Liz Cheney weighing presidential bid after primary loss

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was increasingly open on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential campaign after soundly losing a Republican primary to a challenger backed by former President Donald Trump.Speaking to NBC in the wake of her loss, the third-term congresswoman called Trump "a very grave threat and risk to our republic," and said defeating him will require "a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents — and that’s what I intend to be part of."She declined to say if she would run for president but conceded it’s "something that I’m thinking about."The primary results — and the more than 35-point margin of her defeat — were a powerful reminder of the GOP’s rapid shift to the right.

A party once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly conservatives like her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, now belongs to Trump, animated by his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the 2020 election.Such lies, which have been roundly rejected by federal and state election officials along with Trump’s own attorney general and judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms.

She's the top Republican on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, an attack she referenced in nodding to her political future."I have said since Jan.

6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it," she said during her concession speech on Tuesday.RELATED: Capitol Riot hearing: Rep.