Liz Cheney PAC hits Trump in New Hampshire ad buy
Reese Gorman
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s super PAC, The Great Task, released its first ad of the 2024 presidential cycle, titled “Risk,” and warns voters against voting for former President Donald Trump.
The 60-second ad is airing in New Hampshire and shows the events leading up to and during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Cheney does not appear in the ad herself but is doing the voice-over throughout.
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“Rather than accept his defeat, he mobilized a mob to come to Washington and march on the Capitol,” Cheney says of Trump in the ad. “Then he watched on television while the mob attacked law enforcement, invaded the Capitol, and hunted the vice president.”
Cheney, who voted to impeach the former president after the storming of the Capitol and was a leading voice on the Jan. 6 select committee that investigated the insurrection, says, “There has never been a greater dereliction of duty by any president.”
“Donald Trump is a risk America can never take again,” Cheney says at the end of the ad.
Cheney started The Great Task after losing her primary election to a Trump-endorsed candidate, Harriet Hageman. In a statement, Hageman said Cheney might as well be “setting money on fire” because her ads against Trump won’t work.
“There is one person who Republican voters wish would go away, and it’s not Donald Trump. It’s Liz Cheney,” Hageman said. “Her personal vendetta against President Trump knows no bounds, and she’s proven it once again with this ad.”
The PAC supports centrist candidates for office and opposes what Cheney views as more extreme candidates.
In Arizona, The Great Task spent $500,000 opposing the Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and the Republican secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem.
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“The Great Task is a multi-candidate PAC sponsored by Congresswoman Liz Cheney that is focused on reverence for the rule of law, respect for our Constitution, and a recognition that all citizens have a responsibility to put their duty to the country above partisanship,” the PAC’s website reads. “The Great Task is designed to educate and mobilize Americans in a unified effort to ensure that our Republic endures.”
According to FEC records, the PAC has $3.6 million on hand.
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.