{"id":129334,"date":"2022-08-17T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129334"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:26:19","slug":"liz-cheney-loses-primary-bid-by-more-than-30-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129334","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney loses primary bid by more than 30 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RINO-retiring-and-primaried-out-20220816-Republicans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RINO-retiring-and-primaried-out-20220816-Republicans-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RINO-retiring-and-primaried-out-20220816-Republicans-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RINO-retiring-and-primaried-out-20220816-Republicans-500x305.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RINO-retiring-and-primaried-out-20220816-Republicans.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In her concession speech, Liz Cheney declared the intent to start an organization with the aim of preventing Donald Trump from becoming president again. In an interview on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show&#8221;, Liz Cheney said that the Republican Party should go back to its roots and that the party has focused on Trump and the associated &#8220;cult of personality&#8221;. The organization&#8217;s name is from a phrase in the Gettysburg Address.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cheney noted that in the past, she had garnered more than 70% of the votes in her district&#8217;s primary, and that &#8220;the path to that same victory would have been very easy,&#8221; but she felt it was more important to focus on her opposition to Trump. Those efforts, which include her work on the Democrat-led House January 6 Committee, led to Trump backing Hageman in the primary race. With 99% of votes counted early Wednesday morning, Hageman led Cheney by more than 37 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no political office that&#8217;s more important than the principles that we take an oath to defend,&#8221; Cheney said, seemingly regretting nothing about her decision to focus on Trump instead of local issues.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, Cheney said she will resume her work in the House until her term ends, and that she and her organization will continue to go after Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that defeating him is going to require a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents. And that&#8217;s what I intend to be part of,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney holds Trump directly responsible for the Capitol riot that took place on Jan. 6, 2021, at one point in the interview saying that &#8220;Trump attacked the Capitol,&#8221; then amending that to say that he &#8220;sent a mob to attack the Capitol.&#8221; The former president&#8217;s defenders point to how Trump said in a speech that day that protesters of the election results should remain peaceful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has additional information on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/after-landslide-primary-defeat-liz-cheney-announces-new-anti-trump-group-says-shes-thinking-about-wh-bid\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her concession speech, Liz Cheney declared the intent to start an organization with the aim &hellip; <a title=\"Liz Cheney loses primary bid by more than 30 points\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129334\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liz Cheney loses primary bid by more than 30 points<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}