Liz Cheney

Two names with Republican Party history will be on ballots Tuesday. Wyoming voters appear ready to boot Liz Cheney, while Sarah Palin looks for an Alaska ...

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Liz Cheney has been a conservative GOP congressional policymaker since 2016. But when she turned against Donald Trump, GOP voters in Wyoming turned against ...

Hageman embraces standard GOP positions about protecting borders, opposing abortion, lowering taxes, upholding the Constitution and “putting America first” – as does Cheney. Although it lies at the heart of the theory of representative democracy, this assumption puts things backwards. In the U.S. democratic system, members of Congress pledge to faithfully perform the role set for them in the Constitution. That role is to represent the interests of their state constituents in federal policymaking. Polarization makes cross-partisan relations toxic, but it also poisons relations among allies. The divide, rather, is a matter of loyalty to a partisan identity that has Trump at its center, and the corresponding need to punish those who refuse to comply with his wishes. Moreover, partisan identity is firmly tied to where one shops, the food one eats, the car one drives, the television shows one watches, where one vacations and even the brand of coffee one prefers.

Harriet Hageman tried to keep Trump off the GOP ballot in 2016. Now, with the former president's backing, she looks poised to defeat her old friend Liz ...

Her expected fall underscores the fall of the Republican party, from one organized around a set of policy goals to one organized around one man. “It is,” Cheney said in her final campaign ad, “a cancer that threatens our republic.” The incumbent, political royalty in the state and about as conservative a Republican as there is, has found herself exiled from her party and trailing Hageman by 30 points in the polls ahead of the Tuesday vote — all because of her stand against the former president, first in last year’s impeachment for inciting insurrection and then for helping to lead the congressional investigation into that deadly riot. It’s played out on the individual level, in officials like Lindsey Graham, who once cautioned that Republicans would be “destroyed” and “deserve it” if they backed Trump, only to become one of his most subservient allies on Capitol Hill. And it’s played out on an institutional level, with the establishment building the Trumpism it once claimed to abhor into the party infrastructure, bracketing the GOP platform with the Big Lie and fully embracing his brand of culture war grievance. Flash forward six years: Hageman now appears to be on the cusp of defeating Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, who she advised in 2014 and campaigned for in 2016, as a full-on MAGA candidate with the endorsement of Trump, the man she now claims is the “greatest president” of her lifetime. In the summer of 2016, when Donald Trump had vanquished his GOP rivals but had yet to be formally named the party’s presidential nominee, a group of his opponents launched a Hail Mary effort to keep him off the ballot.

Seven of the Republican House members who voted to impeach former President Trump have already retired or lost their primary races.

It's going to be a long, hard slog. Liz is as conservative a Republican as you will find. He ran against Cheney for the Republican nomination for Congress in 2016. Because I think Trump has been picked on. I don't agree with it. So I did vote for Harriet. I think it's just a witch-hunt, just like Trump says. The Democrats crossing party lines to support Cheney are outnumbered 4-to-1. Despite disagreeing with most of Cheney's conservative policies, they say her work on the January 6 Committee is too important. In Wyoming, voters can change their party affiliation all the way up to the primary Election Day. There are 6,000 fewer registered Democrats now than there were at the beginning of the year. Martinez has closely watched the January 6 hearings. Seven of the Republican House members who voted to impeach former President Trump have already retired or lost their primary races.

Cheney is looking far beyond Tuesday's Republican primary for this state's at-large seat in the U.S. House, a race that she is likely to lose, barring an ...

Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. Here’s a complete calendar of all the primaries in 2022. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. This story also has been corrected to clarify the circumstances in which anti-Trump donors would provide funding for a Cheney presidential bid. Which primaries are the most competitive? But Cheney is clear-eyed when it comes to her chances of actually winning the presidential nomination in a party that is still so loyal to former president Donald Trump, according to friends and advisers. This world is insane,” Diana Welch, an adviser to Christy Walton, a billionaire heir to the Walmart fortune, recalled thinking. His more traditional truck now has a “Cheney for Wyoming” sticker on it. I think it’s got to be somebody that’s willing to take the boos, take the yells,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), the only other Republican on the Jan. 6 committee, said in a recent interview. And she could exit the U.S. Capitol, likely in 4½ months, as the face of an anti-Trump movement that has cost her old alliances but left her with new supporters, clamoring for a next act more nationally focused. This anti-Trump group fears a repeat of the 2016 campaign, in which rivals refrained from attacking Trump’s unorthodox behavior and positions until it was too late. In that regard, Cheney will spend the months after the committee concludes its work later this year figuring out her next steps.

Cheney, who has spoken out clearly against former President Donald Trump, is down by 20 points in primary polls — and her approval ratings are in the tank ...

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Rep. Liz Cheney may be about to lose her day job. If so, she's totally OK with that. Cheney, a third-term Wyoming Republican, is charging into Tuesday's ...

It said the two were “participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” In that light, Cheney, Kinzinger and the other Trump critics are seen as apostates to the larger cause of winning power. “The Reagan party that appealed to so many of the now middle-aged or even aging Republican conservatives in the 1980s and ’90s is gone. “My sense is that if it is [her plan], she’s going to have a long wait,” Galston said. “There’s no use in pretending somehow I scored some major victory and saved the party.” Still, 70 percent of Wyoming voters chose Trump in 2020 — the highest number of any state in the country. And she’s obviously prepared to take the consequences.” And heading into the final stretch of what appears to be a doomed campaign for a fourth term, Cheney is not dodging the anti-Trump sentiment that’s put her in hot water with Wyoming voters. In that campaign, she’s essentially arguing that the GOP needs saving from itself — and she’ll either be the one to do it, or fall hard trying. In a last-ditch effort to gain ground in Tuesday’s primary contest, Cheney last week aired a public endorsement from her father. “She hasn’t just been kind of a passive member of the committee,” Barker added. Indeed, Cheney, as vice chair of the select committee, has been the most prominently featured figure throughout the eight public hearings the panel has staged this summer.

Congressional candidates who have been openly critical of Trump have had huge trouble so far winning Republican primary races. Tom Rice of South Carolina, Jaime ...

Liz Cheney is widely expected to lose her Republican congressional primary Tuesday, but she has far outraised her opponent in Texas donations, per an Axios ...

She has played a leadership role, without partisanship, of getting the facts out there." she wrote about herself on the Trumpettes' website. What they're saying: "I had never contributed to Liz Cheney's congressional campaigns in the past. - In total, Cheney's campaign has received $950,000 in Texas contributions this election cycle — and Hageman has pulled in $150,000. - Of note: Grimes, on the board of the Austin-based, conservative-minded Texas Public Policy Foundation, is aTrumpette. "I try to make the world a better place through investments, policy initiatives, and if all else fails, I decorate it!" - "I consider that one of the most reprehensible attacks in my long adult life and long public service.

On Tuesday, Wyoming Republicans determine the fate of Representative Liz Cheney, the putative leader of the anti-Trump forces in the Republican party.

What if he has cynically exploited their bigotry, ignorance or distrust? Principles have nothing to do with it. He argued back that there was no use having an agenda without a second term. The role Cheney has played raises a larger question about the meaning of representative democracy. But where is the center? Politics is about getting and keeping power.

“Nobody would piss off the entire state of Wyoming without another plan,” said Kasey Mateosky, a Republican running for a county commissioner spot.

"I'll be voting for Hageman because I think she stands more for Wyoming values than Liz Cheney," said a primary voter who spoke in Afton but declined to give his name. "I was sorry to hear Wyoming has abandoned truth, honesty and integrity in favor of the big lie, treason, insurrection and a proto-fascist dictator," he wrote back to the message sender. A super PAC by that name, formed by Trump allies, has been the primary outside spender in the race, pumping more than $1 million into boosting Hageman and hurting Cheney. Four of the 10 opted to retire, three have already lost primaries, and two survived primaries (in one of those two, Trump didn't endorse a challenger). Voters like Grisell were part of Cheney's Hail Mary strategy to beat Trump's forces in Wyoming, which he won in 2020 by 43 percentage points, his largest margin in the country. On television, Cheney's ads are focused on her fight with Trump — the apostasy that alienated her from most GOP voters here and across the country.

Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump over the Capitol riot on Jan.

Mr. Kinzinger announced his retirement amid death threats from voters and hostility from Republican colleagues. Wash. Fourth District Ohio 16th District Almost exactly one year after his impeachment vote, Mr. Katko said he would forgo a re-election campaign. Ill. 16th District Mich. Third District Mich. Sixth District Wash. Third District N.Y. 24th District Only two have survived their primaries, and Ms. Cheney is the last whose fate is yet to be decided. S.C. Seventh District Wyo. At-Large District

In the Coal Creek Coffee Shop in Laramie, Wyoming, a few weeks ago, a woman recognized me and struck up a conversation about what has become the most ...

Tonight's big news will be the fate of Representative Liz Cheney, whose latter-day conversion from dedicated Republican partisan to Donald Trump's chief ...

( [Here’s a timeline of Trump’s false and misleading comments](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/technology/trump-raid-misinfo-timeline.html)about the search of his Florida residence.) Eastern time](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/wyoming-how-to-vote.html). [Reid Epstein trudged around Wyoming back in February](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/politics/liz-cheney-wyoming-republicans.html), when it was still unclear whether Cheney was planning to run again. A strong Democratic showing in a special election in New York’s Hudson Valley is [the latest example](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/politics/ny-special-election-abortion.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-2022-midterms&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). [follow the results here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/elections/results-wyoming.html). [Great Man theory of history](https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/anthropology/great-man-theory), and she wishes American schools would rededicate themselves to this approach. [“Liz Cheney and the Fate of the 10 Republicans Who Defied Trump,”](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/politics/liz-cheney-impeachment-10.html)Michael Bender and Malika Khurana assess the former president’s campaign of vengeance against the House Republicans who voted to impeach him over the Capitol riot. What are you hearing about what the Liz Cheney superfans in the disaffected corners of the G.O.P. And Liz herself appeared to be on track to be a future speaker until she broke with much of her party after the 2020 election. She inherited her policy views, love of history and belief in American exceptionalism from both parents (don’t forget, her mother, Lynne, is a historian). 6 committee (which, far more than the Wyoming primary, is her focus). That’s clearly the aim of her work on the Jan.

The immediate political future of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump's most powerful critics in the GOP, is at stake on Tuesday as the last of the House Republicans who voted for his impeachment to face primary voters.

Murkowski, Republican Kelly Tshibaka and Democrat Patricia Chesbro will advance to the November election, CNN projects, against a fourth candidate yet to be determined. When she was defeated in a 2010 Republican primary during the tea party wave, Murkowski launched a write-in campaign and defeated GOP nominee Joe Miller in the fall. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, was also facing new competition this year fueled by her lack of fealty to the former President. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, whose ascent marked a precursor to the party's Trump era, returned to the ballot on Tuesday. The two survivors to date, in California and Washington, benefited from their states' nonpartisan primary system. "America will never be the same." His enduring popularity there, coupled with Cheney's role as vice chair of the January 6 committee, made the three-term congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney a top target of Trump allies. "Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept, honorably, the outcome of elections. Overnight, the Cheney campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership PAC to be called "The Great Task." "No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. The name of the PAC is a historic nod to Lincoln who spoke at Gettysburg of the "great task" facing the country. "This primary election is over," Cheney said in her speech.

The race marked the last primary challenge to a small group of House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last year and are mostly set to leave Congress after ...

That history has made her a strange ally to Democrats who admire her anti-Trump mission and her work on the Jan. [mailing instructions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/23/liz-cheney-democrat-crossover/?itid=lk_inline_manual_57) on how to switch parties for the primary. Teton was the only county in Wyoming to support President Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Cheney is the fourth House Republican to lose a primary after voting to impeach Trump last year on charges that he incited a riot. A Washington Post analysis found that in battleground states, candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 vote have won GOP nominations this year for nearly two-thirds of state and federal offices with power over elections. 6 attack, and the conduct of Trump and his aides on that day and in the lead-up to it. Tuesday night, after calling Hageman to concede, Cheney told a crowd that “now, the real work begins” and promised that she “will do whatever it takes to ensure Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.” Her Tuesday-night event had the feel of a presidential announcement speech in many ways — right down to its precise timing, with the sun setting behind Cheney on the Teton mountains. In Wyoming, Cheney said she plans to focus on the remainder of her congressional term — serving constituents in Wyoming and fulfilling her role as vice chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. “I believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded. Liz Cheney — the once-high-ranking Republican who defied her party to wage a lonely crusade against former president Donald Trump — hinted Wednesday about a White House bid after losing her Wyoming primary in a landslide. The result in Wyoming’s primary reflected Trump’s enduring influence on Republican primary voters, who in many races this year have rallied behind those embracing his grievances and false claims, even as his preferred candidates have not always won.