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Liz Cheney says she has ‘no faith’ speaker Johnson will certify the 2024 election: he’s knowingly done ‘unconstitutional’ things to ‘placate’ Trump (www.mediaite.com)

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Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — stating she has “no faith” Johnson will “fulfill his constitutional obligations” as they pertain to certifying the 2024 election.

In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, moderator Kristen Welker

who had just interviewed Johnson moments earlier

brought in Cheney and asked her to weigh in.

"You just heard how the House Speaker answered my questions about whether he would certify the election results," Welker said. "Do you have faith that this election will be free and fair and that there will be a peaceful transfer of power?"

Cheney proceeded to voice a complete lack of confidence that Johnson would certify the election if former President Donald Trump lost.

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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

And here we have a prime example of cutting off your nose to spite your face...

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Do you think platforming Liz Cheney looks good to anyone who isn't already "vote blue no matter who"?

Trump managed to look dovish next to the butcher of Libya in 2016, despite his big criticism of her Libya policy being that we didn't steal their oil. Using a torture advocate to represent your party does not help your cause.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago

Yes. There do still exist Republican voters who imagine or want the Republican party to be what it was in the pre-Trump days. It is those people she is speaking to.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin!”

Yall learned nothing in 2016. Fascists will never vote for diet-fascism when the real thing is right there.

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