Liz Cheney: Company America ‘has an actual duty’ to not assist election deniers

That’s based on Liz Cheney,  the Republican U.S. consultant for Wyoming, who spoke Tuesday about what working girls must succeed, her potential presidential bid, and, in fact, former President Donald Trump throughout Fortune’s Most Highly effective Girls summit in California. 

Talking by way of livestream with Alyson Shontell, Fortune‘s editor-in-chief, Cheney repeated her perception that election denialism fueled by the previous president and propagated by a brand new class of Republican politicians is placing America’s democracy at stake.

Cheney misplaced her major bid earlier this yr after she grew to become a vocal critic of Trump. Although many anticipate Cheney to run for president herself in 2024, she skirted the query on the convention, as a substitute reiterating that she is targeted on her work with the Home choose committee investigating the January 6, 2021 capitol rebel.

“It has actually demonstrated the breadth and the depth of the trouble to overturn the election and to cease the peaceable switch of energy,” Cheney mentioned concerning the work of the committee. “And it was an effort that at each step of the way in which the previous president was deeply concerned in.”

She mentioned that firms play a “vastly vital position” in defending American democracy. For one, they’ll select to not donate to and assist politicians who promote lies that election outcomes are pretend or rigged.

She pointed to the election in Arizona—through which Gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, U.S. Senate nominee Blake Masters, and Secretary of State nominee Mark Finchem have all echoed Trump’s lies concerning the 2020 presidential election outcomes—for instance of the place firms can step up.

“Like all voters, company America has an actual duty to be clear concerning the sorts of politics that they’re going to reward and incentivize, and the sorts of leaders that they’re going to reward and incentivize,” Cheney mentioned.