Liz Cheney believes Republican House majority in 2025 poses a ‘threat’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said a Republican majority in the House in 2025 would be a “threat,” particularly if the 2024 election heads to the lower chamber for a vote.

Cheney said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who voted against certifying the 2020 election in two states, cannot remain in the role if the 2024 election comes before the House, particularly if the Republican nominee is former President Donald Trump.

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“We’re facing a situation with respect to the 2024 election where it’s an existential crisis, and we have to ensure that we don’t have a situation where an election that might be thrown into the House of Representatives is overseen by a Republican majority,” Cheney said.

The process Cheney refers to is a “contingent election.” Under the 12th Amendment, if no candidate earns a majority of 270 delegates during the general election, the House would vote on a president, and the Senate would vote on a vice president — giving the party that holds a majority in one or both chambers a significant advantage.

When asked if she would prefer a Democratic majority in the House in 2025, Cheney drew comparisons to her morals as a Republican and how she thinks the party is behaving now.

“I believe very strongly in those principles and ideals that have defined the Republican Party. But the Republican Party of today has made a choice, and they haven’t chosen the Constitution,” the former congresswoman said. “And so I do think it presents a threat if the Republicans are in the majority in January 2025.”

Cheney’s CBS interview focused on her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, which she concludes by calling the defeat of Trump in the 2024 election “the cause of our time.”

A clip aired earlier this week showed Cheney detailing that Trump’s potential primary win and reelection would bring the United States closer to a “dictatorship.”

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“It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take. People who say, ‘well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances,’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted,” Cheney said.

“One of the things that we see happening today is sort of sleepwalking into a dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney continued.