Eli Lake, Columnist

Republican Hawks Need Liz Cheney in the Senate

As a senator, she would be in a better position to check Trump’s isolationist tendencies.

June 30, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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The Trump Era has been pretty good so far for the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2016, Elizabeth Cheney won her first term as Wyoming’s sole member of the House of Representatives. Two years later, her colleagues elected her as chair of the Republican conference, the No. 3 position in party leadership.

Now she faces a crossroads. In May, Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming announced he would be retiring in 2020. Cheney has 11 months to decide whether to run for his seat. She challenged Enzi in 2014, but withdrew seven months before the primary, citing family matters. Next year presents an opportunity to pick up where that campaign left off.