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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Liz Cheney: “Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.”
Liz Cheney
Official portrait, 2018
Vice Chair of the House January 6 Committee
In office September 2, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Position abolished
Chair of the House Republican Conference
In office January 3, 2019 – May 12, 2021
Leader Kevin McCarthy
Vice Chair Mark Walker Mike Johnson
Preceded by Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Succeeded by Elise Stefanik
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming’s at-large district
In office January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2023
Preceded by Cynthia Lummis
Succeeded by Harriet Hageman
Personal details
Born
Elizabeth Lynne Cheney
July 28, 1966 (age 58) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse
Philip Perry
(m. 1993)
Children 5
Parents
  • Dick Cheney
  • Lynne Vincent
Relatives Mary Cheney (sister)
Alma mater Colorado College (BA) University of Chicago (JD)
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Elizabeth Lynne Cheney (/ˈni/; born July 28, 1966) is an American attorney and politician. She represented Wyoming’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, and served as chair of the House Republican Conference—the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership—from 2019 to 2021. Cheney is known for her vocal opposition to former president Donald Trump. As of March 2023, she is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Cheney is the elder daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney and second lady Lynne Cheney. She held several positions in the U.S. State Department during the George W. Bush administration. She promoted regime change in Iran while chairing the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group with Elliott Abrams. In 2009, Cheney and Bill Kristol founded Keep America Safe, a nonprofit organization concerned with national security issues that supported the Bush–Cheney administration’s positions. In 2014 she was briefly a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming, challenging incumbent Mike Enzi before withdrawing. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016, holding the same seat her father had held from 1979 to 1989. Regarded as a leading ideological neoconservative in the Bush–Cheney tradition as well as representative of the Republican establishment, Cheney is known for her pro-business stances and hawkish foreign policy views. She was once considered one of the leaders of the Republican Party’s neoconservative wing, and was critical of the foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration while consistently voting in favor of Trump’s overall agenda. Cheney supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump following the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Following her impeachment vote and criticism of Donald Trump, pro-Trump members of the House Republican Conference attempted to remove her from party leadership. In a second attempt, this time with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy supporting her removal, Cheney was removed from her position in May 2021. In July 2021, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Cheney to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Two months later, she was made vice chair of the committee. As a consequence of her service on the Select Committee, Cheney’s membership in the Wyoming Republican Party was revoked in November 2021. She was censured by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in February 2022. In 2022, Cheney lost renomination in Wyoming’s Republican primary to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman in a landslide, garnering just 28.9% of the vote. Cheney has said that she intends to be “the leader, one of the leaders, in a fight to help to restore” the Republican Party. She later endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

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