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Liz Cheney’s Re-Election Bid Pits Trump Against Bush
WSJ ^ | Sep 22 | By Michael C. Bender and Kristina Peterson

Posted on 09/22/2021 10:57:55 AM PDT by RandFan

WASHINGTON—The race for Wyoming’s single U.S. House district has pitted two of the biggest names in Republican politics against one another: both of the party’s living former presidents.

Former President George W. Bush’s first campaign event of the 2022 midterms will be a fundraiser to support Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who is among former President Donald Trump’s top targets to unseat. The fundraiser will be held next month in Dallas, according to a copy of an invitation viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Cheney is a daughter of Mr. Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, and is one of the most outspoken critics of Mr. Trump, whom she has blamed for instigating the riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when his supporters attempted to block certification of the 2020 election results.

Her criticism of Mr. Trump and his false claims that his critics stole the election from him led her Republican House colleagues to oust her from party leadership in May.

Mr. Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman, one of Ms. Cheney’s Republican challengers, earlier this month. Mr. Trump has called Ms. Cheney a “warmongering fool” and a “horrible human being.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: cheneypence2024; dubya; fatliz; georgebush; georgewbush; harriethageman; jorgearbusto; lez; lezcheney; lizcheney; stayoutdabushes; thelizard; thesmirkingchimp; wyoming
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To: RandFan

Bush, the “domestic enemy” hater, loves Cheney. I’m so shocked. The Wyoming GOP wants nothing to do with her, so naturally W is for her.


21 posted on 09/22/2021 11:21:38 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Pollard

That is the best strategy, take over the party from the ground up.


22 posted on 09/22/2021 11:22:02 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RandFan

Don’t live in her state but it isn’t just Trump against her.


23 posted on 09/22/2021 11:22:04 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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"As for me, I'll take a Bush"


24 posted on 09/22/2021 11:24:00 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: DoodleDawg
I always caution folks here on FR to remember that Trump won the 2016 GOP nomination mainly due to his strength in states that he lost in the general election -- like the West Coast, New York, New Jersey, most of New England, etc.

Cruz actually won many of the western states that have been GOP strongholds for years -- including Wyoming.

25 posted on 09/22/2021 11:24:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Do that at the same time Trump is working from the top down.

If nothing else, we could get the red states straightened out. They may need to join together and fight fedgov or secede. Can’t do that with a bunch of State RINOs.


26 posted on 09/22/2021 11:26:57 AM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: All

Bush? Haha she must be desperate


27 posted on 09/22/2021 11:27:40 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: RandFan

EVERY Republican Congressional member who voted to certify a potato, along with unlimited voter fraud needs to be removed from office. I will never forgive or forget.


28 posted on 09/22/2021 11:30:02 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: RandFan

Sure as heck not Liz!! Bush to her rescue. Probably a lot more money for her vs her opponent but money isn’t everything.

I hope she loses BIGLY!!


29 posted on 09/22/2021 11:30:22 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: EEGator

Da Bushes were both trash. The old man used to go to Ft. Bragg, NC and some SF NCO would help him tandem jump. If one cannot jump and/or free fall don’t ask for help.


30 posted on 09/22/2021 11:33:35 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: EEGator

Da Bushes were both trash. The old man used to go to Ft. Bragg, NC and some SF NCO would help him tandem jump. If one cannot jump and/or free fall don’t ask for help.


31 posted on 09/22/2021 11:33:41 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: Pollard

Agree. Romney’s niece is not helping the RNC raise funds. She must go.


32 posted on 09/22/2021 11:36:33 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: RandFan

Yo, WSJ, this Bush is dead to most of the people who voted for the GOP. We are done with nod wink Republicans.


33 posted on 09/22/2021 11:43:41 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: mass55th

“EVERY Republican Congressional member who voted to certify a potato, along with unlimited voter fraud needs to be removed from office. I will never forgive or forget.”

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I daresay that most of us here agree wholeheartedly with you. I certainly do.


34 posted on 09/22/2021 11:46:46 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: All

Some of this is delusion. The old GOP, aka GOPe, think that they can appeal to what they view as elevated themes and swagger forth with their discredited definition of CONSERVATIVE.

Make no mistake here. CONSERVATIVE means 5 things:

1) Build the Wall
2) Drain the Swamp
3) America First in ALL Things
4) Pro Guns
5) Pro Life

The Bush perspective is NO! It is Lower Taxes, Spend not very much less but more on the Military, Comprehensive Immigration Reform (aka amnesty), and maybe some watered down pro Gun and especially watered down Pro Life.

THEY ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES. They utterly desperately want that to be conservatism so they can use the buzz word conservative, but they are the swamp. They can never embrace Drain The Swamp as conservatism.

THIS is the elevated theme. Pound them with it. They are the Swamp. They are the Swamp.


35 posted on 09/22/2021 11:58:00 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen

His little spectacle speech at the 9-11 memorials was the setup for this. He doesn’t care if he gets even 25% of republicans to push for Xhaney. He wants democrats to switch over and line the GOP coffers since the party is in chambers. He really believes that “they” are the “light” and calm of the party. Also, he feels entitled to its ownership.


36 posted on 09/22/2021 12:29:11 PM PDT by Billie Bud
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To: RandFan

Just waiting for G. Whore Bush to whore himself out for Beto “el Puta Politico” O’rourke soon.


37 posted on 09/22/2021 1:27:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: RandFan

Trump got 15 million more votes than Bush.


38 posted on 09/22/2021 2:35:21 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: RandFan; All


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39 posted on 09/22/2021 5:19:01 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: musicman

Done.. 20 from me

Thanks for the reminder musicman


40 posted on 09/22/2021 6:04:36 PM PDT by RandFan
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