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Liz Cheney's loss in Wyoming is Trump's biggest primary victory as he tries to purge the Republican Party of his critics
Business Insider ^ | 08/16/2022 | Oma Seddiq

Posted on 08/16/2022 7:06:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former President Donald Trump strengthened his grip over the Republican Party on Tuesday evening with Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary loss in Wyoming.

Harriet Hageman, a Trump-endorsed lawyer, defeated Cheney, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ and Insider.

Cheney, who’s held Wyoming’s sole congressional seat for five years, had been Trump’s main target in his revenge plot to purge the Republican Party of members he deems disloyal to him. She was the highest-ranking Republican to vote to impeach him over the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and she’s been one of his loudest critics since. As vice chair on the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, Cheney has pushed back on Trump’s 2020 election lies and sought to cast him as a threat to the country.

Her defeat in Wyoming delivers Trump his biggest primary victory this year. …

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: 2022; adamkinzinger; buhbye; cheney; donaldtrump; dontletthedoorhityou; gop; hageman; harriethageman; illinois; lezzylizloses; lizardcheney; lizcheney; nottiredofwinning; ohio; patlauber; paulkasich; tds; trump; wellbye; wyoming
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To: oblomov

Sometimes purging is necessary.


81 posted on 08/16/2022 7:28:44 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Olog-hai

She’s now supporting the FBI raid and accusing Republicans of violence against the FBI.


82 posted on 08/16/2022 7:28:47 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Olog-hai

Many of us have waited for this day to Come.
The Wicked Hag Witch Is Politically Dead.


83 posted on 08/16/2022 7:28:54 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Olog-hai
Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead--Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (1939)
84 posted on 08/16/2022 7:30:24 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I really hope the tide is turning. Sort of like how in Texas when Mayra Flores was selected as the first Mexican Republican in a Democrat stronghold. I know Hispanics are tired of the Biden and liberal BS, especially the stupid “Latinx” word that the woke people use to give themselves a tingly feeling.


85 posted on 08/16/2022 7:30:34 PM PDT by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump didn’t take her out, she did that herself.

The woman’s a damn Traitor.

She cooperated full on with the mafia criminal posing as the Speaker of the House instead of sticking with her party and the minority leader who had proposed other party members to bring balance to the show trial Inquisition.

You’d think a nominal Protestant would know better.

But she went further. She voted for the impeachment of her party’s President on flimsy, partisan grounds in one of the most grotesque displays of turncoatism in American history. This was the #3 Republican in the House? Seriously?

Trump’s endorsement of her opponent was incidental and expected. But ANY ordinary person would have judged her harshly.


86 posted on 08/16/2022 7:31:25 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Trump20162020

Wyoming voters took an axe
and gave Lizzie forty whacks.
When Alaskans saw what they had done,
they gave Murkowski forty-one.

I love that........lol


87 posted on 08/16/2022 7:32:11 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: tennmountainman
The Wicked Hag Witch Is Politically Dead.

Yes, this is the last office she'll hold. One interesting thing about politicians is how they become deluded from reality by power.

Somehow, an otherwise intelligent man such as Pence has come to believe he has a shot at the presidency. I don't know of any multiverse in which that happens.
88 posted on 08/16/2022 7:32:27 PM PDT by Observator
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To: Olog-hai

Good news! Cheney’s 30% or so she’s expected to win is curiously similar to the 2020 Biden result, isn’t it?


89 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:02 PM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: rovenstinez

“Liz had ALL the advantage of the backing of the Legacy News..she had ALL the money..and her DAD the RINO group fully behind her, as an INCUMBENT..she should have won hands down. I HOPE politicians are watching.”

Totally agree, but what’s scary is that with all of the above, plus an otherwise excellent voting record (until recently), she would have made a FORMIDABLE candidate for the top job. All she had to do was fake liking (or at least tolerating) Trump.

Now she’ll spend her old age with Peter Stroke on CNN.


90 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:03 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Need to update your list. However, IMHO, Ben Sasse is an ass and should be target #1 before he gets anymore ensconced.

Deal with the Turtle and Linda next. It gives them more time to fear what’s coming after Sasse.


91 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:14 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Observator
Pence/Cheney '24 NEVER....
92 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Maudeen

later


93 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:39 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: SlipperySlope99
Watching the left simp for the Cheney family is the number one example of why democrats have no integrity. They literally called Dick Cheney satan until he started opposing Trump.

The hate for Dick Cheney was a pantomime meant to fool people into thinking the GOP and the DNC are actually different instead of one Uniparty. Now we see the truth, Cheney is one of them and Trump isn't.

94 posted on 08/16/2022 7:33:54 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SlipperySlope99

“I won this primary 2 years ago with 73% and I could have done it again .... BUT Trump” was pretty much what she was saying - the usual nauseating fare. She’ll be insufferable until January when her term is over & probably much worse after, with a LIB media gig or running for national office.


95 posted on 08/16/2022 7:35:06 PM PDT by Qiviut ( “Hell is empty and all the Devils are Here.” [Shakespeare, The Tempest] )
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To: Dominic01

We have got to get Merkowski PLEASE Alaska MAGA patriots come out in DROVES and help us get rid of this BITCH!! Kelly will be so much better for Alaska!!


96 posted on 08/16/2022 7:35:08 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Olog-hai
"My guiding principle is don’t do things that are stupid"

Liz Cheney, on herself, which is her only love.

97 posted on 08/16/2022 7:36:40 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: Olog-hai

“...target in his revenge plot to purge the Republican Party of members he deems disloyal to him.”

And this is why the liberals are called liars. Trump isn’t interested in purging disloyal republicans for himself. He’s doing it for the people that expect conservative values and lawfulness of which Liz Chaney has not even come close to accomplishing.

Another one bites the dust.

wy69


98 posted on 08/16/2022 7:36:47 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: thinden

There’s 15% Dems in the state? If every dim cheated and crossed over, not many did, they’re too lazy, so, who are the 20% or so who voted for this POS?


99 posted on 08/16/2022 7:36:55 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Olog-hai

How soon until a flood of fake mail in vooots pop up all for Lon Cheney?


100 posted on 08/16/2022 7:37:36 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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