Liz Cheney vote live updates: Republicans oust her from leadership position

After the GOP Conference meeting, Cheney spoke to reporters and repeated that she is committed to advancing the Republican Party — but not the agenda of the former president.

“I am absolutely committed as I said last night, as I said just now to my colleagues, that we must go forward based on truth. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution,” she said. “The nation needs a strong Republican Party, the nation needs a party that that is based upon fundamental principles of conservatism, and I am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that’s how this party goes forward, and I plan to lead the fight to do that.”

Asked if she was concerned that Trump might end up back in the Oval Office, Cheney said she “will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.”

“We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution. And I think it’s very important that we make sure whomever we elect, is somebody who will be faithful to the Constitution,” she said.

Rep. Liz Cheney speaks to the media at the US Capitol in Washington, on May 12, 2021.

She said she didn’t feel betrayed by her colleagues’ vote, when asked, but warned of the GOP falling in line with the former president’s “very dangerous lies” and said there’s work to do for the future of the party.

“I do not. I think that it is an indication of where the Republican Party is, and I think that the party is in a place that we’ve got to bring it back from, And we’ve got to get back to a position where we are a party that can fight for conservative principles that can fight for substance, we cannot be dragged backward, by the very dangerous lies of a former president,” she said.