Liz Cheney Tears Into ‘Dangerous’ Speaker Mike Johnson for Undermining ‘Our Republic’ To Help Trump Try To Overturn 2020 Election
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said during a recent podcast interview that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is “dangerous” for the republic due to his support of Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud.
Following the 2020 election, Johnson supported a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results in key battleground states after Trump lost. After rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6th, Johnson also voted to object to the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
During a recently released podcast interview with Larry Sabato, Cheney claimed Johnson went “along with the efforts to undermine our republic.”
“He was acting in ways that he knew to be wrong. And I think that the country unfortunately will come to see the measure of his character,” she told Sabato on the University of Virginia podcast Politics is Everything.
Professor @Liz_Cheney, @uva @Center4Politics Professor of Practice, says new House Speaker Mike Johnson is “dangerous”. Hear her reasons in our exclusive interview on a new episode of the Center for Politics’ podcast “Politics Is Everything.” Listen here or wherever you pod:… pic.twitter.com/xZgBRGmZHu
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) November 1, 2023
“One of the reasons why somebody like Mike Johnson is dangerous is because when you have elected Republicans who know better, elected Republicans who know the truth but yet will go along with the efforts to undermine our republic, the efforts, frankly, that Donald Trump undertook to overturn the election,” Cheney added.
Trump, who initially backed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker following Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ouster, congratulated Johnson after he won enough votes to become speaker.
After losing reelection in the midterms for her criticisms of Trump over his actions leading up to Jan. 6th, Cheney became a professor earlier this year at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“In my view, he was willing to set aside what he knew to be the rulings of the courts, the requirements of the Constitution, in order to placate Donald Trump, in order to gain praise from Donald Trump, for political expedience. So it’s a concerning moment to have him be elected Speaker of the House,” she concluded.
