We all have regrets in life. Dating that brunette. Having that last shot at the bar Thursday. Watching the ball roll through your legs in Game 6 of the World Series.
Liz Cheney’s regrets apparently are more world impacting (not to say Bill Buckner’s weren’t earthshaking for bookies around the country). Cheney now says she regrets voting for Donald Trump in 2020.
“I was never going to support Joe Biden and I do regret the vote,” Cheney told ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. “It was a vote based on policy, based on substance and in terms of the kinds of policies he put forward that were good for the country. But I think it’s fair to say that I regret the vote.”
In her first sit-down interview since being ousted as House Republican conference chair, the third highest position in the GOP caucus, Cheney also took aim at her House Republican colleagues, saying her replacement, Elise Stefanik should get a leadership role because she supports Trump’s Big Lie.
“I think it’s dangerous. I think that we have to recognize how quickly things can unravel,” Cheney said. “We have to recognize what it means for the nation to have a former president who has not conceded and who continues to suggest that our electoral system cannot function, cannot do the will of the people.”
Cheney has challenged Trump loyalists in the GOP and denounced the continuation of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from Trump. Cheney also became the target of Party ire by voting to impeach Trump on incitement of insurrection charges brought in the House after the January 6th domestic terrorist attack at the Capitol.