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David Smith in Washington

Liz Cheney is the leader of the anti-Trump Republican resistance – where does it go now?

Liz Cheney at an election night event at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, 16 August 2022.
Liz Cheney at an election night event at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, this week. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

She knew the price of defying Donald Trump but did it anyway. Liz Cheney, crushed in a primary election in Wyoming, was anointed by supporters and commentators as leader of the Republican resistance to the former US president.

But that invited a question: what resistance? Admirers of the three-term congresswoman who lost her House seat to a Trump-backed challenger warn that she could now find herself a general without an army.

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