TRUMP TROUBLES COULD STILL BACKFIRE ON HIS CRITICS, WHILE BIDEN BRIEFLY BREAKS THROUGH
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The praiseworthy, preemptive political obits had already been published. All that remained was for the reporters and anchors to trek out to Wyoming and perform last rites.
But it is difficult to think of a single congressional primary loser who has drawn more glowing plaudits than Liz Cheney.
“The Country Needs More Liz Cheneys,” a Washington Post editorial said yesterday.
“Liz Cheney’s Non-Concession Speech,” said Politico, which says she’ll be forming a new political organization.
She was a featured guest yesterday on “Today,” telling Savannah Guthrie: “I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”
White House chief of staff Ron Klain praised her yesterday on “Morning Joe.”
Pretty impressive for a woman who got clobbered in Tuesday’s primary, drawing less than 30% of the vote in her loss to a Trump-backed rival, Harriet Hageman. Some Democrats crossed over for Cheney, but she was overwhelmed in the heavily Republican state, where many voters felt she doesn’t represent them any more.
Cheney countered that she could have won the primary with 73% of the vote, as she did last time, by going along with Trump’s “big lie” about the 2020 election.
It was “a speech that seemed directed not just at Republican voters, but at a wider national audience,” the New York Times says, stating the obvious after she entered to strains of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Back Down.
