Liz Cheney has called on courts of law, the news media, government bureaucrats and other citizens to be the “guardrails of democracy” after Kamala Harris – whom she served as a conservative campaign surrogate – lost Tuesday’s US presidential election to their common opponent, Donald Trump.
In a social media post on Wednesday, the former high-profile Republican Wyoming congresswoman – and daughter of George W Bush’s vice-president Dick Cheney – also urged Harris’s supporters to accept her defeat “whether we like the outcome or not”.
