Cheney vows to keep certain Republican candidates out of office

US Representative Liz Cheney has vowed to oppose Republican candidates who back former President Donald Trump's claims about a stolen 2020 election that placed Joe Biden in office as the current US president.

Cheney, the daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, declared in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley were "unfit" for office after they voted to overturn the presidential results on January 6, 2021.  

Cheney is Trump's leading critic and vice chair of the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 violent protest march, which Trump has said represented "the greatest movement in the history” of the country.

The House select committee’s public hearings intend to put up a case against Trump that he was responsible for the January 6 riot, starting with knowingly spreading lies around the election, seeking to overturn the results, assembling the mob in the Capitol and failing to act to stop the violence.

Cheney told ABC's "This Week" that a broad movement of election denial could undermine the US constitutional order if left unchecked.

The Wyoming lawmaker said she will focus on keeping election deniers out of office after she lost her Republican primary race to a Trump-backed candidate.

She has already said she will spend the next two years trying to stop Trump from returning to the White House in 2024.

"I'm going to be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything we can not elect election deniers," Cheney said.

"We've got election deniers that have been nominated for really important positions all across the country. And I'm going to work against those people. I'm going to work to support their opponents."

She said that she will also aim to educate the Americans about the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.

“I’m also going to spend a lot of time doing everything I can to help educate the American people about what happened. And I think our hearings have been a tremendous contribution to that,” she said.

Trump has been casting doubt on the outcome of his loss by insisting it was the result of fraud. He has said that the 2020 presidential election was “the greatest Election Hoax in history.”

Trump’s claims have significantly delegitimatized the democratic process in the United States. A recent poll has found that at least 50 percent of Republican voters surveyed believe their vote will not be counted accurately the next time they cast a ballot.

Earlier, Cheney said in an interview that the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol was not a “false flag operation” orchestrated by American intelligence agencies in order to get rid of Trump.

Cheney likened the people who claim that it was indeed a “false flag operation” to those who say the September 11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job.”

9/11 was a series of strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage in the United States.

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts and independent researchers have raised questions about the official account.

They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as then-Vice President Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to expand funding for the US war machine and intelligence services and to advance the US geopolitical position in the Middle East.

Trump: January 6 'represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country'

Former US President Donald Trump says that the January 6, 2021 protest represented "the greatest movement in the history of our Country."

Trump has blasted Cheney for “loving endless, nonsensical, bloody wars.”

“The Cheneys are diehard globalists and warmongers who have been plunging us into new conflicts for decades, spilling American blood and spending American treasure all over the world,” Trump said.

“That’s why Liz Cheney voted no on bringing our troops back home from Syria, where they didn’t even want to have us,” he added.

Trump was referencing Cheney’s break with Trump over his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria in 2019 ahead of an alleged planned Turkish incursion.

“Cheney is at the front of the parade trying to get us to go into wars with Russia or anyone else that wants to bite,” Trump said.

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