Liz Cheney Says Conservatives May Need New Political Party

Liz Cheney thinks conservatives might have to consider a future beyond the Republican party.

During the Cap Times Idea Fest in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday, the former congresswoman from Wyoming said she’s had a hard time reckoning with what the GOP has become and wondered if it may be time for a new political party to emerge.

“Whether it’s organizing a new party — look, it’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly that people ought to vote for Republican candidates until it really recognizes what it’s done,” Cheney said, as quoted in a report by The New York Times.

“There is certainly going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics work,” she continued. “I don’t know exactly what that will look like.”

Cheney added that she had serious doubts about the party finding a way to reform itself, saying what’s happened over the last few years under the leadership of Donald Trump has been “too damaging.”

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