WASHINGTON
\nU.S. Republican Representative Liz Cheney vowed to do all she could to keep Donald Trump out of the White House and said she would decide in the coming months whether to run for president herself, after she lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger in Wyoming on Tuesday.
\nBut Senator Lisa Murkowski, another Republican who has defied the former president, cleared a hurdle in Alaska. She was set to face Trump-endorsed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 congressional election, as the two candidates advanced in that state\u2019s non-partisan primary.
\nCheney\u2019s defeat, by Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, marks a significant victory for the former president in his campaign to oust Republicans who backed impeaching him after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building last year.
\nIn conceding the race, Cheney — a fierce critic of Trump who has played a prominent role in the congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol — said she was not willing \u201cgo along with President Trump\u2019s lie about the 2020 election\u201d to win a primary.
\n\u201cIt would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. That was a path I could not and would not take,\u201d she told supporters.
\nCheney told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show on Wednesday that she \u201cwill be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office\u201d and that she was considering running for president.
\n\u201cIt is something that I am thinking about, and I\u2019ll make a decision in the coming months,\u201d she told \u201cToday\u201d when asked about a presidential bid, adding she had a lot of work left to do with the Jan. 6 committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Representative Liz Cheney vowed to do all she could to keep Donald Trump out of the White House and said she would decide in the coming months whether to run for president herself, after she lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger in Wyoming on Tuesday. But Senator Lisa Murkowski, another Republican who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4022,1223,10177,10178],"class_list":{"0":"post-277914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-battle","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-liz-cheney","11":"tag-presidency"},"yoast_head":"\n