Liz Cheney is confident in her reelection in Wyoming – but won’t rule out 2024 White

Liz Cheney says she intends to win the primary election in Wyoming in August despite several polls showing her far behind her Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.

The Republican at-large representative also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of mounting a run for president in 2024 when speaking with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl.

The pre-recorded interview, which aired Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week program, was the first with the January 6 select committee panel-member after a surprise hearing Tuesday that featured testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, 25, a former top aide to ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Despite a censure from the GOP in her state, Cheney is confident that she still has a chance in the primary elections.

‘I don’t intend to lose the republican primary in Wyoming,’ Cheney said when Karl asked what a loss would mean for her state and the party as it quickly split into pro- and anti-Trump factions.

‘How important is it that you win for that larger battle?’ the ABC reporter pushed.

‘I think it’s important because I will be the best representative that the people of Wyoming can have,’ she insisted.

Representative Liz Cheney says she intends to win her Wyoming primary next month but wouldn’t rule out a run for the White House in 2024

Cheney is falling far behind her Trump-backed competitor Harriet Hageman (pictured on June 14) as polls show her trailing by 30 points

‘The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump,’ Cheney added. ‘And I think that that matters to us as Americans more than anything else and that’s why my work on the Committee is so important and why it’s so important to not just brush this passed, I think it’s very important that people know the truth and that there are consequences.’ 

One poll from Club for Growth taken in May showed that Cheney is behind Hageman by 30 percentage points, while another poll from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates in June showed her trailing by 28 percent.

The signs are dire for the three-term congresswoman seeing her fourth shot to continue representing Wyoming.

Cheney has, however, garnered widespread national attention through her opposition to Trump and in her fall from grace with Wyoming Republicans has still managed to out-raise Hageman well over a 2-to-1 margin in the first three months of 2022.

The congresswoman has faced widespread criticism from her party for voting to impeach Trump after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and then joining the Democratic-led committee probing the events leading up to, following and on that day.

Cheney sat down with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in an interview that aired in full on Sunday morning – it was the first interview with the Wyoming congresswoman since the bombshell surprise January 6 hearing on Tuesday

Wyoming is Trump country – and the GOP there censured Cheney after her moved to accept Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to join the January 6 select committee.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) also censured Cheney and the House GOP Conference booted her from her post as its chairwoman, which is the No. 2 Republican post in Congress’ lower chamber. Cheney was replaced with New York GOP Representative Elise Stefanik.

When asked if she could run for president in 2024, Cheney said: ‘I haven’t made a decision about that yet.’

Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman in her run to take the GOP nomination in Cheney’s attempt for a fourth term for Wyoming’s at-large representative. The ex-president rallied for Hageman in Casper, Wyoming on May 28, 2022

‘I’m obviously very focused on my reelection,’ she added. ‘I’m very focused on the January 6 committee. I’m very focused on my obligations to do the job that I have now.’

‘I’ll make a decision about ’24 down the road,’ Cheney told Karl in her interview.

‘But I think about it less in terms of a decision about running for office and more in terms of, you know, as an American and as somebody who’s in a position of public trust now, how do I make sure that I’m doing everything I can to do the right thing, to do what I know is right for the country and to protect our Constitution.’