Yet, her candor has also drawn a national following that could distinguish her from the rest of the GOP field should she run for president in 2024.

“She embodies the little boy in the ’emperor has no clothes’ who supplied the necessary dose of reality,” Ty Cobb, a former Trump White House lawyer who has donated $2,000 to her campaign, told NBC News. “She’s the one in the crowd who says, ‘He’s nekkid.'”

“The ‘big lie’ led to Jan. 6 and somebody needed to call it out, and she did a courageous job of it,” he added. “We need more truth and more courage in America today—across the board.”…

The anti-Trump wing of the party has found a champion in Cheney. At a time when few Republican politicians are willing to cross Trump, the congresswoman has made it her singular focus to stop him from getting “anywhere near the Oval Office ever again,” as she puts it.

“She will be a force — a force — in bringing Donald Trump down,” former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., said. “And that will be her mission.”