In 2009, Cheney and Bill Kristol founded Keep America Safe, a nonprofit organization concerned with national security issues that supported the Bush–Cheney administration's positions.

[6] Regarded as a leading ideological neoconservative[7][8][9] in the Bush–Cheney tradition as well as representative of the Republican establishment,[10] Cheney is known for her pro-business stances and hawkish foreign policy views.

She received her BA from Colorado College, her mother's alma mater, where she wrote a senior thesis entitled "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers.

[34] In 2002, Cheney was appointed deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs,[35][36] a preexisting vacant post with an "economic portfolio", a mandate to promote investment in the region.

[47] Cheney also headed the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG), established in March 2006, a unit within the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.

In a press release issued at the beginning of his campaign, Thompson said he was "very pleased to announce that former senators Abraham and Allen, as well as Liz Cheney, will serve as co-chairs of my national leadership team".

He added: "These distinguished individuals bring wise counsel and invaluable experience to my campaign leadership team, and they will play a critical role in helping spread my consistent conservative message across America.

[58] Cheney was expected to receive strong fundraising, but was subject to public perceptions of carpetbagging, having lived in Wyoming only a few years as a child before purchasing a home there in 2012.

[64] Cheney's campaign was marred by criticism from her championing of "hawkish" foreign policy positions to a public spat with her sister over her opposition to same-sex marriage.

Tribal nations hold the grizzly sacred, and environmentalists have voiced concerns about trophy hunts, livestock and logging interests, and the gas, coal, and oil extraction industries.

"[79] Cheney partly blamed the Democratic Party and the impeachment inquiry into Trump for Turkey's actions, saying, "It was not an accident that the Turks chose this moment to roll across the border.

[83] Beginning during his time as a Dublin, California city councilman, Eric Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese woman believed to be an undercover officer of China's Ministry of State Security.

[97] Jim Jordan (one of 139 House members, and 8 senators, who voted for — or supported — the objections to the Electoral College count) called for her removal from Republican Party leadership.

"[106] She rejected the Wyoming party's demands that she step down and noted the censure incorrectly asserted that the Capitol attack was instigated by antifa and Black Lives Matter.

[127] While addressing the committee in June 2022, Cheney "offered a stark message to members of her party who continue to support former president Donald Trump and downplay the events of Jan. 6.

The resolution reiterated the general complaint for which it had censured her the previous February, saying that Cheney had never provided "quantifiable and or undisputed evidence" for why she had voted in favor of impeachment.

"[140] Jake Bernstein argued that "Liz Cheney is a true conservative in every sense of the word and she's only a moderate in relation to the radicalism that has seized the Republican party.

[116] The Brookings Institution argued that Cheney has a long-term strategy to become the leader of the Republican Party in the post-Trump era, and that "she's a real conservative—Democrats who like her opposition to Trump will never like her politics.

"[144] Conservative Republican John Bolton has described Cheney as "a person of integrity and character" who is involved in politics for philosophical reasons rather than self-interest, and who shares the determination of her father.

[25] Following her primary defeat in August 2022, Cheney filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership political action committee (PAC) named The Great Task.

[150][151][152] On September 4, 2024, Cheney told a group of students at Duke University that she would be voting for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, stating that, "As a conservative and someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution ...

)[155] In October 2022, she endorsed Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin for reelection over Republican nominee Tom Barrett, a Michigan state senator who questioned the results of the 2020 election.

[172][better source needed] According to Mother Jones, Cheney insists "that one of the main lies of the Bush-Cheney fraudulent case for war—that there had been a significant connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq—was true.

"[173] New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has commented that Cheney used "her patronage perch in the State Department during the Bush-Cheney years ... [and] bolstered her father's trumped-up case for an invasion of Iraq" while cheering "on her dad as he spread fear, propaganda and warped intelligence".

[178] On September 18, 2019, she called for the United States to consider a "proportional military response" against Iran after it was attacking oil bases in the Saudi regions of Abqaiq and Khurais.

[188] In 2018, when U.S. senator John McCain criticized CIA director nominee Gina Haspel, Cheney again defended the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, saying that they "saved lives, prevented attacks, and produced intel that led to Osama bin Laden".

[196] This caused a public falling-out with her sister, Mary Cheney, who is gay and wrote in a Facebook post, "Either [y]ou think all families should be treated equally or you don't.

[202] Cheney, stating she had, "always been strongly pro-life" spoke in praise of the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade as part of their Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling.

On September 6, 2024, her father Dick Cheney announced that he is supporting Kamala Harris and the Democratic ticket for president of the United States and that Trump is a "threat to our republic" and a "coward" and that "he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him."

[216] Kamala Harris' campaign welcomed Cheney's support, a move criticized by Ilhan Omar, The Nation, and Newsweek as ineffective due to her bipartisan unpopularity.