Cheney’s Day of Reckoning in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 Primary Election

John HaugheyAugust 15, 2022

CASPER, Wyo.—Aug. 16, 2022, has been circled in bright red on former president Donald Trump’s calendar for nearly two years now.

It’s the day he’s been waiting for—the day when Wyoming Republicans tell Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) what he told her during a May Casper rally: “Liz, you’re fired.”

Despite a massive fundraising advantage in the most expensive congressional campaign in Wyoming history, family name recognition, and a conservative voting record that aligned with Trump’s policies 93 percent of the time, Cheney is projected to lose her bid for a fourth term as the state’s lone congressional representative in the Aug. 16 GOP primary with Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.

Cheney has incurred the wrath of her constituents—70 percent of whom voted for Trump in 2020—for being among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him, serving as co-chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, and being among his most severe, unrelenting antagonists.

A residential street in Casper, Wyo., is lined with campaign streets signs but unless three-term incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has a stealth reservoir of support among Wyoming Republicans not detected in polls, challenger Harriet Hageman appears poised to convincingly win the state’s Aug. 16 GOP congressional primary. (John Haughey/The Epoch Times)

In February 2021, the Wyoming Republican Party voted to censure her, and in May 2021, she was a deposed as Republican Conference chair by her House GOP colleagues. On Aug. 16, Trump is pushing voters to oust her completely from Congress.

Hageman, raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie on the high plains of eastern Wyoming, is a Cheyenne natural resources attorney with a background in water rights and public lands litigation.

She is currently a senior counsel for Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance, focusing on litigation related to environmental regulations.

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