Liz Cheney Primary?

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CASPER, Wyo.—Aug. 16, 2022, has been circled in bright red on former president Donald Trump’s calendar for nearly two years now.

It’s the day he’s been waiting for—the day when Wyoming Republicans tell Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) what he told her during a May Casper rally: “Liz, you’re fired.”

Despite a massive fundraising advantage in the most expensive congressional campaign in Wyoming history, family name recognition, and a conservative voting record that aligned with Trump’s policies 93 percent of the time, Cheney is projected to lose her bid for a fourth term as the state’s lone congressional representative in the Aug. 16 GOP primary with Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.

Cheney has incurred the wrath of her constituents—70 percent of whom voted for Trump in 2020—for being among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him, serving as co-chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, and being among his most severe, unrelenting antagonists.

In February 2021, the Wyoming Republican Party voted to censure her, and in May 2021, she was a deposed as Republican Conference chair by her House GOP colleagues.

Hageman is currently a senior counsel for Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance, focusing on litigation related to environmental regulations.

In August 2021, Hageman met with Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort.

The next month, Hageman announced she was running for congress against Cheney with Trump’s hearty backing.

“I strongly endorse Republican House of Representatives Candidate Harriet Hageman from Wyoming who is running against warmonger and disloyal Republican, Liz Cheney,” Trump said in a Sept. 9, 2021, statement.

To which Cheney responded on Twitter: “Here’s a sound bite for you: Bring it.”

And Trump did, coming to Casper for a Memorial Day weekend rally on Hageman’s behalf.

Hageman has emphasized her Wyoming roots, her background in natural resources, water rights, and public lands policy, and Trump’s endorsement in a near-year campaign that has seen her travel 40,000 miles in visiting all 23 of the state’s counties repeatedly. “Wyoming has one [congressional] representative and we need to make it count”.

Hageman has pledged to visit all 23 counties at least once a year if elected and to be “a representative who will champion Wyoming ideals.”

Among her policy initiatives is a proposed “pilot program” to allot up to 1.5 million of the 30-million acres now under federal control in Wyoming “to the state so we could do a better job of managing” without the weighty regulations imposed by a matrix of agencies in Washington.

In the past two weeks before the Aug. 16 vote, Cheney campaigned in small, private gatherings.

Although her campaign collected more than $15 million in contributions, three times more than Hageman, Cheney’s high-profile participation in Jan. 6 proceedings during the summer, irked many in Wyoming and was exploited by Hageman in meets-and-greets with voters.

According to a University of Wyoming July 25-Aug. 6 poll of 562 likely primary voters released Aug. 11, Hageman leads Cheney by nearly 30 percentage points—57 percent to 28 percent.

While being excoriated by a vocal—and apparent overwhelming majority—of Wyoming Republicans, Cheney has gained a degree of bipartisan popularity for her unabashed criticism of Trump outside of Wyoming.

Cheney’s campaign appears more orientated to down-the-road national ambitions than to winning reelection to Wyoming’s House seat.

“Millions of Americans across our nation—Republicans, Democrats, Independents—stand united in the cause of freedom. We are stronger, more dedicated, and more determined than those trying to destroy our Republic,” she said.

Among Cheney’s last campaign TV ads was the Aug. 4 release of her father, former vice president Dick Cheney and a former five-term Wyoming congressional representative, calling Trump “a coward” for “trying to steal” the 2020 election. It didn’t sit well with Wyoming.

Wyoming is one of six states where primaries are “partially open,” meaning that voters in one party can vote in another party’s primary if they register with the party before casting a ballot.

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