Cheney, 56, is a black sheep for the billionaire after she joined the House of Representatives’ special investigative committee investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the federal Capitol.
The deputy Liz Cheney, the loudest voice among Republicans opposing former President Donald Trump suffered a heavy defeat Tuesday in the Wyoming state House caucus Harriet Hagemanwhich Mr. Trump supported.
Cheney, 56, is a black sheep for the billionaire after she joined the House of Representatives’ special investigative committee investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the federal Capitol.
With 18% of the ballots expected to be cast counted, Hageman was leading with 65.1% versus 30.3% Cheney, according to Edison Research.
After the daughter of the former vice president Dick Cheney became co-chairman of a special House investigative committee, in retaliation the 45th US president multiplied his attacks on his “faithless and warmongering” foe, throwing his weight behind her opponent Harriet Hageman, a 59-year-old ranch-raised lawyer , alongside whom he campaigned in late May.
Cheney described her defeat as the start of a new chapter in her political career as she addressed a small group of supporters, including her father.
“Our work is far from over,” he said Tuesday night. Hinting that she will run for president in her party, she added: “I’ve said since January 6th that I’m going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Donald Trump is never in the Oval Office again — and I mean it.”
In the state where Mr. Trump won more than 70% of the vote in 2020, Harriet Hageman is remarkably supportive of Trump’s theory that the 2020 election result was the result of a “stolen,” that the Republican former president won, even though there is no proof.
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