In Desperation, Liz Cheney Reaches Out to Wyoming Democrats

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Less than two months out from the Republican primary in Wyoming, Rep. Liz Cheney is facing almost insurmountable odds in her race against Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman. With two recent polls showing the congresswoman seriously trailing her opponent, her campaign is now reaching out to Wyoming Democrats for support.

“In the last week, Wyoming Democrats have received mail from Ms. Cheney’s campaign with specific instructions on how to change their party affiliation to vote for her. Ms. Cheney’s campaign website now has a link to a form for changing parties,” according to The New York Times.

The Times explains that, in Wyoming, it is not all that unusual for Republican candidates to ask Democrats to switch parties ahead of primaries. Wyoming is a bright red state where registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by a 4 to 1 ratio, the report said.

The issue is that, in a February interview with the Times, Cheney was asked if she might resort to this strategy and she replied: “That is not something that I have contemplated, that I have organized or that I will organize.“ She said she would “work hard for every single vote.”

But that was then and this is now and you know what they say about desperate times.

It’s unlikely Wyomingites in either party will take kindly to Cheney’s latest flip-flop.

Asked for a comment on Cheney’s new strategy, Hageman’s campaign manager Carly Miller said, “Liz Cheney told The New York Times that she wouldn’t be encouraging Democrats to raid the Republican primary, but I guess the drive to hold onto power is just too strong for her to keep her word.”

She added, “What Cheney doesn’t understand is that Democrats will drop her like a bad habit after she’s no longer useful to them on the Jan. 6 committee.”

Joseph Barbuto, the chairman of the Wyoming Democratic Party, told the Times his social media feeds have been filled with posts from Democrats who’ve received the instructions from the Cheney campaign.

“Even if every Democrat in the state switched over,” Barbuto said, “I don’t think it’d be enough to help her.”

He said that while Democrats in the state are grateful for Cheney’s service on the Jan. 6 committee, “she still has a voting record that was, 97 percent of the time, with Donald Trump while he was in office.”

Republicans in the state turned against Cheney following her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. And her vendetta against him ever since has alienated them even more.

The Casper Star-Tribune reported on two recent polls which each surveyed approximately 400 Wyoming Republican voters.

The first, commissioned by the Club for Growth, a national conservative political action committee, and conducted between May 24 and 25, asked participants whom they would vote for if the election were held today. Fifty-six percent gave their support to Hageman, 26 percent to Cheney, 12 percent to state Sen. Anthony Bouchard and six percent were undecided, according to the Star-Tribune.

The second poll was commissioned by Wyoming Values, a pro-Hageman Super PAC, and conducted between June 1 and 2. Hageman again received 56 percent; Cheney, 28 percent; Bouchard, 8 percent; and 7 percent were undecided.

The margin of error for each poll was approximately 5 percent.

Moreover, these surveys were taken ahead of Cheney’s participation in the sham Jan. 6 hearings and before her vote for gun control legislation, neither of which will endear her to Republicans in the state.

Although we should never say never, it would take a miracle for Cheney to hold onto her seat.

Simply put, Republicans will not vote for someone they do not trust.

 

 

A previous version of this article was published on The Western Journal.
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2 thoughts on “In Desperation, Liz Cheney Reaches Out to Wyoming Democrats”

  1. I look forward to the day when Liz Cheney is described as a former member of Congress. Given that I don’t watch MSNBC, I will likely never see her again.

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