Liz Cheney: “It was founded by people who were opposed to slavery.”

“Now, you all know, of course, that here in Ripon, the Republican Party was founded. It was founded in a meeting in 1854 in the Little White schoolhouse, and It was founded by people who were opposed to slavery. It was that republican party, the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower, party of Reagan and Bush. It's that party that I belonged to my entire life. I volunteered on my first presidential campaign.” (02:26–02:32)

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