Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called “large sections” of the Republican Party “very sick” in an interview that recaps her failed bid to stay in office. Cheney, asked by ABC News what she thought her loss said about the Republican Party, said it indicated former President Donald Trump’s stranglehold on the party. “He says it clearly [Trump’s] Restraint is very strong among some parts of the Republican Party. My home state of Wyoming is not necessarily a representative sample of the party,” Cheney said. Wyoming is one of the reddest states in the union. REP. LIZ CHENEY COMPARES HERSELF TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AFTER LOUD DEFEAT IN WYOMING PRIMARY Cheney continued, “I think he’s saying a couple of things. I think he’s saying that people continue to believe the lie. They continue to believe what he says, which is dangerous.” Rep. Liz Cheney looks on during her primary night party in Jackson, Wyoming, August 16, 2022. (REUTERS/David Stubbs) Cheney has been Trump’s most prominent Republican critic since he left office. She has used her seat on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to criticize Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. TRUMP JOINED BY DICK CHENEY AS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT STARS IN DAUGHTER’S COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman defeated Cheney by 37 points on Tuesday. “I think it also tells you that large portions of our party, including our party leadership, are very sick,” he claimed. Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman speaks during her primary night party in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 16, 2022. (REUTERS/Eli Imadali) Cheney will need some of those voters if she decides to run for president in 2024, as she has said she plans to do. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) GOP leader McCarthy said earlier this week that he believes he will be the next speaker of the House. “I think so. We’re going to win the majority and I’m going to be speaker. Yes,” McCarthy said in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Monday, as he pointed to the GOP’s possible recapture of the House majority in November’s midterm elections. . Cheney, however, doesn’t think it should be. “I don’t believe he should be speaker of the House and I think that was very clear,” he said. Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and email him at [email protected]
