Donald Trump lashed out at Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney after her resounding primary defeat on Tuesday, stating that she’should be ashamed of herself’ for her campaign performance.
Cheney lost to Trump’s hand-picked opponent Harriet Hageman, who was a 2018 Wyoming governor contender, a former friend of Cheney’s, and who worked on her 2014 U.S. Senate campaign.
In a late-night Truth Social post, Trump enthusiastically expressed his hope that Hillary ‘will finally go into the depths of political oblivion.’
The former president referred to the House Select Committee examining the January 6 Capitol riot and its members as a “full repudiation of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.”
In addition, he called Cheney’s role in the probe “malicious and sanctimonious” and concluded his message with “Thank you, Wyoming!”
In a concession address in Jackson, Cheney drew parallels between himself and Abraham Lincoln, who lost a series of elections before to capturing the White House.
Cheney remarked that Abraham Lincoln lost elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most crucial election.
Cheney described how she won her primary by more than 70 points two years ago.
She remarked, “I could have simply repeated my actions – the route was plain.”
She said that all she had to do was spread the election fraud allegations of former President Donald Trump and support his assaults on the democratic system.
Cheney said, “I could not and would not pursue that road.”
“This is not a game,” stressed Cheney. Everyone must be dedicated to the perpetual protection of this amazing experiment known as the United States,’ she added. After her address, Trump posted on Truth: ‘Liz Cheney’s uninspired concession speech, in front of a “small” audience in the Great State of Wyoming, centered on her opinion that the 2020 Presidential Election was not Rigged & Stolen, despite enormous and incontrovertible proof to the contrary.’
‘It was an essential need, and that’s without even considering the fact that major electoral reforms in various states were not authorized by state legislatures. Liz Cheney is a fool who played directly into the hands of those who want to destroy our nation!’ the former president said.
Hageman, speaking to supporters at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Event Center, described her victory as an attempt to ‘dislodge entrenched politicians’ from Washington, D.C.’s ‘uni-party’ – those Democrats and Republicans who don’t care which party is in power so long as they are.
“Wyoming has put the elites on notice,” Hageman said, adding, “you darn well better live in Wyoming” if you want to represent the Cowboy State. All of the Wyoming Republicans DailyMail.com met with outside Cheyenne’s historic Storey Gymnasium on Tuesday had voted for Hageman, while the lone Democrat said he elected to stay with his party and not support Cheney.
Voters in Wyoming may transfer political parties on election day. They may vote at any polling location, but must provide identification.
Roger Forystek, a 58-year-old insurance agent who resides in Cheyenne and works in the insurance industry, said, “First and foremost, she should serve her voters, and she’s not doing that, which is why she’s being voted out. Secondly, she didn’t grow up in Wyoming.”
Cheney shared her time between Casper and Washington, D.C., owing to her father’s political career.
In addition, she is kind of a spoilt brat, in my view. She is a pampered child. Forystek continued, “She is so used to getting her way that when she doesn’t, she throws a tantrum.” Cheyenne resident Tacy West, age 77, had an even harsher opinion.
She descends from a criminal family. Her father was a prominent pedophile,’ West told DailyMail.com.
Dick Cheney has never been accused of pedophilia, therefore there is no factual foundation for West’s statement.
Representative Liz Cheney uploaded a picture of herself voting in Jackson, Wyoming.
Representative Liz Cheney uploaded an image of herself voting in Jackson, Wyoming.
She acts insane. When you look into her eyes, she is not there,’ West said.
A local priest, who requested anonymity due to his profession, told DailyMail.com that he voted for Hageman “more so to slap Cheney.”
He said, “She is being taken to the principal’s office.”
Cheney, who presently serves as vice-chair of a House select committee, has become the most prominent Republican opponent of Trump in the House.
She has paid a price, losing her No. 3 leadership position in the House Republican Conference and being banned from Wyoming’s Republican Party, while the state’s voters in 2020 chose Trump over President Joe Biden by around 43 percentage points.
The daughter of the former Republican vice president has stayed consistent in her criticism, stating in a campaign advertisement this week that her party’s endorsement of Trump’s ‘great lie’ – his baseless assertions that the 2020 election was stolen from him – is a ‘disease’
In the video, she said, “The idea that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is pernicious.”
She said that the bogus assertions are a “door Trump created to deceive Americans into abandoning their ideals, sacrificing their freedom to justify murder, and disregarding the judgements of our courts and the rule of law.”
Abby Humble, a 20-year-old University of Wyoming student who supported Hageman, cites Cheney’s approach as the reason for her support.
Humble said DailyMail.com, “I don’t disagree with what she did; I believe she was just attempting to preserve the Constitution.” “But at the same time, I don’t believe that’s what the people of Wyoming intended… since, you know, many of them are Trump fans.”
Humble continued, “I believe she is advocating for herself and her own political agenda.”
Mike Lammers, a 67-year-old retiree and Democrat from Cheyenne, praised Cheney for taking a risk.
Lammers told DailyMail.com, “I still admire Liz a great deal and I genuinely respect what she’s doing for our nation.”
However, he claimed to have voted in his party’s primary.
I choose to remain a Democrat. Even though I am aware that many people are switching to Liz. ‘If I were a Republican voter, I would definitely vote for Liz,’ he remarked.
On January 6, Trump pledged to get retribution for Cheney’s criticism, impeachment vote, and leadership position on the House select committee.
If Liz Cheney loses tonight, the Fake News Media will do everything in their power to play it down and pretend it was not a vote on the Unselects – that it was of no consequence. Actually, that would be a huge thing, one of the biggest!’ he said on his Truth Social website hours before Wyoming’s voting closed on Tuesday.
On the day of the election, Trump phoned into a televised rally for Hageman and referred to the contest as “one of the most important primaries in the history of our nation.”
The previous president said, “The entire world is watching this one.”
He spoke to Hageman, who was critical of Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and backed Sen. Ted Cruz, as a “someone I’ve grown to know very well” and a “friend.”
Then he shifted his focus on Cheney.
‘This is your opportunity to send a message to the RINOs and the fake news media, the radical left lunatics, that we regrettably have too many of in our society, and you’re going to elect Harriet and tell warmonger Liz Cheney – so awful, so negative – Liz, you’re gone,’ Trump added.
Trump said that ‘few members of Congress in the history of our nation have individually wreaked greater harm than Liz Cheney.’ Trump said, “The Democrats utilize her for sound bites, they like to say “Republican Liz Cheney” and then they go into these horrible anti-Republican and anti-country sound bites.” It has been a catastrophe.
The former president stated, “She has assisted and encouraged the extreme Democrat Party in their uncontrolled, illegal, and deadly witchhunt – a witchhunt that never stops.”
He stated that Cheney promoted a “phony” and “grotesquely false and contrived frenzied political narrative” about the events of January 6.
Cheney has continuously fought back, stating on Tuesday to CBS that ‘whatever the conclusion, this is clearly the beginning of a war that will continue and continue’
This comment added fuel to the fire that she may have presidential aspirations.
“I’ll decide on 2024 in the future,” she told CNN in late July.
Due of security concerns, her short Wyoming campaign road schedule also contributed to this hypothesis.
Cheney’s campaign activities are never published, and media are only selectively notified, due to threats to her safety. Last week, This Town author Mark Leibovich wrote in The Atlantic that security is strong and paranoia runs deep in Cheney World, perhaps for good cause.
She travels with an armed Capitol Police protection, according to the New Yorker.
Hageman has been exhibiting the characteristic clutching and smiling associated with election victory.
She participated at a rally with Trump in late May and made an appearance with Donald Trump Jr. in June. In Cheyenne, she will host an election night celebration.
“You have been the finest president in my lifetime when it comes to handling the regulatory load we face,” she told Trump after his comments on the call Monday evening.
This praise is a result of her profession as a lawyer, in which she often fought against government laws and environmentalists, garnering her the moniker “the evil witch of the west” According to a 2009 feature on Hageman in High Country News, the title stems from her penchant for wearing all-black gothic attire.
Hageman has also accepted Trump’s election falsehoods, which he proceeded to harp on on a Monday night call, claiming that Democrats oppose voter ID laws because they want to cheat.
Because that is what they do, moaned Trump.
It’s a different Hageman from the one who backed Cheney, who was running for the House for the first time, and fiercely opposed Trump in 2016.
Hageman attended the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a delegate for Cruz and was a member of a group of Republicans who intended to ‘unbind’ delegates in an attempt to deny Trump the nomination.
In September 2021, when The New York Times exposed Hageman’s role in the initiative, she said that she had been duped.
She told the tabloid, “I heard and accepted the falsehoods the Democrats and Liz Cheney’s media cronies were spreading at the time, but that is ancient history as I soon recognized their charges against President Trump were false.”
“He was the greatest president of my lifetime, and I am honored to have renominated him in 2020.” And I’m pleased to endorse him today,’ the congressional candidate continued.