Rep. Liz Cheney(R-Wyo.), the outgoing congresswoman who became one of former President rump’s most ardent Republican critic, said that she is willing to campaign for Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections. 

Asked during a discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin over the weekend whether she would be open to crossing party lines to boost Democratic candidates, Cheney responded bluntly: “Yes.”Cheney’s answer was her latest swipe at the GOP and its candidates.

A lifelong Republican, Cheney has become increasingly critical of her party over the past year and a half after she voted to impeach the rump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. 

She’s repeatedly lamented the former president’s iron grip on the GOP and its hard-right direction, and is one of only two Republicans sitting on the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 riot. 

Of course, she has also paid a political price for her criticism. She lost renomination to her House seat last month to Republican Harriet Hageman, a Trump-backed attorney who relentlessly attacked Cheney for her disloyalty to the former president.

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