Wyoming Republicans Throw Liz Cheney Out Of Congress By: Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/16/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress/
Cheney’s obsession with Trump not only antagonized members of her own party on Capitol Hill but also sank her in Wyoming.
Cheney, a three-term incumbent, lost after the congresswoman was overwhelmingly kicked from her number three role in House leadership as chair of the Republican conference. The Wyoming lawmaker traded her influential perch in GOP leadership for a lead act spearheading the Democrats’ latest anti-Trump crusade in the form of the Select Committee on Jan. 6, on which Cheney is vice chair.
Days after the 2021 Capitol riot, Cheney embarked on a futile campaign to recruit Republican colleagues for the Democrats’ snap impeachment of outgoing President Donald Trump.
“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” Cheney said in a statement at the time. “Everything that followed was his doing.”
In all, only nine GOP lawmakers joined the effort, some of whom had already announced their intent before Cheney’s announcement, calling into question Cheney’s real influence. The ensuing months would see Cheney stripped of her title in House leadership as the congresswoman embarked on a never-ending feud with Trump as a hallmark of her time in the lower chamber.
By September, Hageman announced a primary campaign to unseat Cheney with Trump’s endorsement.
“Liz Cheney has burned all of her bridges with Republicans,” Hageman told supporters at a campaign kickoff in the southwest capital of Cheyenne, blasting the state’s sole representative as wasting the entire year on “nothing less than a vengeance tour.”
Cheney welcomed the challenge with a tweet that didn’t age well.
“Here’s a sound bite for you,” Cheney wrote. “Bring it.”
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