Harriet Hageman

Because Wyoming is consistently conservative, the winner of this primary is seen as the likely winner of the general election. Here is what you need to know ...

"I am proud to introduce my friend Liz Cheney," Hageman said at the time. She worked on Cheney's U.S. Hageman and Cheney's relationship has not always been controversial. "After spending time with Harriet, it is readily apparent she will always listen and prioritize the needs of her local communities and is focused on tackling our nation’s biggest problems," McCarthy told The Federalist. ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/15/timeline-liz-cheney-trump-gop-evolution/10224304002/) She served as a law clerk for a federal appeals judge. Here's how she's chasing a bigger win](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/08/14/liz-cheney-wyoming-primary-jan-6/10238435002/) Harriet Hageman is likely to become Wyoming's next representative to the U.S. Liz Cheney, fresh off Wyoming primary loss, says she's considering 2024 presidential run](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-president-2024/10345686002/) With the backing of former President Donald Trump, Liz Cheney](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-president-2024/10345686002/) in Tuesday's Republican primary and won. [Fresh off Wyoming primary loss, Cheney says she's considering a presidential bid](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-president-2024/10345686002/)

The lawyer appears to be the ideal candidate to carry Trump's rightwing banner into the midterms – but she hasn't always been aboard his train.

[ultra-conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation](https://mslegal.org/about/), she praised a US appeals court for [cutting through “emotional arguments”](https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/federal-court-affirms-wyomings-authority-to-manage-gray-wolves?source=policybot) and upholding the delisting of gray wolves. After trouncing Cheney, Trump’s most vocal critic within the Republican party, Hageman, 59, has a clear run at election success. [to the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/harriet-hageman-trump-cheney.html), was persuading a judge in 2003 to block regulations from Bill Clinton’s presidency protecting millions of acres of national forests from road-building, mining and other development. [calling him “the weakest candidate”](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/harriet-hageman-liz-cheney-trump.html) in the 2016 primaries, when she attempted to help maneuver the Texas senator Ted Cruz into the Republican presidential nomination, [to “the greatest president of my lifetime”](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/politics/kfile-harriet-hageman-endorsed-cheney-2016/index.html) when she eagerly embraced Trump’s endorsement as his chosen candidate to topple Cheney, his latest bete noire. She was a losing candidate in Wyoming’s 2018 contest for state governor, finishing a distant third to the eventual winner, Mark Gordon, and one other in the Republican primary, with barely 20% of the vote. [she beat](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/16/wyoming-republican-primary-liz-cheney-donald-trump-harriet-hageman) the incumbent and member of Wyoming’s political royalty, Liz Cheney, for the thinly populated western state’s solitary seat in the US House of Representatives.

Liz Cheney loses GOP primary to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman · She was elected in 2016 and became chair of the House Republican Conference just two years later.

6 select committee](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/mccarthy-cheney-house-midterms-jan-6), was enemy No. [10 House Republicans](https://www.axios.com/2021/01/12/trump-impeachment-house-republicans-capitol) who voted for his impeachment one of his top priorities of the cycle — and Cheney, the vice chair of the [Jan. However, our luck is likely to run out soon, scientists tell Axios. [income-targeted student loan forgiveness](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/student-loan-forgiveness-debt-cancel-biden) is shaping up to be a bureaucratic challenge for the Department of Education. [COVID-19 vaccin](https://www.axios.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-latest-news-quick-highlights)e approved in the U.S., [the company announced Friday](https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moderna-Sues-Pfizer-and-BioNTech-for-Infringing-Patents-Central-to-Modernas-Innovative-mRNA-Technology-Platform/default.aspx). Thank you WYOMING!" Hurricanes](/2022/08/26/atlantic-hurricane-season-quiet) [2024 presidential run](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/03/liz-cheney-2024-presidential-run). [fourth impeachment Republican](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/03/impeachment-republicans-trump-primaries) to lose renomination, on top of four others who are retiring. 6 panel, becoming vice chair and [the face](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/21/liz-cheney-jan6-committee)of its public hearings in June and July. [took an appointment](https://www.axios.com/2021/07/01/pelosi-jan-6-committee-members-cheney)from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Jan. [Liz Cheney](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/liz-cheney-primary-loss) (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday became the highest-profile House Republican to lose their primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after voting to impeach the former president, according [to AP](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-wyoming-alaska-48a5444f247727d26cf67a0a72f14637).

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.