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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Politics
Melanie Mason

Republican Party must choose between Trump and the Constitution, Liz Cheney says in California speech

Warning that America faces a "domestic threat we have never faced before," GOP Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday accused Republicans who ignore former President Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election of being derelict in their duty to preserve the constitutional republic.

Cheney's remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley were equally lacerating about the former president and the GOP — a broadside against her own party coming, ironically, at the monument to the late president who championed the so-called 11th commandment: that Republicans should not attack fellow Republicans.

After denouncing Republican leaders and elected officials for making themselves "willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man," the Wyoming congresswoman offered a blunt assessment of the decision awaiting the GOP.

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