Does Liz Cheney Have a Chance in 2024?

So, now that Liz Cheney is dedicating herself to a national effort to bounce Trump out of contention for 2024, it turns out that her presence in the race could do exactly the opposite: she could pull enough votes away from Biden to get Trump back into the White House again. At least this is what the most recent poll appears to show, which is that Cheney would end up playing the same role in 2024 that Ross Perot played in 1992.

Remember good ol’ Ross? He was the guy who grabbed almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, and although he didn’t receive any Electoral College votes, he probably cost George H. W. Bush to lose a bunch of states. His campaign took a nosedive when he showed up at the NAACP Convention and referred to his audience as ‘your people,’ which was about as unfeelingly racist as you can get.

I’m not saying that Liz Cheney doesn’t have the smarts or experience to run a national campaign and avoid making the kinds of mistakes that caught Ross Perot by the seat of his pants. What I am saying is that if she were to run as a candidate committed to cleaning up the GOP, I’m afraid that her real appeal would be to those so-called ‘progressive’ Democrats who still believe that the Democratic Party owes something to Bernie Sanders for screwing him out of the nomination in 2016.