All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections,” she wrote on X early Wednesday morning. Cheney, a former Republican member of the U.

Liz Cheney said that the democratic system “functioned last night” as Donald Trump was elected to a new term in the White House, but said that it would be up to citizens, courts, the press and those in government to be the “guardrails of democracy.

Cheney joined the one day before Americans head to the polls, and urged voters to be cautious that Trump has "already begun pushing notions about rigged elections."