Analysts shocked as Liz Cheney turns into liberal media darling: 'A head-snapping moment'

Harlow, her co-anchor Jim Sciutto, and their CNN panel lavished praise on Cheney, with POLITICO congressional reporter Melanie Zanona marveling that the congresswoman is now "on the verge of becoming a woman in exile in the GOP." But, Zanona said, Cheney "is doing what she believes is right for the country." "They’re trying to silence her and tell her to shut up," Zanona later said of the Republicans, with Harlow nodding along and saying, "that's a great point." Similarly, CNN political pundit Sophia Nelson penned a blunt USA Today piece entitled, ""Rep. Liz Cheney is courageous while Republican men are profiles in cowardice."