"Do liberals love Liz Cheney? Of course not. Nor should we. She’s a super-hawkish neocon. She defended torture. There’s a reason she was ascending the ladder of GOP House leadership in the 2010s. Yes, she had a pedigree, but also, she was totally fine with everything the GOP stood for.
But then Trump happened, and she stood up to say no. "
~ Michael Tomasky
As Tomasky says, the point is, can Cheney move votes?