Whether by default or by design, Liz Cheney has become the leader of the Republican resistance.

Bush and Dick Cheney, especially on Iraq and endless wars.

Liz Cheney didn’t run against Trump when she was elected to the House in 2016, after a disastrous earlier Senate bid.

The deepening divide has hurt Cheney back home, where she faces a primary next year against two state lawmakers who are trying to appeal to the Trump base.

That prompted this tweet from Cheney: "The 2020 presidential election was not stolen.

CNN reports that Cheney remained adamant at a private American Enterprise Institute conference on Monday, saying the party can’t swallow the "poison" of arguing the election was rigged.

On "Fox & Friends" yesterday, McCarthy said the angst over Cheney wasn’t about her impeachment vote: "I have heard from members concerned about her ability to carry out the job as conference chair, to carry out the message," so "we can all work together instead of attacking one another." That, of course, was a pretty clear message.

In a secret ballot in February, House Republicans voted to keep Cheney in her No.

All this has made Cheney an unlikely heroine for the media, most of whose members side with anyone who opposes Trump.

For those who covered her father in the Bush administration, it’s a head-snapping moment to watch the media line up behind a Cheney