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...
