Liz Cheney spars with GOP challengers over 2020 election, Jan. 6 attack in first debate
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Republican Rep. Liz Cheney was able to find common ground with her four challengers for Wyoming's lone congressional seat on issues including voting against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, supporting America's energy systems and reprimanding the Biden administration during their first debate Thursday night.
But when it came to topics such as the Jan. 6 committee's findings and the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, she found herself an outlier. And Cheney's belief that the 2020 election was not stolen could cost her her seat.
Throughout the debate, Cheney, the vice chair on the Jan. 6 select committee, cited recent findings from the committee's hearings and testimony from former President Donald Trump's family and staffers that "there was not sufficient fraud to overturn the results of the 2020 election." She added that it is a "tragedy" that Trump and other Republicans wrongly claimed it was stolen.
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