In the most-watched congressional race this year, Rep. Liz Cheney lost in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Wyoming to a challenger who supports Donald Trump, having inflamed anger against the former president with her vows to impeach him and her work on the House Special Committee investigating riots on January 6. Liz Cheney had to try to beat the Trump hold over the Republican party to keep her Wyoming seat. Liz Cheney soured Republican voters when she took on Donald Trump. Now that she faced off against the nominee that Trump endorsed and took an butt beating (I had to say that), we can begin to rebuild the Republican party.
With a Trump-supporting establishment still firmly in control of the GOP, the criticism has cost Cheney a significant amount of her support in the heavily Republican state and has ended her congressional career. Cheney had been forced to plead for crossover support from Democratic minorities and counted on the endorsements of establishment Republicans like her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has attacked pro-Trumps as the greatest threat to American democracy in history. Cheney and her defenders campaigned heavily on an anti-Democratic message, trying to tie her to her party’s minority faction, which is opposed to Trump and the former president. Cheney’s role as the deputy chairwoman of the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attacks made her the most prominent opponent of Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, often giving lengthy soliloquies about democracy and the threats that Trump poses to it.
In early 2021, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump over his role in instigating the Jan. 6 attacks on the United States Capitol and has since emerged as the Republican Party’s most outspoken anti-Trump voice, serving, most notably, as the deputy chair of the House Select Committee investigating the attacks. Rep. Liz Cheney was the last of the 10 GOP members in the House to vote in favor of impeaching Trump in 2021. According to recent polling data in heavily red Wyoming, Cheney trailed her Donald Trump-backed opponent by double digits. Four of the 10 GOP House GOP opponents of Trump The Houses 10 Republican opponents decided not to run for reelection in GOP primaries that they were likely to lose; three were defeated by Trump-backed challengers; Cheney fought to hang on to the seat once held by her father, former vice president Dick Cheney. As a political operative, and most recently, as the Houses senior Republican, Cheney has established herself as a neoconservative warmonger, with crass attacks on immigrants, Muslims, and progressives as toxic and just as much Trump-like as her most extreme members in the caucus. Incumbent Liz Cheney enraged some when she mounted a brief primary challenge in 2014 against then-incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi, which focused heavily on her family’s heritage and was attacked as a carpetbagger when she ran for Congress in 2016.
In an August 2016 interview with conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney called on Republicans to unite behind (Trump) in order to defeat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin, the state’s elected governor, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, have faced deep skepticism from constituents who believe that the national spotlight has become more important to them than listening to and attending to the people who elected them. Prominent Republicans like former President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, trying to convert existing Republican voters against Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney which they succeeded in doing.
If a significant Democratic-to-Republican switch happens at a GOP primary vote site in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, currently serving, could gain an additional 30 votes, writes Jonathan Schechter. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney seems guaranteed to lose her seat because of intense Republican opposition to her role as the committee’s co-chairwoman investigating a Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021. She is also facing criticism for her vote in favor of impeaching former President Donald J. Trump for his role in inciting that uprising.
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