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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I think Ms. Hageman herself also deserves some credit for running a successful campaign.
Watching her now attacking ALL republicans.
Not a word against Biden or a single Democrat.
I wonder why she doesn't just change parties. Almost as if there is something that is more important to her than staying in office. Very strange.
How soon until a flood of fake mail in vooots pop up all for Lon Cheney?
I wouldn't count on it. The Rats eliminated Kinzinger's district. Their stooges don't seem to be getting much out of the deal.
>>Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss can’t be wrong
Nice Blues Traveler reference!
Spin Doctors, I thought?
She's had three terms. How can she be the highest-ranking 'Republican?'
>>Spin Doctors, I thought?
Yeah, I think you are right. Thanks.
Somebody better do a ‘Life Check’ on poor Mitch McConnell this morning. I’m sure he is deeply saddened.
A+
I’ll say this that it is tough to gerrymander a one representative state. :)
His critics? She tried to put him in jail!
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