Former President George W. Bush to hold fundraiser for Liz Cheney

Former President George W. Bush will appear as a special guest at an upcoming fundraiser for Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, whose unwavering criticism of former President Donald Trump has sparked a vicious backlash within her own party.

The fundraiser for Cheney, the daughter of Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, will take place in Dallas on Oct. 18, multiple outlets reported. Other attendees include former Bush advisors Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, and former Texas senator and U.S. ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, outlets reported.

“President Bush is impressed by Liz Cheney’s strength and vision, and he’s proud to support her,” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told CNBC in an email.

“This one shouldn’t come as any surprise,” Ford added, saying Bush “has historically helped a few key candidates and friends each cycle.” But Bush has largely stayed mum on electoral politics since leaving the White House in 2009 with overwhelmingly negative approval ratings.

Under the Trump administration, however, some polls showed Bush becoming significantly more popular.

Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, said they did not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 2020, Bush said he wrote in the name of Condoleezza Rice, his former secretary of state.

But he spoke out after the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, saying it “made me sick.” Without mentioning Trump by name, Bush lamented that the Republican Party has grown “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist.”

On the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush said that the violent extremists in the U.S. and those abroad are “children of the same foul spirit.”

Cheney, who represents conservative-leaning Wyoming, was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. That handful of Republicans has since come under fire — not just from Trump’s loyalists in Congress, but also from Trump himself.

One of those 10, Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, said last week that he will not seek reelection, calling Trump “a cancer for the country.”

Trump responded: “1 down, 9 to go!”

Some Trump-allied Republicans in her chamber have openly called for Cheney’s removal from Congress. And earlier this month, Trump formally endorsed Harriet Hageman, a primary opponent of Cheney. His statement endorsing Hageman called Cheney a “disloyal Republican,” a “RINO” — a derisive acronym deployed against Republicans accused of behaving like Democrats — and “the Democrats[’] number one provider of sound bites.”

But Cheney remains defiant.

“Here’s a sound bite for you: Bring it,” she shot back at Trump.

Cheney was stripped of her role as the No. 3-ranking House Republican after she refused to stop sounding off on Trump for his role in the Capitol riot.

After losing the election to President Joe Biden, Trump spent weeks fomenting false election conspiracies, while he and his allies filed lawsuits aimed at overturning states’ election results. At a rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, Trump repeated the false election-rigging claims to a crowd of supporters, then directed the supporters toward the Capitol to pressure Republicans not to confirm Biden’s victory.

Trump was impeached in the House but was acquitted in the Senate, where 60 votes were required to convict him.

Despite the pressure from her colleagues, Cheney also continues to actively engage with the Democratic-majority House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.

The panel was assembled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after Senate Republicans voted down a bid to form an equally bipartisan, “9/11-style” commission.

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[came]

Bush and Cheney, the new darlings of the leftist media. Lol.

[thejeffinvade]

Traditional republicans are disappearing right in front of our eyes.

[IBenZik]

And GW wonders why Jeb was left in the dirt!

[andrewolearnick]

Enough of these lifelong political families. They have stolen their share. Let someone else steal some.

[a_angry_bunny]

Bush is wasting his time with the fundraiser. No one in Wyoming is going to vote for Cheney no matter how much money they pour into her campaign.
Cheney has already lost.

[ask_why]

Hey Baby Bush,
Has anyone found that WMD in Iraq yet…?
No?
I didn’t think so, but yet you declared, “Mission Accomplished”.

[corrado]

Liz, you don't have a chance in hell. Lol,

[topcat]

Don’t waste your time and money on Liz Cheney!!!! She’s a joke as a politician!!!!

[scottbo]

Mr Bush really China Cheney the Democratic Republican.

[NPak-cwny]

Liz Cheney Hits Trump Ahead of Fundraiser With Bush: ‘I Like Republican Presidents Who Win Re-Election’

[TWN]

Smart Republicans should leave the party and create a rational conservative alternative. Republican Party is owned by Trump now

[jetsons]

QUIT TALKING AND START THE IMPEACHMENT... All the woke must I liked bush till today.

[clubberlang]

Liz Cheney? Daughter of the 911 co conspirator

[pamelasmith]

Lizzie Cheney took an ax and gave President Trump forty whacks
When she saw what she had done she gave all Republicans forty one

[joeyphounsavath]

Liz Cheney mocks Trump over bizarre insult: ‘I like Republican presidents who win re-election’. That is so good, Liz. Donnie is twice impaeched, re'election loser, failed businessman, and king of bankruptcies. So much for calling himself, STABLE GENIUS, lol.

[danknot]

Governor Ann Richards described both George’s best “neither one can help it they was both born with a silver spoon in their mouths” George needs to hold a fund raiser for Scooter Libby the way both Cheney and Bush did him,

[JohnSmith-ryri]

Well Liz who are you going to distance yourself from first?

[patricksachs]

Liz Cheney has lost the confidence of the Republican Party, the people of Wyoming and of the nation. It's worth noting that the same person who is coming out flor Liz Cheney now also supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. That, and the fact that NBC is trying to prop up Cheney here should tell the good people of Wyoming all they need to know.

[carolinaortega]

I hope Wyoming keep supporting Liz cause is the only one from the republican party the tell the true

[michaelbaker]

Cheney represents herself. Not those who voted for her. This is the PROBLEM with most elected politicians today! They pander to their base, then do whatever they want once elected. Cheney will NEVER be reelected.