Liz Cheney launches new ad in New Hampshire attacking Trump

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has launched a marketing campaign advert in New Hampshire warning 2024 voters in opposition to backing former President Trump. 

“Donald Trump has confirmed he’s unfit for workplace. Donald Trump is a danger America can by no means take once more,” Cheney says in a voice-over atop clips of Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol. 

Cheney, who was on the Home choose committee that probed Jan. 6, knocked Trump for his actions across the 2020 election, which he misplaced to now-President Biden. 

“Donald Trump is the one president in American historical past who has refused to ensure the peaceable switch of energy. He misplaced the election and he knew it. He betrayed tens of millions of Individuals by telling them the election was stolen. He ignored the rulings of dozens of courts,” she mentioned within the video.

“Relatively than settle for his defeat, he mobilized a mob to come back to Washington and March on the Capitol. Then he watched on tv whereas the mob attacked legislation enforcement, invaded the Capitol and hunted the vice chairman,” Cheney mentioned.

NBC Information reviews that the advert that the video, titled “Danger” and launched by her political motion committee The Nice Process, will air in New Hampshire round Trump’s deliberate on-air city corridor on Wednesday. 

Cheney additionally highlighted Trump’s delay in telling the rioters to go away and asserted that Trump “didn’t care” about warnings that his Jan. 6 plans had been unlawful. “There has by no means been a larger dereliction of obligation by any president,” she mentioned. 

Trump introduced after the midterms final 12 months that he’s operating to reclaim the White Home in 2024. Cheney fueled hypothesis late final 12 months that she may get within the 2024 ring, however she’s not made clear whether or not she intends to run at any level. 

She was ousted from her Home management publish because the No. 3 Republican within the chamber after denying Trump’s claims of election fraud in the course of the 2020 race. She was later defeated in her midterm reelection bid final 12 months by a Trump-backed challenger throughout Wyoming’s Republican main.