Posted on 08/06/2022 6:30:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
A handful of Republican operatives are quietly mounting a last-ditch effort to rescue Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from a Trump-backed primary challenge, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The previously unreported effort shows how some Republicans are trying to surreptitiously undercut the former president's revenge campaign, which has so far claimed the political lives of a significant chunk of GOP critics.
Cheney — the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee — could be the next casualty. She's facing tough odds in her primary fight this month against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
Driving the news: Involved in the effort are Jeff Larson, the chairman of Republican research firm America Rising and a longtime Cheney backer, and Julia Griswold Dailer, a former Trump White House and inauguration committee aide.
Their strategy is two-pronged: Persuade Democrats to cross the aisle and back the Wyoming Republican in this month's open primary, and dent her Trump-endorsed challenger by portraying her as insufficiently loyal to the former president.
What's happening: Two seemingly unrelated political groups recently popped up to try to beat back Hageman's challenge.
Wyomingites Defending Freedom and Democracy is running digital and television ads and encouraging Democrats in the state to cross party lines and vote for Cheney in the Aug. 16 primary.
Conservatives for a Strong America is portraying Hageman as a fake conservative secretly in league with Cheney and critical of Trump.
The latter group is also trying to boost two of Cheney's other primary challengers in an apparent effort to split the anti-Cheney vote.
The intrigue: Tex McBride, a Wyoming rancher who leads WDFD, told Axios that Larson recruited him for that role.
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Just another gang of traitorous grifters. Of course they love Liz and Dad.
Another theory: the demonrats will cross over and vote her into the election, assuming the Republicans hate her so much that they’ll just stay home and not vote.
Yeah, that'll work--right after they trotted out Dick Cheney, the Democrats' bête noire.
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Just like they destroyed the Tea Party, they believe they must stop Trump at all costs.
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All of the old, pasty-faced RINOs come to Lez’ defense.
Figures.
And, IMO, Kasich was head of that pack. Lying leftist RINO scumbag...
GOPe=Democrats
Good one!
God I hate these people.
“We know who have abused us, but the time is coming when they shall lick the dust, and melt away.” Sam Adam
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Trump’s persona flushes out the vile, evil snakes. It must be his righteous presence that makes them snarl and spit fire like the devils they are.
US politics is being hijacked by Alzheimer victims!
They’re rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Lizard Cheney is going down in flames in a couple weeks. This is going to be a blowout.
“The true nature of the republican party was when they turned their backs on Newt Gingrich’s “contract with America” immediately after it and he had gotten a majority in the House”
In 2010 the Tea Party gave them control the House again. Speaker Boehner immediately dissed the Tea Party. Boehner’s successor, Paul Ryan, also wanted nothing to do with it. Neither did Mitch McConnell enlist the Tea Party to bolster the GOP in the Senate. In 2012 Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate for President, made it clear he wanted no support from the Tea Party.
In 2016 the people gave the Republican Party a majority in both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Trump would have signed almost any piece of legislation the Congress put in front of him. Yet GOP leaders House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell determined governing for their voters was secondary to conspiring with the federal bureaucracy, Democrats, and national mainstream media to bring Trump down. The do nothing Republican Congress was rewarded with loss of the House in 2018.
The Republican establishment serves big donors and the federal bureaucracy, not the voters. They call themselves “conservatives” but really have no ideology.
Cheney loses by 25 in the primary.
This fad of voting in the opposite party’s primary should stop. There won’t be any actual voting anymore if everyone is in this silly game.
Just as colors are not just colors anymore, since they have been loaded with political messages
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If Dick Cheney was the solution, then the people who made the decision to use that A-hole don’t even understand the problem.
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