Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican opponent in Congress, Rep. Liz Cheney, lost to a rival backed by the former president in a GOP primary Tuesday.
Trump’s backing gave Harriet Hageman a strong boost in the state, where he won by the widest margin during his 2020 campaign, so the third-term Congresswoman and her allies entered today downbeat. She was already looking toward a political future beyond Capitol Hill that could include a run for the presidency in 2024, potentially putting her on a collision course with Trump once more.
At a gathering of supporters, Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, spoke at a field bordered by mountains and bales of hay as she described her loss as a new beginning. Cheney said, “Our work is far from over,”
In Cheyenne, 400 miles east, Hageman supporters gathered at an outdoor rodeo and Western culture festival wearing cowboy boots, hats, and blue jeans.
GOP’s rapid shift to the right was evident in the results. A formerly national security-oriented, business-friendly party now belongs to Trump.
His statements about election fraud, which federal and state election officials have roundly rejected along with Trump’s own attorney general and judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms.
Two years ago, Cheney’s defeat would have been unimaginable. Liz Cheney comes from a prominent political family in Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president. In Washington, she was the No. 3 House Republican, an influential voice in Republican politics and policy.
As a result of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by a mob of Trump supporters, Cheney voted to impeach Trump and set out to ensure he would never again hold the office. Despite GOP censure and death threats, she served as a leader on the congressional panel investigating Trump’s involvement in the insurrection.
By the end of January, Cheney will be forced to resign from Congress, and her departure from Capitol Hill is not expected to be quiet. Until the end of the year, she will continue to lead the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack. She is also actively considering a presidential run in 2024, whether as a Republican or independent, and has vowed to fight Trump’s influence within her party.
It has been a one-sided battle so far. Ahead of the November midterm elections, Tuesday’s primary contests in Wyoming and Alaska demonstrated Trump’s enduring strength. He has helped install loyalists who support his theories from Pennsylvania to Arizona. Hageman, a ranching industry attorney, echoing Trump, said that the 2020 election was “rigged.”
As a result of Cheney’s loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are becoming extinct.
Trump’s impeachment was backed by seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House members after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol when Congress attempted to certify Biden’s victory. So far this year, only two of those 10 House members have won their primaries, and Murkowski remains the only such Senate Republican this year after two other senators retired.
Sounds like the article feels sorry for Cheney. What she is doing with the January 6th hearings is disgraceful. No other Republicans on the committee except never Trumpers. Phoney Russia story 2 fake impeachments. The people are not blind what Schiff and Shumer ar doing. Its Stalinest like with the accused having no defense and they hired a Hollywood producer to make the fake look real. Answer this what is wrong with saying America first ?
The Cheney family has never had the good of the America people at heart.
Vice President Cheney owned a company that made military arms and he made billions starting and keeping the war in Iraq going, along with Bush. How can any American forget this use of our tax money to encourage a war with another country!!!!
The Chaney family keeps attacking President Trump because he told the American public exactly how Dick Chaney , while vice president, was chairman and CEO of Halliburton and received a multi billion dollar contract with Halliburton. In the run up to the Iraq War Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which only Halliburton was allowed to bid. Chaney promoted the continuation of the war so his family could keep the was money flowing to them. Looks like this family is war mongers just to enrich themselves. President Trump called them out on this and they have been trying to destroy President Trump ever since. People are not as stupid as the Cheney family would have people believe and we do not forget them selling out our country and the lives of our troops.
The comment – By the end of January, Cheney will be forced to resign from Congress – is the first time I’ve heard it phrased this way when a politician has not been invited back (she lost her re-election campaign. She is not leaving by resignation)
This is probably the first time reading “Loyal Conservatives”
Seems very biased and not very conservative
Her new pronouns now are loser, done.
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