Liz Cheney suggests possible need for new political party amid family's anti-Trump stance

Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris has racked up some eyebrow-raising endorsements in recent weeks, including from some seemingly unlikely sources from across the political aisle.

Now that members of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney's family have stepped up to offer support to Harris, former Rep. Liz Cheney has come forward to suggest that the formation of a new party may be necessary to cleanse what she sees as the GOP's sin of unbridled Trumpism, as the New York Times reports.

Liz Cheney holds forth

Known for both her ongoing feud with Trump and her crushing defeat in her last campaign for re-election to her former Wyoming House seat, Liz Cheney recently weighed in on the state of the Republican Party of which she is supposedly a member.

She opined that should Trump go down to defeat in November, it may be necessary for a new party altogether to spring up in place of the GOP as the only way to move forward from its links to the former president.

It is Cheney's belief that the Republican Party in its current composition may not endure if Trump loses, given its members' apparent willingness to hand to reins to someone of – she believes – such questionable character and quality.

“Whether it's organizing a new party -- look, it's hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly that people ought to vote for Republican candidates until it really recognizes what it's done,” said Cheney.

The former lawmaker went on to stated that “The party itself really has rejected the Constitution in the name of supporting Trump” and “because, again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man,” a new party may be in order “that actually can be making the case for the kind of conservative causes that I believe in.”

Family affair

Liz Cheney has made no bones about the fact that she plans to support Kamala Harris come Nov. 5, a move in which she has been joined by her father, Dick Cheney.

Though Harris has touted their support as a symbol of her supposed bipartisan appeal and of the allegedly extreme nature of Trump's candidacy, critics such as Tom Joyce have suggested that the situation is harsh indictment of the nominee, the former VP, and his daughter all at once.

In an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner entitled “Accepting Dick Cheney's endorsement shows Kamala Harris stands for Nothing,” Joyce noted, “Almost nobody in America liked Dick Cheney by the end of his eight-year tenure as vice president. He left the office with a 13% approval rating,” and he went on to cite Cheney's positions on the Iraq War, waterboarding, gay marriage, and more, stances which caused the left to revile him like no other.

“Cheney and Harris might not align on policy, but what does that matter? Harris lacks many hard-set policies and will say and do whatever she thinks will help win her the presidency,” Joyce went on.

He continued, “Harris wants to be president, so if that means embracing a politician who was once one of the most disliked men in American she will do it,” and as far as Liz Cheney goes, she will endorse someone who, up until this summer, was the most unpopular vice president in history, as long as it might help send her nemesis -- Donald Trump -- down to defeat, any supposed belief in conservative principles be damned.