Liz Cheney and Ted Cruz Trade Blows Over 2024: ‘I Know You’re Posturing For The Secessionist Vote, Ted’
A clip from Jake Tapper‘s The Lead that touched on both the 2022 and 2024 elections led to an exchange of blows between Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Liz Cheney on Saturday over which of them is the real Republican.
In the clip, the CNN panelists discussed a comment from Rep. Cheney about the January 6 committee and the fact that she has not “ruled out” a White House run in 2024 on the GOP ticket.
Tapper asked if Cheney has a “lane” for such a bid, and former Biden-Harris staffer Ashley Allison replied that she does think there’s a lane, because “there are a lot of Republicans that feel like they don’t have a home right now and so they are looking for someplace to.”
“I’m not sure Liz Cheney is going to be the home that they might want to veer toward, but I think there’s an opportunity in the Republican party to really decide who they are going to be,” the Democrat explained. “Cheney may be an option, there may be a whole list of other ones as well.”
National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru tended to disagree, as did Sen. Cruz when he retweeted the clip on Saturday morning.
CNN tweeted the clip with Tapper’s question, “Is there a lane for Liz Cheney in New Hampshire in 2024?”
Cruz retweeted, saying “Yes. It’s called the Democratic primary.”
Yes. It’s called the Democratic primary. https://t.co/q31fFvQZOp
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 13, 2021
A few hours later, Cheney replied by retweet, telling Cruz that he’s “posturing for the secessionist vote” and admonishing him to remember his oath to the Constitution.
I know you’re posturing for the secessionist vote, Ted. But my party, the Republican party, saved the Union. You swore an oath to the Constitution. Act like it. https://t.co/YyQ1XHRhCY
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) November 13, 2021
The Republican primary in 2024 is already being litigated, and both Cheney and Cruz have come up in the jockeying many times. There’s no doubt their names will figure prominently in that knife war for months to come.
The two have not exchanged further words on Twitter – yet – but the exchange prompted hours of quote retweets, replies, and fights between others. As Twitter does.
