She is the eldest daughter of Dick Cheney, former Vice President by George W. Bush. 56 years old, blond short square, pearl necklace and big charisma, Liz Cheyney is now an outcast in her own camp since she has set herself the goal that Donald Trump never returns to the White House. In August, she lost the primary in her own very conservative state of Wyoming to a protege of Trump. She therefore knew that she would leave Parliament in the mid-terms this autumn. So she repeated it even louder: “I will do whatever it takes to make sure he never comes near the Oval Office again.”
>>> United States: Liz Cheney, sworn enemy of Donald Trump, ejected from her seat in Congress
Thursday, October 13, as vice-president of the parliamentary committee, after a year of investigations into the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, she voted, with her colleagues and Democratic opponents, this declaration of war on the former president. of the United States to come and appear before them. And his words are very clear: “The main cause of what happened on January 6 is called Donald Trump. None of this would have happened without him. He was personally and consequentially involved in all of this. President Trump had a premeditated plan to claim that the election was stolen before it even took place”.
Initially with the Republicans, Liz Cheney is however clearly classified among the conservatives, the “hawks”. Partisan of the hard line, of the affirmation of the power of the United States, of the balance of power more than of diplomacy. Worthy heiress of her father, who raised her in Wyoming where she was born in 1966. With her mother, the writer Lynn Cheyney, Elisabeth – her real first name – studied law in Chicago. She then became a lawyer in Virginia where she practiced until her father was elected vice-president in 2000. She was then 34 years old. Appointed to the State Department, she is responsible for promoting the liberalization of the economy. She attacks very violently her fellow lawyers who defend the detainees of the Guantanamo camp. She even sets up an association when she leaves the White House, to sue them for lack of loyalty to the United States.
We find Liz Cheney at Fox News, the conservative news channel. She works there as a political analyst and sometimes even replaces the animators. In 2013, a conservative magazine named her one of the 25 most influential women in the Republican Party.
During his first campaign for the Senate, it is a shallot race with the outgoing senator: who will be the most conservative. She even makes headlines for publicly arguing with her younger sister, Mary, who is a lesbian, married to a woman. Liz Cheney being opposed to same-sex marriage. She will give up this candidacy because of the health problems of one of her children. But she will finally enter the House of Representatives in 2017. She has been re-elected twice since.
During the campaign for the presidential election in 2016, Liz Cheney had very harsh words against Hilary Clinton, the opponent of Donald Trump. She calls the Democratic candidate “criminal”. Later, in Parliament, she will vote on all texts with the Trump majority, except on international policy. This is his only point of disagreement with the president who criticized the Bush/Cheney years in this area. But Liz Cheney still supports Donald Trump at the time of the first impeachment trial in February 2020.
But we are entering the Covid-19 period. It is from this moment that Liz Cheney begins to distance herself. When Donald Trump opposes wearing a mask, she posts on Twitter a photo of her father who recommends “wearing a mask”, accompanied by the hashtag #realmenwearmasks (“real men wear masks”).
Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK. #realmenwearmasks pic.twitter.com/iBfVoa7ypL
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 26, 2020
In January 2021, she officially asks him to recognize Joe Biden’s victory. The assault on the Capitol will do the rest: it votes impeachment with the Democrats. In a few weeks, she will therefore leave Parliament. Which will leave him plenty of time to prepare for the presidential election of 2024 where many already imagine him facing Donald Trump.