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This is what happens to bitchy fat broads who stab honest men in the back.
Jackson, Wyoming (CNN)Rep. Liz Cheney's supporters say her
reelection hopes were doomed on January 13, 2021, when a week
after the insurrection at the Capitol, she and nine other House
Republicans voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.
Everything since that day -- Cheney's role on the House select
committee investigating the insurrection; her ads featuring her
father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, eviscerating Trump;
her speeches attempting to steer the GOP away from Trump's
influence -- only served Harriet Hageman's victory in Wyoming's
primary for its lone House seat on Tuesday.
Cheney's ouster caps a summer in which Trump has purged the GOP
of many of his critics, while elevating candidates -- including
Hageman -- who have parroted his lies about widespread election
fraud. Trump-aligned candidates have won primaries for governor
in swing states such as Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania, and Senate in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Candidates backed by the former President have positioned
themselves to take over the election machinery in a series of
key states if they win in November.
Primaries in recent months have also brought into focus the role
a handful of prominent Republicans, including Cheney and former
Vice President Mike Pence, are seeking to play in moving the GOP
beyond Trump and his election denialism.
But Wyoming's results on Tuesday demonstrated the long odds
those Trump critics face in a party in which the former
President remains the most dominant figure and is teasing a
third run for the White House in 2024.
President Joe Biden called Cheney following her primary loss,
according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to
divulge the contents of the conversation. Bloomberg was first to
report the call.
Cheney attempted to assemble a coalition of Democrats,
independents and moderate and anti-Trump Republicans -- many of
them ideological opponents of the neoconservative congresswoman
before the last 19 months -- to save her seat. Her campaign sent
information to registered Democrats in Wyoming about how to
change their party registration, and in interviews across the
state in the lead-up to the election, a number of Democrats did
say they were voting for Cheney.
But the Cowboy State's electorate is almost entirely Republican.
Wyoming has more than 215,000 registered Republicans compared to
just 36,000 registered Democrats, according to data from the
secretary of state's office. That's a drop of about 15,000
registered Democrats from early 2021, but the pool of party-
switchers, along with a fall-off of more than 3,000 independent
voters who likely became Republicans, was nowhere near large
enough to save Cheney from defeat in a Republican Party that had
turned against her.
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