Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) stated in a Sunday interview that she doubts Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will perform “his constitutional obligations” to certify the 2024 election.
Within the interview on “Meet the Press,” NBC Information’s Kristen Welker referenced a dialog with Johnson earlier Sunday. Welker had pressed Johnson on certifying the election outcomes.
“Regardless of who wins, you’ll certify the results?” she requested the Home Speaker, a staunch supporter of former President Trump.
“Regardless, of course it — yes, if the election is free and fair and legal, and we pray and hope that it is,” Johnson responded. “There’s a lot of work being done to make sure that’s true. I think this one’s gonna be so large there’ll be no question. I think Donald J. Trump is your next president, and that can’t happen soon enough.”
When requested whether or not she has “faith that this election will be free and fair and that there will be a peaceful transfer of power,” Cheney advised Welker she does “not have faith that Mike Johnson will fulfill his constitutional obligations.”
“And if you just look at what he did in 2020, he knew — and he knew with specificity — that the claims of fraud that Donald Trump was making and that he was repeating, he knew those to be false,” the Wyoming Republican stated. “We had very clear and specific conversations about that. He knew that courts had specifically found that those claims were false. He knew they weren’t true.”
Cheney turned a outstanding critic of Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on the U.S. Capitol. She was one among 10 Home Republicans who voted to question the previous president within the wake of the riots, and she or he has endorsed Vice President Harris on this 12 months’s election.
Cheney appeared at a marketing campaign rally in Wisconsin alongside Harris earlier this month, the place she urged People “to face in reality, to reject the wicked cruelty of Donald Trump, and I ask you as a substitute to assist us elect Kamala Harris for president.”
In her “Meet the Press” look, Cheney stated Johnson “has a record repeatedly of doing things that he knows to be wrong, that he knows to be unconstitutional in order to placate Donald Trump.”
“And frankly, you know, you saw that sycophancy just now on display,” Cheney added. “So, I think that it is — it’s very concerning.”
The Hill has reached out to Johnson’s workplace for remark.
