Congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump’s rare voices among Republicans, lost the Republican primary in Wyoming on Tuesday. and is likely to be re-elected in the November election. Cheney lost to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hackman in Wyoming, which polls had already predicted.
In Wyoming, a state Small population and strong conservative tendencyTrump won the 2020 presidential election with the support of seven out of ten citizens and a 43 percentage point lead over Democrat Joe Biden.
George W. The congresswoman, the daughter of Bush’s former vice president Dick Cheney, is the latest Republican woman to lash out after most conservative congressmen voted in favor of a political impeachment against Trump after his attacks on him. On January 6, 2021, either lost their primaries or announced their retirement from politics.
Tuesday’s results show that the former president, who could run for president in 2024, continues to have strong support among the Republican base, having already been nominated in primaries in several states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Arizona. and Michigan.
The results further confirm that the Republican Party is shifting rapidly to the right. A party once dominated by national security and business-oriented conservatives like Dick Cheney now owns Trump, buoyed by his populist appeal and, above all, by his denial of defeat in the 2020 election.
Harriet Hackman, a lawyer associated with the livestock industry, lied to smear Trump supporters. The 2020 election was “rigged”..
Such falsehoods, firmly rejected by federal and state election officials along with Trump’s own attorney general and judges appointed by him, have taken Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president to a more rational voice within the party. Republicans, beware The former head of state is a threat to democracy.
Cheney’s defeat would have been unthinkable two years ago. However, the congresswoman, in her third term and her allies, already started the day discouraged, knowing that Trump’s support for Harriet Hackman would give her a significant advantage. In a state that won by a large margin During the 2020 campaign.
“Our work still has a long way to go”
Liz Cheney is already eyeing a political future beyond Congress, including a 2024 presidential run, a political ambition that could put her on a new collision course with Donald Trump.
Cheney described Tuesday’s defeat as the start of a new chapter in his political career as he addressed a small crowd of supporters, including his father. “Our work is far from over,” said the congresswoman, who was censured within the Republican Party and the target of death threats after joining a congressional panel investigating Trump’s role in the Capitol Hill attack.
Donald Trump, who used his social networking site Truth Social to celebrate the election results, did not overlook Cheney’s defeat. “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she behaved and her vile and hypocritical words and actions toward others,” Trump wrote. “Now he’ll finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion, where I’m sure he’ll be much happier than he is now. Thanks, Wyoming!”.
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