Fresh off her primary loss, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said Tuesday she has lost this battle against former President Donald Trump, but she still plans to win the war against him and his “poisonous” brand of politics and implicitly compared herself to Civil War-era President Abraham Lincoln.
The vow came after Ms. Cheney‘s quest for a third term in Congress ended in a dramatic fashion after her Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman blew her away at the ballot box.
Ms. Cheney said she called Ms. Hageman to concede, and said she understood the consequences of abiding by her duty to defend democracy and the constitution when she refused to go along with Mr. Trump’s election lies.
“This primary election is over, but now the real work begins,” Ms. Cheney said, before comparing her current situation to that of Lincoln’s early losses in bids for the House and the Senate and quoting from the Gettysburg Address.
“Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union and he defined our obligations as Americans for all of history,” she said. “Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task before us, Lincoln said, ‘That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’”
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