Liz Cheney refuses to call herself a Republican: “I’m a conservative”

Former republican deputy Liz Cheney she refused to call herself a Republican, choosing instead to label herself a “conservative” and rejected the idea that she was a member of “Donald Trump’s Republican Party”.

Cheney, the former chairman of the House GOP Conference and a lifelong member of the Republican Party, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and has resigned from him. to endorse the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in September.

Cheney appeared on NBC News Meet the press Sunday with the host Kristen Welker, who pressed her about her status now that she had publicly endorsed the Democratic nominee.

Welker asked, “Congressman, do you still consider yourself a Republican and can you tell us about the conversation you had with your father when he decided to vote for Kamala Harris?”

“I’m a conservative,” Cheney replied.

“A Republican?” pressed the host.

The ex-congressman repeated his answer: “I’m conservative. I don’t consider myself a member of Donald Trump’s Republican party.”

Moving on to Welker’s second question about his father, From Dick Cheney decision to also vote Democrat this election, despite having served under the Republican president by George W. Bush As vice president, Cheney said: “You know, my father and I talk every day, and really, you know, from the beginning of this process he understood as much as I did, even more so at the beginning probably, the threat that he poses Donald Trump, and so, you know, that was no surprise at all.”

She continued: “And look, I think the fact that it’s not just him, but the number of senior officials, national security advisers, secretaries of defense that you’ve seen who served in the Trump administration who say that this man is unfit, and the Republicans can try all they want to get people to ignore it, to look away, but I think it’s a very important thing for voters to recognize.”

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