth to testify on Thursday before the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, the House Republican Conference attacked her on Twitter as a “liar” and a “pawn” of Democrats. The group did not mention the man […]
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The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV
Every new summer TV series has to fight to get attention. The Jan. 6 hearings had more challenges than most. There was public exhaustion and media jadedness over a story that’s been in the news for a year and a half. There was the MAGA echo chamber that has primed a huge chunk of America […]
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Liz Cheney, Front and Center in the Jan. 6 Hearings, Pursues a Mission
All of which has made for a strange-bedfellows alliance with Democrats who agree with her on little other than her disdain for Mr. Trump. She understands perfectly well why they want her out front, that a Republican face is useful to them. But she has come to believe that the Democrats she is working with […]
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Cassidy Hutchinson: Why the Jan. 6 Committee Rushed Her Testimony
WASHINGTON — The day before Cassidy Hutchinson was deposed for a fourth time by the Jan. 6 committee, the former Trump White House aide received a phone message that would dramatically change the plans of the panel and write a new chapter in American politics. On that day in June, the caller told Ms. Hutchinson, […]
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Liz Cheney’s Latest Fans: Democratic Donors
WASHINGTON — As one of the nation’s biggest Democratic donors, the film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg helped make Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton into Hollywood darlings. But this year, he is backing a surprise candidate: Representative Liz Cheney, the staunchly conservative Wyoming Republican. “We agree on little, if anything,” Mr. Katzenberg said in an interview. “But […]
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