Posted on 06/30/2022 6:19:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
Liz Cheney is returning to Wyoming after a busy week of hearing public testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee to debate Republican primary challengers including Harriet Hageman, her Donald Trump-endorsed opponent.
Cheney will likely draw criticism in Thursday’s televised debate for investigating the former president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election and his encouragement of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
While Cheney has taken a key role as one of just two Republicans on the House committee, she’s faced a backlash among Republicans in deep-red Wyoming.
The state Republican Party last year censured her and voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican. Even so, Cheney has if anything increased her national profile, out-raising Hageman by a well over 2-to-1 margin over the first three months of 2022.
Thursday’s debate hosted by Wyoming PBS in Sheridan will be closed to the public for security reasons and to prevent people from disrupting the event, the station’s General Manager Terry Dugas said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
More anti Trump AP propaganda?
Yep
And why would any Republican outside of Cheney agree to do a “debate” on PBS?
Silly idea.
I see no reason for the GOP participating in this. It is clearly planned to benefit her and she has been censured
“Thursday’s debate hosted by Wyoming PBS in Sheridan will be closed to the public for security reasons and to prevent people from disrupting the event, the station’s General Manager Terry Dugas said in a statement”
Typical cowardly move....liberals can’t stand a level playing field.....the j6 abomination is a perfect example of that.
How is excluding the public not a level playing field?
3xactly- she shouldn’t even be given a platform. Especially one moderated by PBS. It will be nothing but a moderator and her p.aying gotcha with the gop,the whole night. Bet she won’t debate a yone unless the crowd is screened heavily and determined to be her supporters. Would be nice though if she got boo’ed off the stage
I’d love to know the PBS “structure” for the debate before I would commit.
Because PBS is hosting the thing. Check out the moderator list. It is anything but level. Tilted hard toward Cheney.
I would bag the debate. Give her a blank stage. Backstabbing moron. I loathe that skank.
Is Peter Stroke the moderator?
She’s only there, because of her dad.
They don’t want people there that aren’t cheney supporters....the article says itself that it’s a “deeply red state”. Chances are the public would be overwhelmingly anti cheney conservatives. That’s my opinion anyway.
They ALWAYS have to have complete control don’t they.
I hope this debate is being live streamed somewhere so everyone can watch it.
She has shown herself to be a truly awful human being. A partisan political beast of the worst variety.
A friend (cinematography major) used to work for PBS... he said they are SO FAR in the black that it’s a joke.
I always remember that when they start their ‘begging for dollars’ BS!
Vote for the democrat in November if you have to. We’ll have the house.
Why would anyone agree to a debate with someone, like Cheney, who is so unpopular she had nothing to lose?
I wish nothing but the worst to the traitorous bitch, Lizard Cheney.
“I’d love to know the PBS “structure” for the debate before I would commit.”
Agreed.
““Thursday’s debate hosted by Wyoming PBS in Sheridan will be closed to the public”
But it will be televised, presumably live and without editing.
I can’t object to that. We learn something about the participants.
If Cheney gains by the debate, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Public debating and voting — parts of our foundation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.