While several former high-profile Republicans have recently been ostracized from the party for not falling in line with former President Donald Trump, one is now suggesting those on the outside form a new party.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, shared her thoughts on the current state of the Republican party during an interview at The Capital Times Idea Fest in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday.
Cheney appeared to suggest that conservatives should form a new kind of conservative party after saying that “far too much has happened that’s too damaging” to the Republican party.
“There is certainly going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics work — I don’t know exactly what that will look like. I don’t think it will just simply be… the Republican party is going to put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races,” Cheney told The New York Times’s Peter Baker.
Baker asked Cheney if she was suggesting that conservatives are unhappy with the current state of the GOP and if she thought they may create a new party.
She responded, saying, “It may well be” that there is a split in the GOP.
Earlier this month, Cheney and her father endorsed Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, saying she thinks most Americans don’t want “someone like Donald Trump to be the president.”
“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said at the time.
In Madison, Cheney said her thoughts on the GOP came after she spent time traveling the country talking to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
She went on to say that people “want a president that kids can look up to” and a president who will “defend the peaceful transfer of power.”
“That’s where we have to start, whether it’s organizing a new party,” she said.
The Trump campaign has responded to Cheney’s remarks, with spokesperson Steven Cheung telling The Hill, “Who’s Liz Cheney?”