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202 | Yan Jiyu Column: She is a Republican, why does she oppose Trump's re-election?
Text / Yan Jiyu (Original published on August 29, 2022)
On August 16, 2022, Liz Cheney's family background and political record were trampled heavily. The people who trample on her are not Democrats or liberals, but the Republicans she was born and raised in Sri Lanka.
She is a congressman from Wyoming and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She has a proud family background and a bright political future. My father was the vice president of the United States, secretary of defense, and chief of staff at the White House. He was a well-spoken and pivotal figure in conservatives (he had been to Taiwan a few years ago); my mother was an influential conservative historian. Chaney used to be a high-level State Department executive and is familiar with Middle East and Near East affairs; in 2004, he assisted his father in winning the re-election campaign; in 2016, he was elected to the Federal House of Representatives. to make.
During her tenure in the House of Representatives, her conservative ideology was clear, and she was never afraid to confront liberals. For example, her sister Mary (Mary Cheney) is gay, but she is adamant against legalizing same-sex marriage. Chaney was quickly promoted to the No. 3 Republican House caucus leader. People began to expect that she would one day become the Republican's first female Speaker of the House, or even the first female presidential candidate, or even the first female president.
Trump, the Republican 'King Maker' and 'King Killer'
On the 16th, the Republican Party conducted the primary election for the federal House of Representatives election to be launched in November this year. Chaney, who was seeking three consecutive terms, not only lost, but also lost miserably. The vote rate was only 28.9%, less than his opponent Hajman ( Harriet Hageman). How did she get down here? Because Chaney offended one person: Donald Trump, the top leader of the US Republican Party today.
This year's election season, Trump has proved through party primaries after party that he is both a Republican kingmaker and a Republican kingslayer.
Ironically, from 2017 to 2021, during Trump's occupation of the White House, Chaney voted on bills or resolutions in the House of Representatives as high as 93% with Trump, even higher than Trump's close associate May who later became the White House chief of staff. Doss (Mark Meadows). She used to call herself a "loyal Trumpist", trying to build the Republican Party into a "Trump party" and arguing with her colleagues about who was more "Trumpier" than whom.
On January 6, 2021, that all changed completely.
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