her race because that is what years actually supposed to do when you lose an election. concede. our republic relies on the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections and tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over but now the real work begins. [applause] congresswoman cheney also made a point of calling out election dire nine republicans across the country any hinted that this is not the last you will hear from liz cheney. today as we meet here there are republican candidates for governor who deny the outcome of the 2020 election and who may refuse to certify future elections if they oppose the results. we have candidates for secretary of state who may refuse to report the actual results of the popular vote in future elections. no american should support election deniers for any position of general responsibility where their refusal t
out of the state of wyoming, where earlier tonight liz cheney was defeated by a trump backed primary challenger. congresswoman cheney concede her race because that is what you are actually supposed to do when you lose an election. concede. our republic relies on the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections and tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over but now the real work begins. [applause] congresswoman cheney also made a point of calling out election dire nine republicans across the country any hinted that this is not the last you will hear from liz cheney. today as we meet here there are republican candidates for governor who deny the outcome of the 2020 election and who may refuse to certify future elections if they oppose the results. we have candidates for secretary of state who may refuse to report the actual results of th
from alaska. do you think that is made any difference of this? how much should lisa murkowski should be worried about her election bid? we ll, if we still have a close republican primaries she d still be in big trouble. her approval ratings are very low among republicans. we don t have a partisan primary anymore. all of the candidates will appear on the same ballot and voters will be able to rank them, and a system like that really favors murkowski in the primary liz cheney was primaried lost in a republican primary. murkowski will easily survive, she ll be one of the top four that survive that advance to the general. so she doesn t have anything to worry about in the primary. let me ask you about the democrat or may make it in the
democrat who may make it in the system. mrs. peltola. correct me if i m wrong here, she ll be one of the first members of the tribal nation to make it to congress if she succeeds. is that right? she would be the first indigenous alaskan to be in congress. i just spoke to her a couple of minutes ago and she is pretty excited and also saying it s going to be a long time until we know. all right. liz ruskin, washington correspondent for alaska public media. thank you for your time tonight. we will be patient. i am now thrilled to bring in the host of the last word, the great lawrence o donnell. lawrence, there s no better night to talk to you about this when we talk about liz cheney, daughter of dick cheney and sarah palin s potential return to washington, not the u.s. house of representatives. i m here under one condition. i don t have to say anything
job of being a member of congress, so she s totally free to be out there whether as a print as presidential candidate or not. but beyond all the shows that want that leading spokes person in the republican world against donald trump was still a republican. we have plenty here, stewart stevens and others who were abandoned the party who are strong republicans, but she is fighting for the survival of the republican party without donald trump. i guess the question is, the battle is, who are her foot soldiers in that battle. certain are there are some never trumpers, some democrats it can be very. small the question, is can she pull some republicans over? i wonder as a creature of capitol hill, does her departure from congress make kevin mccarthy s life easier or harder? because i think the conventional wisdom would be, kevin mccarthy is probably saying to liz cheney don t let the door ayo on the way out. at the same time, i m sure their people and kevin mccarthy