Liz Cheney thinks conservatives may need to consider a future outside the Republican Party.
Speaking at the Cap Times Idea Fest in Madison, Wisconsin, the former Wyoming congresswoman said she has a hard time understanding what has become of the GOP and wondered if it’s time for a new political party.
“Whether it’s organizing a new party — look, I find it hard to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make a compelling or credible argument that people should vote for Republican candidates until they actually acknowledge what it has done,” Cheney said, as quoted in a report by The New York Times.
“There’s definitely going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics works,” she continued. “I don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like.”
Cheney added that she has serious doubts about whether the party can find a way to reform itself, saying what has happened in recent years under Donald Trump has been “too damaging.”
“I don’t think it’s just going to be, ‘Well, the Republican Party is going to put together a new slate of candidates and then we’re going to race,'” she said. “I think there’s been far too much that’s happened that’s too damaging.”
Earlier this month, both Cheney and her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, sent shockwaves through the political world when they endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“I don’t think we have the luxury of writing down candidates’ names, especially in swing states,” she told an audience at Duke University in North Carolina.
“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only will I not vote for Donald Trump, I will vote for Kamala Harris.”
