In an early Wednesday statement to NBC, Cheney said she was "thinking about" a 2024 presidential run - and has launched a new political organization called "The Great Task," a reference to President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

"That's a decision that I'm going to make in the coming months," she said, adding "It is something that I'm thinking about."

"I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office and I mean it." 

In addition to her new PAC, Cheney will have a public forum for her campaign against Trump as vice chair of the committee investigating the former president's role in the Capitol insurrection until she leaves Congress in January. Cheney was a rising Republican star until she stood up to Trump. After she voted to impeach Trump in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters, the political costs for Cheney's defiance mounted. The Wyoming Republican Party voted to censure her and asked her to resign. Then she was removed as the third-ranking  House Republican leader by her colleagues, who accused her of abandoning the party.  That culminated in her loss Tuesday to Hageman by a two-to-one margin with half the votes counted. -Bloomberg