By Cheryl Teh
Senior Breaking News Reporter
Business Insider
The Lincoln Project — an anti-Trump conservative group — said this week that Rep. Liz Cheney’s loss in her Wyoming GOP primary race marked the demise of the old Republican Party.
“Tonight, the nation marks the end of the Republican Party,” read the organization’s statement released Tuesday.
“What remains shares the name and branding of the traditional GOP, but is in fact an authoritarian nationalist cult dedicated only to Donald Trump,” the statement added.
Lauding Cheney, the Lincoln Project’s team said she had “stood up to the lawless, reckless attack on our nation” that Trump led.