Liz Cheney

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney shared a photo of 'Yellowstone' actor Kevin Costner supporting her reelection.

Costner, who stars in the Paramount show "Yellowstone," considers himself independent. Her opposition to the former president has cost her support within her party, including in her home state of Wyoming. Cheney, who has been in the spotlight for her position on the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, and her criticism of former President Donald Trump, tweeted on Monday a photo of Costner in a T-shirt that read "I'M FOR LIZ CHENEY."

Yellowstone star Kevin Costner has weighed in on the upcoming mid-terms, endorsing Rep. Liz Cheney (R - Wyo.) in her re-election campaign.

It's all part of this list of 10 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Yellowstone. These 10 facts about the Paramount Network show are sure to stump even the most dedicated viewers. They're almost all about the cast members and their real-life passions and roles. Yellowstone Season 5 began shooting in Montana in mid-May, and it is scheduled to premiere on Nov. 13. Seasons 1-4 of the hit Paramount Network show are currently available to stream via Peacock. As part of Taste of Country's comprehensive coverage of all things Yellowstone, check out our Dutton Rules podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Costner has publicly endorsed candidates before, but does not make a habit of it.

Donald Trump could change the meaning of "conservative" because ideological labels are group identities as much as reasoned political beliefs.

In the survey data reported so far, we asked respondents first about their own view and second about their group’s ideological norms. You can see the share of respondents whose own positions differ from their group’s norm on each issue, broken down by whether they didn’t know the consensus position or knowingly took a different position. To discourage respondents from projecting their own beliefs onto their group’s norms, they offered $2 to respondents who accurately guessed their group’s most common answer on a randomly chosen question. In recent research, soon to be published, the other three of this post’s authors — Eric Groenendyk, Erik Kimbrough and Mark Pickup — surveyed a sample of Americans from the 2018 YouGov panel, which is opt-in, but with targeted sampling used to build a panel that matches the census on gender, age, education, ideology, region and voter registration. The association between ideology and what political scientists call “sophistication” has been reinforced by decades of political science research. Based on her voting record, Cheney is approximately as conservative as Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy. And yet many other Republicans now call her a “RINO” (Republican in name 0nly) for supporting Donald Trump’s impeachment and helping to lead the Jan. 6 investigation.

Liz Cheney won her House seat big in 2020. But splitting with Trump over election legitimacy and chairing the Jan. 6 hearings has her trailing a pro-Trump ...

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