Liz Cheney aims to be a leader for anti-Trump Republicans after primary loss – live

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Live feed From 4h ago 14. 13 Many Republicans have stood against Donald Trump. Few have succeeded.

Liz Cheney will now be the latest to try, looking to capitalize on her conservative voting record, her vice-chairmanship of the January 6 committee and of course her father’s time as vice-president under Republican George W. Bush. Trump remains the favorite among Republicans for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, and undoing that would require Cheney to convince the GOP to abandon the viewpoints and policies he brought into the mainstream when he won the White House in 2016.

It’s a tough ask, and no shortage of Republicans have failed in the past. Just ask the eight House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment but then were ousted by voters or opted to retire, or the various party fathers and moderates who begged the GOP not to back Trump, only to be bowled over by the will of the electorate. Why is Cheney doing it? As she said in her concession speech last night, “A few years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the vote.

I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election… That was a path I could not and would not take. ” Politico’s Playbook has another theory .

Cheney won’t have much competition in the Trump-hating space, they write, with the GOP more or less in his grips and Democrats split over how big of a deal to make of him among their voters. “So rather than a kamikaze mission, her primary loss may have been more like parachuting out of a plane that had outlived its usefulness. Her great task now is figuring out where to land,” Playbook says.

Key events 38m ago The day so far 2h ago Pence ‘would consider’ talking to January 6 committee – but with caveats 3h ago Court allows Biden administration to again pause oil and gas leases on federal land 4h ago After primary loss, Liz Cheney aims for new job: Trump foe-in-chief Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 17m ago 17. 58 The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that the agency will undergo a massive restructuring following failures during the Covid-19 pandemic. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sign stands at the entrance of their offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

Photograph: Ron Harris/AP CDC director Rochelle P. Walensky announced the planned changes during a meeting with senior staff today, acknowledging the CDC’s botched response to Covid-19, reported the New York Times . “For 75 years, C.

D. C. and public health have been preparing for Covid-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” said Walensky on the agency’s shortcomings.

“My goal is a new, public health, action-oriented culture at C. D. C.

that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness. ” Changes will be aimed at increasing the CDC’s ability to faster respond to major health crises and restoring public trust. Critics of the CDC say that during the Covid-19 pandemic, the agency failed to scale up testing, vaccination efforts, and data collection.

The CDC has also been accused of publishing ineffective and contradictory health advice on Covid-19. Similar issues have been raised about the CDC’s response to the spread of monkey pox in the US. 38m ago 17.

37 The day so far Yesterday’s elections in Wyoming and Alaska have ousted Liz Cheney from her House seat while giving Sarah Palin a shot at getting her own spot in the chamber. But Cheney has vowed to keep fighting Donald Trump and his allies, a task at which many before her have failed . Here’s a rundown of what has happened so far today: Former vice-president Mike Pence signaled a degree of openness to talking to the January 6 committee, though with several caveats.

Rudy Giuliani has appeared before a special grand jury in Atlanta that is investigating attempts to meddle with the state’s election results in 2020. He has been told he is a target of the investigation. The memoir of Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner was torn apart by The New York Times’ book reviewer .

A court ruling allowed the Biden administration to again pause new oil and gas drilling leases on federal land. 1h ago 17. 19 While Alaska’s elections were held yesterday, it may take till the end of the month to determine the winner of closely fought races, such as the special election for the state’s vacant House of Representatives seat.

According to the Anchorage Daily News , “As of 2 a. m. Wednesday, the Alaska Division of Elections had counted over 150,000 ballots in the race that will determine Alaska’s next representative in Congress, in a special election to replace 49-year Rep.

Don Young, who died unexpectedly in March. The Division will continue to accept ballots until Aug. 31, as long as they were postmarked on or before election day.

Once the last ballots are counted — if no candidate crosses the 50% threshold needed to win under the state’s new ranked choice voting system — the candidate in last place will be eliminated and the second-place votes of that candidate’s supporters will be redistributed. ” 1h ago 17. 01 Sarah Palin may nearing a return to the national political stage, Maanvi Singh reports, after Alaska voters gave her decent support in last night’s special election: Sarah Palin looks set to be on the ballot in November’s general election after the former governor of Alaska and ex vice-presidential candidate clinched one of four spots vying for a seat in the US House, according to the Associated Press.

Palin, who rose to fame more than a decade ago as John McCain’s running mate, advanced to the general election along with her two challengers, Nick Begich III, a tech millionaire backed by the Alaska Republican party, and Mary Peltola, a former state legislator and Democrat. It was too early to call the fourth spot. Palin, Peltola and Begich are competing for Alaska’s only House seat, formerly occupied by Don Young, who died in March.

The trio were also competing in a special election to serve the remainder of Young’s term, which ends early next year. Sarah Palin advances to November election for Alaska House seat Read more 1h ago 16. 45 “This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what’s left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox.

” That’s a line in a New York Times review of a Trump administration official’s newly published memoir. But whose? The answer: Jared Kushner . The literary savaging of “Breaking History”, the memoir of Donald Trump ’s son-in-law who became one of his closest White House advisers, was carried out by Times literary critic Dwight Garner , who is clearly no fan of the former president’s policies.

“Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and so on, ad infinitum, to speak about his boyish tinkering (the “mechanic”) with issues he was interested in,” Garner writes. The reviewer however finds plenty of issues with the book’s content and prose irrespective of its politics, concluding that it ultimately contains so little meaningful insights into the Trump administration as to be uninteresting to just about every party that would want to read it. “You finish ‘Breaking History’ wondering: Who is this book for? There’s not enough red meat for the MAGA crowd, and Kushner has never appealed to them anyway.

Political wonks will be interested — maybe, to a limited degree — but this material is more thoroughly and reliably covered elsewhere. He’s a pair of dimples without a demographic,” Garner says. 2h ago 16.

25 Here’s the latest on Liz Cheney’s primary defeat and plans for political rebirth, from David Smith on the ground in Jackson, Wyoming along with Richard Luscombe and Joanna Walters : Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has announced she is considering her own run for the White House in an all-out effort to prevent Donald Trump from winning another term as US president. Cheney decisively lost her Republican primary race on Tuesday night and will lose her seat in the US Congress. The Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman beat Cheney by almost 40 points as Wyoming voters took revenge for her voting to impeach Trump and for focusing on her role on the January 6 House select committee.

The panel, of which Cheney is vice-chair and one of only two Republicans , is investigating Trump’s role in fomenting the insurrection at the US Capitol by his supporters on 6 January 2021, in a vain attempt to stay in office following his defeat by Joe Biden. Liz Cheney considers run for president after Republican primary defeat Read more 2h ago 16. 07 Liz Cheney was praised on MSNBC this morning by, of all people, White House chief of staff Ron Klain.

“I don’t think there was anything we agree on,” said Klain, who was tasked by Joe Biden with getting his legislative proposals through Congress. “But, I respect enormously her commitment to democracy. ” .

@WHCOS Ron Klain commends Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for upholding her oath to the Constitution, instead of swearing “fealty” to Donald Trump: “I respect enormously [Liz Cheney’s] commitment to democracy . .

. instead of her commitment to one man. ” pic.

twitter. com/wIKog8CyQQ — The Recount (@therecount) August 17, 2022 2h ago 15. 46 Pence ‘would consider’ talking to January 6 committee – but with caveats A closer look at former vice-president Mike Pence ’s remarks about testifying before the January 6 committee indicates Donald Trump ’s one-time White House deputy would indeed entertain the request, but also has concerns about the constitutional implications.

Here’s a full video of his comments: Former Vice President Mike Pence when asked if he would cooperate if the January 6th committee called on him to testify: “If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it. ” pic. twitter.

com/y9NFrHwYtf — The Recount (@therecount) August 17, 2022 3h ago 15. 27 The Inflation Reduction Act signed yesterday was another major part of the Biden administration’s climate plan, and includes a slew of new tax incentives to encourage green investments, Oliver Milman reports: The giant climate bill signed by Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to touch upon myriad aspects of Americans’ lives, helping shape everything from the cars they drive to the stovetops in their kitchens. Biden has lauded the $369bn of climate spending in the Inflation Reduction Act as the “largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change” and predicted it will save people hundreds of dollars each year in energy costs.

This claim is based upon a series of investments aimed at shifting buying habits away from a polluting status quo towards cleaner, electrified vehicles and appliances. A US household could save $1,800 on their energy costs each year, according to a recent estimate , although this would require the installation of electric heat pumps for hot water and air conditioning, replacing a gasoline-powered car with an electric vehicle and installing solar panels on the roof. Electric cars to solar panels: tax breaks in Biden’s climate law for Americans Read more 3h ago 15.

10 Court allows Biden administration to again pause oil and gas leases on federal land A Louisiana judge has allowed the Biden administration to reinstate a pause on new oil and gas leases on federal land, in a win for the White House’s climate policy, Reuters reports. The order by a judge in the fifth circuit court of appeals overturns a previous lower court ruling that blocked the pause, which Joe Biden announced in the opening days of his administration. Earlier this year, the interior department began selling new onshore oil and natural gas drilling leases while the case made its way through court.

Public lands to reopen for oil and gas drilling in a first under Biden Read more 3h ago 14. 49 Mild tidbit of news from Mike Pence during his appearance in New Hampshire, as reported by Politico: Former VP Mike Pence says if there was an invitation to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, “I would consider it.

” #nhpolitics — Lisa Kashinsky (@lisakashinsky) August 17, 2022 Pence isn’t known to have talked to the committee. However, his name has been all over the public hearings, which have featured in-person and videotaped testimony from people close to Trump’s vice-president about what he was doing in the days before the attack on the Capitol, and during the assault, when he had to flee to a hidden area . Meanwhile, Pence’s former chief of staff has spoken to a grand jury investigating the assault.

Mike Pence’s ex-chief of staff testifies to grand jury investigating January 6 Read more 4h ago 14. 33 Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has arrived at an Atlanta court for his appearance before a special grand jury investigating the effort to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. He was greeted by something of a media circus: Rudy Giuliani has arrived at the Fulton County Courthouse to testify in grand jury proceedings looking into interference in the 2020 election results.

@cbs46 pic. twitter. com/6mAC7AdcNQ — Madeline Montgomery (@MadelineTV) August 17, 2022 Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse, with a mob of cameras and reporters following his entrance, as he is set to testify behind closed doors in a special grand jury probe.

He is a target of the investigation. #gapol pic. twitter.

com/64BWdHcKVT — stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) August 17, 2022 Giuliani’s appearance will not be public, but Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis , who convened the special grand jury, has informed the one-time New York City mayor he is a target of the investigation. Giuliani made repeated efforts to convince state officials that Georgia’s 2020 election results were fraudulent, but none of the allegations were ever found to have substance. Rudy Giuliani informed he is target of criminal investigation in Georgia Read more 4h ago 14.

13 Many Republicans have stood against Donald Trump. Few have succeeded. Liz Cheney will now be the latest to try, looking to capitalize on her conservative voting record, her vice-chairmanship of the January 6 committee and of course her father’s time as vice-president under Republican George W.

Bush. Trump remains the favorite among Republicans for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, and undoing that would require Cheney to convince the GOP to abandon the viewpoints and policies he brought into the mainstream when he won the White House in 2016. It’s a tough ask, and no shortage of Republicans have failed in the past.

Just ask the eight House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment but then were ousted by voters or opted to retire, or the various party fathers and moderates who begged the GOP not to back Trump, only to be bowled over by the will of the electorate. Why is Cheney doing it? As she said in her concession speech last night, “A few years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the vote. I could easily have done the same again.

The path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election… That was a path I could not and would not take. ” Politico’s Playbook has another theory . Cheney won’t have much competition in the Trump-hating space, they write, with the GOP more or less in his grips and Democrats split over how big of a deal to make of him among their voters.

“So rather than a kamikaze mission, her primary loss may have been more like parachuting out of a plane that had outlived its usefulness. Her great task now is figuring out where to land,” Playbook says. 4h ago 13.

56 After primary loss, Liz Cheney aims for new job: Trump foe-in-chief Good morning, US politics blog readers. Last night, Republican voters rejected Liz Cheney ’s bid to continue serving as their congresswoman, meaning she has only the remainder of the year left in the House of Representatives . She will continue in the highly public role of vice-chair of the January 6 committee, but this morning, Cheney said she is thinking about a run for presidency in 2024 – putting her in a position to compete directly against Donald Trump , a fellow Republican whom she loathes.

We’re certain to hear more about that today, but here’s what else is happening: In Alaska , ex-governor Sarah Palin advanced in the special election to fill the state’s open house seat, giving the one-time vice-presidential nominee a shot at returning to national politics. Voters will make their final decision in November. Former vice-president Mike Pence – who also fell out with Trump – is in New Hampshire , another state where voters are known as early kingmakers for aspiring presidential candidates.

Indeed, Pence has hinted he may run in 2024. The Biden administration will attempt a victory lap following the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act yesterday, the Democrats’ landmark spending plan to fight climate change and lower health care costs. However Joe Biden himself is on vacation in Delaware.

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