House Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney said it’s not likely former President Donald Trump will become the GOP’s nominee for the White House in 2024.
“I don’t think that that’s going to happen,” Cheney told the Washington Examiner. “And I think it’s important that it not happen, given what he did.”
Cheney was among 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on the charge he incited the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol that was carried out by throngs of his angry supporters.
Cheney said that if Trump wins the nomination, she “certainly would never vote for a Democrat” but does not believe Trump “should be president again.”
Trump hasn’t indicated definitively whether he will run in 2024 but told Fox News he is “beyond seriously” considering it.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who excoriated Trump after he was acquitted in the Senate on the riot impeachment charge, said in late February he would nonetheless vote for Trump if he became the nominee.
Trump has since then criticized McConnell several times. On April 13, Trump said in a statement that McConnell “didn’t fight for the presidency and won’t fight for the court,” referencing President Joe Biden’s commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court, presumably with liberal justices.
Days earlier, Trump called McConnell “a dumb son of a b—-” before a National Republican Committee audience at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump is angry at GOP lawmakers who did not fight to block the certification of Biden’s presidential victory.
