The Cheney ’24 Big Lie

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Liz Cheney says she is dedicated to doing “whatever it takes” to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Image
Tina Nguyen
September 7, 2022

Within hours of her spectacular, entirely predictable primary election loss, Liz Cheney, the single-issue, soon-to-be-unemployed anti-Trump Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, set about putting her next career arc into play. Overnight, she formed a political action committee called The Great Task, filed to transfer some $7 million of leftover campaign funding into the new endeavor, and lined up a morning interview on the Today show to tease what that “great task” will entail: doing “whatever it takes” to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, even if it means running for president, herself. “It is something that I am thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” she said.