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Liz Cheney says she intends to win the primary election in Wyoming in August despite several polls showing her far behind her Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
The Republican at-large representative also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of mounting a run for president in 2024 when speaking with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl.
The pre-recorded interview, which aired Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week program, was the first with the January 6 select committee panel-member after a surprise hearing Tuesday that featured testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, 25, a former top aide to ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Despite a censure from the GOP in her state, Cheney is confident that she still has a chance in the primary elections.
‘I don’t intend to lose the republican primary in Wyoming,’ Cheney said when Karl asked what a loss would mean for her state and the party as it quickly split into pro- and anti-Trump factions.
‘How important is it that you win for that larger battle?’ the ABC reporter pushed.
‘I think it’s important because I will be the best representative that the people of Wyoming can have,’ she insisted.
‘The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump,’ Cheney added. ‘And I think that that matters to us as Americans more than anything else and that’s why my work on the Committee is so important and why it’s so important to not just brush this passed, I think it’s very important that people know the truth and that there are consequences.’
One poll from Club for Growth taken in May showed that Cheney is behind Hageman by 30 percentage points, while another poll from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates in June showed her trailing by 28 percent.
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