Liz Cheney is 'very worried' about election deniers seeking office in 2022: 'They must be defeated'

In an interview for a CNN special report on the House January 6 Committee's investigation, Liz Cheney said she's very worried about election-denying candidates running for office and that they must be defeated in the next elections.

Cheney, the vice-chair of the House panel probing January 6, lost the Republican primary for another term in Congress representing Wyoming to a Trump supporter.

I'm very concerned. I don't think those people are going to win. The full interview with Cheney will air on CNN at 9 pm. The information was obtained by Politico. The responsibility that we all have to make sure that we protect our republic and institutions has to be above politics.

In 27 states, Republican candidates for governor, attorney general, and secretary of state who have denied the outcome of the 2020 election will be on the ballot. There are candidates running for all three of those offices in November.

Cheney said that it didn't matter what party someone belonged to. They have to be defeated if they are running on the basis of refusing to certify election results in the future.

In key states like Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada, the candidates are positioning themselves to win the election if Donald Trump runs again.

"That is a threat to the survival of the republic, and I think those people have to be defeated," Cheney said.

Several Republican candidates who lost their races by wide margins, refused to concede their losses, and in some cases, sought recounts, are among the election deniers who made the ballot.

Donald Trump refused to concede defeat in the November election. The highest-profile candidate to break from the norm in 2020 was Trump, who refused to concede his loss to Biden even after his supporters went to the Capitol to protest.

Six of the 20 Republican candidates for US Senate and governor who were surveyed by the New York Times did not confirm that they would accept the results of their election.

The Washington Post found that a dozen top GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates would not commit to accepting the results of their races this fall or did not respond, with several of those who did casting doubt on the security of their state's voting systems.