Liz Cheney predicted that Donald Trump will turn the United States into a dictatorship if he wins a second term in 2024.
Cheney, a vocal Trump critic who was forced out of the Republican Congress over her views on Trump, said she would do "whatever it takes" to stop Trump, even if it means voting for Joe Biden.
“A vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in," she told NBC's Today. "A vote for Donald Trump is a vote against the Constitution."
According to Cheney, the "threat" of Trump winning and never relinquishing power is "very, very real."
"I think it’s a very, very real threat and concern. And I don’t say any of that lightly and frankly, it’s painful for me as someone who has spent her whole life in Republican politics," she said.
Cheney said it's "painful" to "watch what’s happening to my party and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power and his success."
Cheney later told the Washington Post she would consider running for president as a third-party candidate to stop Trump.
Trump has shown remarkable resilience, despite an effort to railroad his presidential campaign with politically driven criminal indictments.
Mainstream media have begun to hit the panic button, fearful that voters struggling with painful inflation will give Trump another chance at governing.
The Atlantic, a major liberal magazine, dedicated an entire issue to various apocalyptic scenarios "if Trump wins."
The Washington Post warned that a Trump "dictatorship" is "increasingly inevitable" and compared Trump to Julius Caeser.
While Trump's critics have warned that America's democracy is at stake in the election, Trump has begun to dispute the claim on its merits, painting Biden as the real threat to democracy.
Trump is facing multiple criminal investigations, all led by Democrats, and a concerted lawfare campaign to block him from the ballot.
If elected, Trump promises to liberate the country from Biden's "banana republic."
“They’ve been waging an all-out war on American democracy,” Trump said Saturday. “If you put me back in the White House, that reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”
