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In a flurry of appearances and commentary, former Representative Liz Cheney has stepped up her denunciations of former President Donald J. Trump in a last-ditch effort to influence Republicans to not nominate him once more.
“Tell the world who we’re along with your vote. Tell them that we’re a very good and an amazing nation,” Ms. Cheney advised major voters in New Hampshire on Friday, in a speech at Dartmouth College’s Democracy Summit. “Show the world that we’ll defeat the plague of cowardice sweeping by means of the Republican Party.”
A day later, she blasted Mr. Trump’s suggestion on the marketing campaign path that the Civil War may have been prevented if President Abraham Lincoln had “negotiated.”
“Which a part of the Civil War ‘may have been negotiated’? The slavery half? The secession half? Whether Lincoln ought to have preserved the Union?” she wrote on X. “Question for members of the G.O.P. — the party of Lincoln — who’ve endorsed Donald Trump: How are you able to probably defend this?”
And in an interview on Sunday on “Face the Nation” on CBS News, she denounced Mr. Trump’s makes an attempt to finish or delay his legal trials by arguing that he had immunity in opposition to fees associated to something he did in workplace. She endorsed efforts to take away him from ballots beneath Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
“I actually consider that Donald Trump’s conduct rose to that stage,” she mentioned, referring to Section 3’s disqualification of people that engaged in revolt in opposition to the Constitution after taking an oath to help it. (She made an analogous remark at Dartmouth, saying, “There’s no query in my thoughts that his actions clearly constituted an offense that’s throughout the language of the 14th Amendment.”)
“I believe that there’s no foundation for an assertion that the president of the United States is totally immune from legal prosecution for acts in workplace,” she added of Mr. Trump’s appeals on that entrance. “He’s making an attempt to delay his trial as a result of he doesn’t need individuals to see the witnesses who will testify in opposition to him,” she continued.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, mentioned on Sunday: “Liz Cheney is a loser who’s now mendacity to be able to promote a e book that both belongs within the low cost discount bin within the fiction part of the bookstore or needs to be repurposed as rest room paper.”
Ms. Cheney turned in opposition to Mr. Trump in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. As a member of the House, she was one in all 10 Republicans who voted to question him and one in all two who served on the committee that investigated the assault. She lost her Republican primary overwhelmingly in 2022.
Of all of the states holding early primaries and caucuses, New Hampshire — the place Ms. Cheney spoke on Friday — is essentially the most fertile floor for Trump opponents, due to its voters’ average tendencies and the truth that independents can vote within the Republican race. Mr. Trump leads his nearest challenger there, Nikki Haley, by about 13 percentage points — a big margin, however considerably smaller than the roughly 30 factors by which he leads Ron DeSantis in Iowa and Ms. Haley in South Carolina.
Voting will start in only one week, when Iowa Republicans maintain their caucuses on Jan. 15. The New Hampshire major comes subsequent, on Jan. 23, adopted by Nevada and South Carolina in February.
Ms. Cheney advised the viewers at Dartmouth that her personal plans relied on whether or not Republican voters heeded her name.
As she has performed on a number of events, she left open the possibility of working as a third-party candidate in the event that they nominate Mr. Trump. But on the identical time, she indicated a choice for President Biden over Mr. Trump, saying that whereas she disagreed with Mr. Biden on coverage issues, “Our nation can survive and recuperate from coverage errors. We can’t recuperate from a president prepared to torch the Constitution.”
“I’m going to do no matter the simplest factor is to make sure that Donald Trump just isn’t elected,” she added. “I’ll decide about what that’s within the coming months as we see what occurs within the Republican primaries.”
A spokesman for Ms. Cheney didn’t reply to a message asking whether or not she deliberate to make an endorsement within the primaries.
