Aug. 17, 2022: Scoop: Liz Cheney’s next move
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by Facebook. |
| 0:02.0 | Good morning Playbookers. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Ragumonovalin. It's Wednesday. |
| 0:06.0 | We got some details on the newly primary Liz Cheney's next move. |
| 0:10.0 | It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. |
| 0:12.0 | Representative Liz Cheney is wasting no time, beginning the next phase of her bid to prevent Donald Trump's return to office. |
| 0:21.2 | Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler tells Playbook exclusively, quote, |
| 0:24.3 | In coming weeks, Liz will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our republic, |
| 0:30.8 | and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president. |
| 0:35.6 | The new group, which will serve as Cheney's primary political |
| 0:38.3 | vehicle, as she considers whether to run for president in 2024, does not have an official |
| 0:43.4 | name yet. An informed guest, The Great Task, which was the name of Cheney's final ad of the campaign. |
| 0:48.9 | The phrase is from the last sentence of the Gittiesburg address, and Cheney also referenced |
| 0:53.2 | it in her concession speech last night from Jackson, Wyoming. |
| 0:57.0 | Worth noting, Cheney will be on NBC's Today Show at 7 a.m. |
| 1:01.0 | Cheney lost her seat, but she gained something else. |
| 1:04.0 | She's now the undisputed leader of the Trump opposition. |
| 1:07.0 | Worth noting that competition wasn't very stiff. |
| 1:09.0 | Top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, are still hesitants to focus exclusively on Trump, |
| 1:15.0 | despite believing that he represents a unique threat to American democracy. |
| 1:19.2 | Never Trump Republicans, like former Ohio Governor John Kasich, have struggled to remain relevant |
| 1:24.1 | out of office when their main platform is a cable news panel. |
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