Cheney vows to keep certain Republican candidates out of office

US Representative Liz Cheney has vowed to oppose Republican candidates who back former President Donald Trump's claims about a stolen 2020 election that placed Joe Biden in office as the current US president.

Cheney, the daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, declared in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley were "unfit" for office after they voted to overturn the presidential results on January 6, 2021.  

Cheney is Trump's leading critic and vice chair of the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 violent protest march, which Trump has said represented "the greatest movement in the history” of the country.

The House select committee’s public hearings intend to put up a case against Trump that he was responsible for the January 6 riot, starting with knowingly spreading lies around the election, seeking to overturn the results, assembling the mob in the Capitol and failing to act to stop the violence.

Cheney told ABC's "This Week" that a broad movement of election denial could undermine the US constitutional order if left unchecked.

The Wyoming lawmaker said she will focus on keeping election deniers out of office after she lost her Republican primary race to a Trump-backed candidate.

She has already said she will spend the next two years trying to stop Trump from returning to the White House in 2024.

"I'm going to be very focused on working to ensure that we do everything we can not elect election deniers," Cheney said.

"We've got election deniers that have been nominated for really important positions all across the country. And I'm going to work against those people. I'm going to work to support their opponents."

She said that she will also aim to educate the Americans about the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.

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