Rep. Liz Cheney, the most renowned anti-Trumper in the Republican Party, went down in flaming defeat in Wyoming’s GOP primary Tuesday.
CNN projected that her main opponent, lawyer Harriet Hageman, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, took 63 percent of the Republican vote Tuesday. She nearly doubled Cheney’s 33 percent.
Hageman seems a lock to be Wyoming’s member of Congress, given that Republicans hold a 5-1 advantage in voter registration in the state.
Trump was ecstatic over the news, and thanked Wyoming voters for the outcome.
“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” Trump posted on Truth Social, his own social media platform. “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.”
“Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,” Trump continued. “Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!”
Cheney was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
She also was the only one whose immediate future was unknown headed into Tuesday.
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Yet by Tuesday night, she became the eighth of those Republicans to be sent packing from Capitol Hill – either by choosing not to seek re-election or by being turned out by GOP voters.
The two survivors are Reps. David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington state.
The attitude toward Trump could not have been more different between the now-defeated incumbent and her presumed successor.
“Obviously we’re all very grateful to President Trump, who recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional representative and we have to make it count,” Hageman said, according to the Associated Press.
Cheney, meanwhile, the AP reported, told her followers that she will “do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it.”
Bizarrely, the liberal media such as CNN, The New York Times, and others continued to float the idea that Cheney, who is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is presidential material as a Republican, and would run in 2024 – despite the fact that GOP lawmakers booted her from the No. 3 post in their party last year, that Cheney was handpicked by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the Jan. 6 special committee, and that voters in her own party in her own state handed her a resounding drubbing on Tuesday.
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