Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — stating she has “no faith” Johnson will “fulfill his constitutional obligations” as they pertain to certifying the 2024 election.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, moderator Kristen Welker — who had just interviewed Johnson moments earlier — brought in Cheney and asked her to weigh in.

“You just heard how the House Speaker answered my questions about whether he would certify the election results,” Welker said. “Do you have faith that this election will be free and fair and that there will be a peaceful transfer of power?”

Cheney proceeded to voice a complete lack of confidence that Johnson would certify the election if former President Donald Trump lost.


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Why are you platforming Liz fucking Cheney? I heard the grand wizard of the KKK is worried about a Trump presidency, why don’t we interview him? Maybe do a seance and see how Henry Kissinger feels.

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And here we have a prime example of cutting off your nose to spite your face…

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Do you think platforming Liz Cheney looks good to anyone who isn’t already “vote blue no matter who”?

Trump managed to look dovish next to the butcher of Libya in 2016, despite his big criticism of her Libya policy being that we didn’t steal their oil. Using a torture advocate to represent your party does not help your cause.

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Yes. There do still exist Republican voters who imagine or want the Republican party to be what it was in the pre-Trump days. It is those people she is speaking to.

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She’s on the right side of this issue, and has been publicly, at great personal cost. Let her help for Christ’s sake.

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Associating with a torture advocate who claims Obama is a Kenyan Muslim is a bad look, even if they’re correct on this one issue.

The people who like her, islamophobes who believe the CIA should be torturing muslims who have never been charged with a crime, are not going to vote for Kamala. Even if Kamala came out and said she and Liz Cheney were going to feed every Muslim to a wood chipper, those people will still vote for the party everyone knows hate Muslims more.

The people who don’t like her, people who believe in basic human dignity, are more likely to stay home when they see the democrats trotting her out.

There’s millions of other people who are right on this issue, most of them have not spent the last 20 years defending the Iraq war.

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Maybe do a seance and see how Henry Kissinger feels.

Of all the shitty things happening recently it’s always nice to be reminded that Kissinger is finally dead. At least sometimes good things happen.

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Put the ghoul back in the closet. Harris, you’ve dropped 4 points since adopting the “lets campaign with the family who destroyed a generation” political dynasty.

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I hadn’t thought of that but yeah this is how Trump wins. This is going to be so hilarious. I’m sure Democrats will blame everyone but themselves for coddling the fascist GOP for generations.

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I’m sure Democrats will blame everyone but themselves

It’s definitely going to be the fault of

  • Jill Stein, for winning a critical swing 0.4% of the vote

  • Muslim Voters, because they secretly approve of the genocides in the Middle East and hope Trump will do them even harder

  • Evil Foreign Governments, the root cause of everything bad on the internet. They want a Trump Presidency because he will cause US foreign policy to become weak, soy, and too friendly to foreigners

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Would not certifying the results mean that Joe Biden would remain as President? If they wanted to fuck around for too long, Biden could resign which would mean his Vice President would become President.

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This is correct, and he would have another 6 years left maximum however long he’s alive actually.

Term limits only apply to the elections in the US, not time spent in office. The maximum amount of time anyone can spend as president and still be elected is one day less than 6 years.

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This is not true. If the speaker refuses to certify the election and neither candidate gets the electoral votes to win, it moves to a contingent election where the House votes for the President and the Senate votes for the vice-president.

Biden will not remain in power, the contingent election would be forced and the House would obviously vote for Trump. Then someone who lost the popular vote and lost the electoral college would miraculously have won the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election

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Are you sure about that? That happens if they refuse to certify?

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How’s that second part?

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This is the easiest counter honestly.

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If the speaker refuses to certify the election and neither candidate gets the electoral votes to win, it moves to a contingent election where the House votes for the President and the Senate votes for the vice-president.

Biden will not remain in power, the contingent election would be forced and the House would obviously vote for Trump. Then someone who lost the popular vote and lost the electoral college would miraculously have won the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election

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And we either put several million people on the streets in DC or lose our democracy at that moment.

That said there is something nobody is accounting for. If Trump loses the election the GOP could just abandon him at that point. Declare him the weird intern who only ever did coffee runs.

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