Liz Cheney didn't feel the need to join the Freedom Caucus when she first joined Congress. In her new book, Cheney wrote that Jim Jordan asked her to join the group by pointing to its lack of women. AdvertisementEven at the beginning of her first term in the House, Liz Cheney was skeptical of the Freedom Caucus. AdvertisementCheney's predecessor, now-Sen. Cynthia Lummis, was a member of the Freedom Caucus during her time in the lower chamber. "My voting record was more conservative than those of many members of the Freedom Caucus, a supposedly 'conservative' group," she added.

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