Voters in Wyoming wonder if Liz Cheney has lost her mind, #Wyoming #voters #Liz #Cheney #Lost #Mind Welcome to OLASMEDIA TV NEWSThis is what we have for you today:
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has lost the confidence of many Wyoming Republican voters heading for the August 16 primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
While Cheney has spent most of the campaign season in Washington, DC, with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-WY) on Jan. 6, a former Cheney donor, Nancy Donovan, who has given more than $35,000 to Cheney’s past campaigns, now asks Cheney’s mental state.
“I’m sitting there watching the January 6 hearings and I’m like, ‘Have you gone mad?'” told the Financial times† “This man [Trump] has every major institution after him, from the media to the swamp in Washington, DC, and now that one of his own party is doing the same?”
Cheney has also been criticized by leaders in the state. Teton County Republican Party Chair Mary Martin echoed Donovan’s sentiments. “Liz has broken the trust of many people and that is against the cowboy code,” she told the… Time†
Hageman, who leads the race with 28 and 30 points, has also pointed to Cheney’s participation in the Jan. 6 commission as an act of treason. Cheney “does not represent us and she betrayed us,” she told the publication. She said:
[Cheney] devotes her time to the January 6 committee. She has said very, very, very clearly that her priority is to prevent Donald Trump from ever being elected… People care about inflation and about the open border and about protecting our jobs and protecting our schools and the protecting our children. That’s not what she cares about right now.
On Sunday, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) warned that Cheney could lose her primary through his interaction with voters in Wyoming. “Now the elections are only a month away,” says Barrasso told Fox news. “Because of the trips I’ve been on across the state, I think she has a lot of work to do if she hopes to win the primaries.”
Barrasso also criticized Cheney’s alliance with Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee. “Politics in Wyoming is very personal,” Barrasso said. “It’s face to face. It’s city to city, and as you know, Liz and I disagree. I voted against the impeachment of President Trump. She was for it. I voted against the partisan committee of 6 January. She’s totally into that.”
Cheney is in hot water with the Republican Party after opposing former President Donald Trump, voting to impeach him and serving on the Jan. 6 commission that sought to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol incident without focusing on the alleged FBI informants there.
Cheney’s behavior has led to the condemnation of the Wyoming Republican Party and minority group leader Kevin McCarthy. After Wyoming’s GOP voted in November to no longer recognize her as a Republican, McCarthy announced in February that he supported Hageman to defeat Cheney, a rare move for a minority leader.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter and gettr @WendellHusebo. He is the author of Politics of slave morality†