Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took aim at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) as part of an interview with The New York Times that came out this past Sunday where she also claimed that she liked to work alongside her Democrat colleagues much more than she enjoys working with her Republican ones.
Cheney claimed that she “would find it very difficult” to stand in support of DeSantis through a general election against any Democrat if DeSantis did end up being the GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential elections.
“I think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that’s very dangerous,” expressed Cheney.
Cheney also expressed even further that she much prefers to work with the Democrat women throughout Congress than the Republican women.
“I would much rather serve with Mikie Sherrill and Chrissy Houlahan and Elissa Slotkin than Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, even though on substance certainly I have big disagreements with the Democratic women I just mentioned,” stated Cheney. “But they love this country, they do their homework and they are people that are trying to do the right thing for the country.”
The new report highlighted that Cheney’s odds of continuing in her current seat through the upcoming primary election next week are almost zero as various polls highlight that Cheney is losing to her current primary challenger, Harriet Hageman, by well over 20 points.
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Recently, Cheney expressed to CNN that she does not expect to lose in the upcoming primary race but that her losing may end up being the cost that she goes through for trying to stand up to Trump.
“If the cost of standing up for the Constitution is losing the House seat, then that’s a price I’m willing to pay,” claimed Cheney.
Various Republicans who might agree with Cheney’s goals have claimed that she is going about this with her methods in all of the wrong ways.
“It depends on if you want to go out in a blaze of glory and be ineffective or if you want to try to be effective,” explained n. John Cornyn (R-TX). “I respect her but I wouldn’t have made the same choice.”
DeSantis himself went off on Cheney back in mid-February due to her work in putting targets on those in her own party by working alongside Democrats with the January 6 committee.
“Cheney is totally off the rails with her nonsense,” explained the Governor. “And I think she’s not really a Republican in terms of what she’s doing. We want people that are going to fight the left. And that’s what we need to do in this country.”
“That’s what we’re doing in Florida, standing up for people’s freedoms,” continued DeSantis. “We’re opposing wokeness. We’re opposing all these things. To act like the main issue in this country is things that happened over a year ago, I can tell you in Florida that’s not what Floridians are concerned about. They’re concerned about inflation and gas prices.”
“So I think focusing on the issues and showing that we stand for things that matter to people is the way forward,” finished DeSantis. “To have a vendetta against Donald Trump and to constantly be bringing this up is just not something that I think Republican voters are interested in.”