House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, said she is not ruling out a potential presidential bid in 2024 and declared that some of her colleagues should be disqualified over their role in the January 6 attack against the US Capitol.
“I’m not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time,” she told The New York Post at a Republican retreat in Orlando, Florida, when asked if she would ever consider running in the future.
Cheney, who has made no secret of her opinion that the insurrection at the US Capitol was incited by then-President Donald Trump and some of his allies in Congress, took that criticism a step further as she discussed the 2024 Republican field.
“I think we have a huge number of interesting candidates, but I think that we’re going to be in a good position to be able to take the White House,” Cheney said, according to the New York Post. “I do think that some of our candidates who led the charge, particularly the senators who led the unconstitutional charge, not to certify the election, you know, in my view, that’s disqualifying.”
She added: “I think that adherence to the Constitution, adherence to your oath has got to be at the top of the list. So, I think, you know that certainly will be a factor that I’m looking at and I think a number of voters will be looking at as they decide about ’24.”
Cheney is making clear that she believes that anyone who voted for — or supported — the objections to the Electoral College count early this year simply cannot be seriously considered as future leaders of the party.
Of course, that covers a WHOLE lot of people. After all, almost 150 Republicans — 139 House Members and eight senators — voted to object to the Electoral College certification in Pennsylvania, Arizona or both.
But since Cheney specifically mentioned the senators who voted to object to the results, here they are:
* Josh Hawley (Missouri)
* Ted Cruz (Texas)
* Tommy Tuberville (Alabama)
* Rick Scott (Florida)
* Roger Marshall (Kansas)
* John Kennedy (Louisiana)
* Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi)
* Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming)
Three of those eight have 2024 ambitions: Scott, Hawley and Cruz.
