Liz Cheney

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) ran for re-election fulling realizing that winning isn't everything. That surely counts as a personal victory.

She was not one of the handful of Republicans who crossed the aisle to support the infrastructure bill; she was a no on that. Cheney has the calm detachment of a physician questioning a patient to confirm a diagnosis. She is admirable and maddening. She also has a way of delivering good news and making it sound like a prologue to the apocalypse. And then, when a hearing finishes, she gives generous hugs to the witnesses. 6 committee, one of only two Republicans on the panel, she has confronted Trump’s allies with facts and for that she has paid a tremendous political price, forced to wander in the political wilderness where she was befriended by Democrats aghast at right wing lies while also aghast at their sudden admiration for Cheney. She infuriated the new Republican Party, the one that has pledged its allegiance to former president Donald Trump, traffics in election lies and is laying waste to democratic traditions. She faced the cameras and the microphones. On recent bold face agenda items for the Biden administration, she has been a firm “nay.” To say that she’s been a splash of cold water would suggest that her votes have been out of character, a shock to the system. And so there she was on her fateful primary day dressed like an all-American Every Woman who was dutifully squeezing in a vote between grocery shopping and a video call with the office. She is exceptional and privileged. She was dressed in a manner that signifies regular folk, but of course, there’s nothing common about being part of a political dynasty.

She conceded defeat to Harriet Hageman, whose candidacy has been endorsed by the former president in the Republican primary. Ms Cheney, 56, has been one of ...

During the 2020 campaign, Mr Trump won the largest margin in Wyoming. He added that it is a "wonderful result for America". Most of the candidates Mr Trump has backed this election season have triumphed in a sign, his supporters say, of his continued sway over the party. Ms Cheney, a three-term conservative congresswoman, used her campaign to keep attention on Mr Trump's actions around the riot, and his continued false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, in a bid to persuade fellow Republicans the former president is a threat to democracy. Ms Cheney, 56, has been one of the most outspoken Trump critics in the Republican Party and was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump in 2021 following the 6 January Capitol riots. [Mr Trump still has a grip on the Republican Party](https://news.sky.com/story/for-good-or-ill-the-republican-party-has-placed-itself-in-the-orbit-on-donald-j-trump-12670564).

Harriet Hageman beats Cheney after the congresswoman's continued criticism of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

During her concession speech, Ms Cheney also criticised Republican attempts to defend Mr Trump after the FBI executed a search warrant on his home at Mar-a-Lago. So far, the only two Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump to win their primaries are Representative David Valadao of California, who faces a tough general election race, and Dan Newhouse of Washington. She was also one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump for his role in the riot. In June, Representative Tom Rice of South Carolina lost his primary to the Trump-endorsed Russell Fry. Earlier this month, freshman Representative Peter Meijer of Michigan lost his primary to John Gibbs, as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee highlighted Mr Gibbs’s pro-Trump bona fides. Her father, former vice president “No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect,” she said. [Harriet Hageman](/topic/harriet-hageman), whom Mr Trump endorsed, overwhelmingly beat Ms Cheney on Tuesday evening. I love my country more.” But now the real work begins.” “But it would've required that I go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election,” she said. I called her to concede the race.

The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president.

Critics of the ex-president declared Cheney the moral victor. Trump wrote on his social media platform: “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. “Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. She also warned that supporters of Trump’s “big lie” about voter fraud are currently running for state offices. I called her to concede the race. “It would have required that I enabled his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. She was watched by family members including her parents Dick and Lynne. And tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary. I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.

The three-term congresswoman is trounced by a relative political newcomer and Trump-backed candidate.

Conceding defeat, Ms Cheney signalled that this was the beginning of a new chapter of her political career. "We are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don't represent us." In the suburbs of the state capital of Cheyenne earlier, a group of Republicans were knocking on doors in a show of last-minute support for Ms Cheney - something they clearly accepted was an uphill battle. In her concession speech, Ms Cheney made clear she would not let up in her criticism of Mr Trump, who has been hinting he may run for the White House again in 2024. Elsewhere, Republican Sarah Palin - who is eyeing a political comeback - has advanced to November's election in Alaska in the race to represent the state in the House of Representatives. Ms Cheney was the last of the 10 to face the Trumpian assault.

Polls closed in Wyoming Tuesday night in a primary race that is expected to see former President Donald Trump's top GOP critic in the House, Rep.

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Liz Cheney's sustained criticism of former President Trump made her one of his top political targets. She has pledged her chief goal is to make sure he ...

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Ms Cheney fell to a rival backed by the former president.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. Tuesday’s primary contests in Wyoming and, to a lesser extent, Alaska demonstrated the enduring strength of Mr Trump and his brand of hard-line politics ahead of the November midterm elections. She pushed past GOP censures and death threats to serve as a leader on the congressional panel investigating Mr Trump’s role in the insurrection.

Ms Cheney fell to a rival backed by the former president.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. Tuesday’s primary contests in Wyoming and, to a lesser extent, Alaska demonstrated the enduring strength of Mr Trump and his brand of hard-line politics ahead of the November midterm elections. She pushed past GOP censures and death threats to serve as a leader on the congressional panel investigating Mr Trump’s role in the insurrection.

Liz Cheney delivers her concession speech. Liz Cheney speaks Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at a primary Election Day gathering ...

(She did manage to note that “Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and House before he won the most important election of all.”) More pointedly, she called out Trump for spreading lies that are likely to incite violence, and for revealing the names of the FBI agents who executed the warrant to search his offices in Florida. “Two years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the vote. Far from conceding, Lieberman said that “As I see it, in this campaign we just finished the first half and the Lamont team is ahead. But rarely do we see the kind of “concession” speech that Cheney delivered tonight. John McCain in 2008 made a point not just of congratulating Barack Obama but celebrating the victory.

When former President Donald Trump's faced a second impeachment over his role in the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, there were a total of 10 House Republicans ...

“And if we listen closely, they are speaking to us down the generations. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) I love my country more.” But now the real work begins.” [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. She also said this was the time for “real work” to begin. Their courage saved freedom,” Ms Cheney said. I called her to concede the race. “Tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary,” she said. “She won. [Abraham Lincoln](/topic/abraham-lincoln) and [Ulysses S Grant](/topic/ulysses-s-grant) to highlight the continuation of her fight against former president [Donald Trump](/topic/donald-trump). Ms Cheney had said she was aware of the possibility of a loss given her criticisms of the GOP and the former president.

Washington: US Representative Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol and a leading figure ...

“Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. “But it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.

Ms Cheney fell to a rival backed by the former president.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. Tuesday’s primary contests in Wyoming and, to a lesser extent, Alaska demonstrated the enduring strength of Mr Trump and his brand of hard-line politics ahead of the November midterm elections. She pushed past GOP censures and death threats to serve as a leader on the congressional panel investigating Mr Trump’s role in the insurrection.

Mr Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in what he falsely claimed was a “rigged” 2020 presidential election, today gloated over the defeat for his biggest Republican ...

I love my country more.” “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.” Reacting to the result on Wednesday, the third-term congresswoman said: “History has shown us over and over again how poisonous lies destroy free nations.”

Her lonely stance against Donald Trump was seen as treachery by today's cult-like Republicans.

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Rep. Liz Cheney arrives to a primary night event on August 16, 2022, in Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson, Wyoming (CNN) Rep ...

And on Wednesday morning, she told NBC's "Today" show that she is "thinking about" running for president and will make a decision in "the coming months." Cheney was by far the most prominent of the 10 House Republicans to vote in January 2021 for Trump's impeachment. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty," she said. Weeks after that speech, Cheney was elusive when asked about the possibility of running for president in 2024. This is a fight for all of us, together." Several people said they felt Cheney devoted far more time on national issues -- to the detriment of her focusing on energy and natural resource priorities of critical importance to the state. "It took a lot of courage to stand against the Republican Party and Donald Trump." Wyoming Republicans' reservations about Cheney were first evident in 2016, when she won her House seat after winning just 39% of the vote in the GOP primary against a fractured field. But she was right on the policies," he said. Cheney attempted to assemble a coalition of Democrats, independents and moderate and anti-Trump Republicans -- many of them ideological opponents of the neoconservative congresswoman before the last 19 months -- to save her seat. But the conservative faction has seized control of the state Republican Party and many of its local organizations. Cheney's ouster caps a summer in which Trump has purged the GOP of many of his critics, while elevating candidates -- including Hageman -- who have parroted his lies about widespread election fraud.

Republican Liz Cheney has lost her seat in Congress after voters in Wyoming elected a Trump-backed candidate in the primary elections.

Many of those praising her are “advocating a presidential run in 2024” when it is strongly rumoured that Trump will stand. The GOP is more “strongly motivated by what it hates than by admiration of Trump”. Trump allies are working to “censure or oust those who break with the new orthodoxy”. [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/9c4e8691-52d4-48be-aa63-c75c992297f8), voting with Trump 93% of the time during his stint in the White House. Instead, she declared that “no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect” and said she would “do whatever it takes” to stop Trump from becoming president for a She was one of two Republicans to join the committee and one of just ten to vote to impeach Trump.

Liz Cheney's top challenger was picked by Donald Trump, illustrating the competing sides of the party.

Conceding defeat, Ms Cheney signalled that this was the beginning of a new chapter of her political career. "We are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don't represent us." In the suburbs of the state capital of Cheyenne earlier, a group of Republicans were knocking on doors in a show of last-minute support for Ms Cheney - something they clearly accepted was an uphill battle. In her concession speech, Ms Cheney made clear she would not let up in her criticism of Mr Trump, who has been hinting he may run for the White House again in 2024. Elsewhere, Republican Sarah Palin - who is eyeing a political comeback - has advanced to November's election in Alaska in the race to represent the state in the House of Representatives. Ms Cheney was the last of the 10 to face the Trumpian assault.

Wyoming congresswoman says 'It's something I'm thinking about' after losing to Trump-backed challenger.

She explained: “I was so impressed with her integrity on the committee and the way she has stood firm, knowing damn well she was going to lose this election. He added: “This is not the end of Liz Cheney. Beyond “representing the people of Wyoming”, she said: “We have a tremendous amount of work left to do on the January 6 committee. “We’ve got to get this party back to a place where we’re embracing the values and the principles on which it was founded. I was born and raised here and this is the kind of integrity that Wyomingites, when I was growing, totally respected. This is the beginning. [Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, noted that the congresswoman received a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the JFK Library earlier this year. She expressed her belief that “the Republican party today is in very bad shape”. On Tuesday night she said she would “do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office”. “We need that, not the profiles in cowardice that the Republican party has today. Those who support him have lied to them and and they’re using people’s patriotism against them,” she said. She did not respond to the question directly but, when pressed a second time, admitted she was.

The three-term congresswoman has lost her at-large US House primary race in Wyoming against a Trump-backed opponent. What's next for the GOP lawmaker?

She conceded during a wide-ranging interview with ABC that she and her colleagues on the panel have not necessarily ruled out making a recommendation of criminal charges. “I think it’s less likely than people think that she’s going to retreat to a think tank,” said her former think-tank board member Mr Kristol in an interview with The New Republic. She later became one of only two GOP members to sit on the Democrat-appointed House committee investigating the events leading up to and during the Capitol riot. To do what I know is right for the country and to protect our Constitution?” she added. Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper recently, however, Ms Cheney confirmed that: “We anticipate talking to additional members of the president’s Cabinet. “Those of us who believe in Republican principles and ideals have a responsibility to try to lead the party back to what it can be.” Because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.” “And I’ll make a decision about ’24 down the road.” She serves as vice-chair of the panel. If she decides not to run, she will use her PAC money to support non-Trump candidates in 2022 and 2024.” The lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious — it preys on those who love their country,” Ms Cheney said in the closing-argument clip. “America cannot remain free if we abandon the truth.

Liz Cheney criticises the former president after losing to a Trump-backed candidate in Wyoming.

"[It] is something I'm thinking about and I'll make a decision in the coming months," she told Today. "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion." embraced Donald Trump [and] embraced his cult of personality." Speaking to Today, Ms Cheney said it was "dangerous" to elect officials who questioned the result of that election and described it as a "red line" that she would continue to resist. Ms Hageman - who ran to be Wyoming governor in 2018 - was handpicked by the former president and has said she believes the election Mr Trump ultimately lost to President Joe Biden was "rigged". A leading Republican critic of Donald Trump says the party has "embraced his cult of personality" after she was ousted in a primary election.

Ms Cheney - once a rising star in the party - also voted to impeach Mr Trump. The primary election in the broadly conservative state highlighted the competing ...

"[It] is something I'm thinking about and I'll make a decision in the coming months," she told Today. "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion." embraced Donald Trump [and] embraced his cult of personality." Speaking to Today, Ms Cheney said it was "dangerous" to elect officials who questioned the result of that election and described it as a "red line" that she would continue to resist. Ms Hageman - who ran to be Wyoming governor in 2018 - was handpicked by the former president and has said she believes the election Mr Trump ultimately lost to President Joe Biden was "rigged". A leading Republican critic of Donald Trump says the party has "embraced his cult of personality" after she was ousted in a primary election.

Trump Republican adversary makes clear that while Trump won the primary battle, the war for the soul of the party rages on.

[Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), 76, who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, said that “of course” she would like see Cheney run for the White House in 2024. It has proved a winning formula in primaries that reward the loudest voices but could yet backfire on the party in the midterm elections, where centrist voters are put off by extremism. But Adam Kinzinger, Cheney’s Republican colleague on the January 6 committee, is confident that she will not yield. She is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him: eight have lost their primary or retired, while only two stand a chance of surviving to the next Congress. For now, Trump will feel that Tuesday demonstrated that revenge is a dish best served Maga. But if the field is crowded and divided, for example between Trump, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, and former vice-president Mike Pence, she could make a symbolic impact in the “moderate” lane. The journeys of these two fiftysomething women neatly sum up where the Republican party is at. If Trump’s not seeking the nomination, he’ll still get to select the nominee. Democrats would be anxious to avoid a repeat of 2000 Heath Mayo, 32, a lawyer, said: “On the question about the future of the party, there are few people making an argument counter to the prevailing Trumpism argument. Keep making the argument.” She invoked Abraham Lincoln, who lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.

The Republican representative has said a 'united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents' is needed to defeat 'the grave threat' of Donald Trump.

But Senator Lisa Murkowski, another Republican who has defied the former president, cleared a hurdle in Alaska. “It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. [US ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/united-states?ico=in-line_link)Republican Representative and staunch critic of [Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link), has said she is “thinking about” running in the 2024 presidential election despite being defeated by a supporter of the former president in a primary contest in Wyoming.

Congresswoman Liz Cheney lost the Republican primary to Donald Trump-backed Harriet Hageman by a more than 35-point margin.

She filed to transfer remaining funds from her federal campaign to the new PAC. Overnight, Cheney formed a political action committee (PAC) called The Great Task. ‘I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic,’ she said. Hageman’s victory is the latest among Trump-supporting candidates. She was then pressed by ‘That’s a decision that I’m going to make in the coming months, and I’m not going to make any announcements here this morning,’ Cheney told Samantha Guthrie of the TODAY show.

The Republican representative, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, said Donald Trump continues to pose a "great threat to our republic" and ...

[How FBI raid may help Trump as he mulls White House bid](https://news.sky.com/story/how-fbi-raid-may-have-helped-donald-trump-as-he-considers-second-white-house-bid-12669242) [Are Republicans weighing up a second act of the Trump show?](https://news.sky.com/story/biden-disappointment-presents-opportunity-for-republicans-who-weigh-up-second-act-of-trump-show-12659755) [choosing not to answer pleas](https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-watched-capitol-riots-on-tv-in-white-house-dining-room-instead-of-intervening-investigation-hears-12656642) from Republican politicians to intervene and stop the violence for hours after the riots began. Ms Cheney also accused Mr Trump of "sending a mob to attack the Capitol" after refusing to accept Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. [Mr Trump still has a grip on the Republican Party](https://news.sky.com/story/for-good-or-ill-the-republican-party-has-placed-itself-in-the-orbit-on-donald-j-trump-12670564), as his critics fear he is considering running for president again in 2024. [defeat to Harriet Hageman](https://news.sky.com/story/republican-liz-cheney-looks-set-to-lose-wyoming-seat-to-trump-backed-candidate-12674893) on Tuesday, whose candidacy was endorsed by Mr Trump in the Republican primary. The Republican representative, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, said Donald Trump continues to pose a "great threat to our republic" and she will do "whatever it takes" to keep him out of office.

Donald Trump says Republican voters sent Liz Cheney to "political oblivion" with her crushing election defeat at the hands of a candidate he endorsed.

Despite the adulation Cheney is getting today from Democrats, she is a conservative, anti-abortion Republican who voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time when he was in the White House. Wyoming may not be the template for the rest of the country. She says she hears from Republicans who were proud to vote for the former president but now say they are done with Trump because of all the drama. Clearly Liz Cheney isn't planning to retire quietly to the mountains of Jackson Hole. She wouldn't even need to be a candidate because she already has name recognition and cable news hosts are longing to book her. So I was a little taken aback by the vehemence of his email celebrating congresswoman Cheney's defeat to a Trump-backed candidate in her primary race on Tuesday. She's spoken about the bravery of the women who have testified in the 6 January hearings, contrasting them with the men who didn't speak up. And she could be part of it. But beating Trump herself is not what matters to Cheney. His cows had escaped and he needed help to get them back, I was the only person on horseback at the time. She has burned too many bridges with millions of Trump supporters. But not so fast - here's how one of the former president's biggest critics could still hurt him if he runs for re-election.

Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, Liz Cheney voted to impeach Donald Trump over the insurrection. She then accepted the appointment by Speaker Nancy ...

She benefited from the advice of his lieutenants and the funding of his donors. She’s evidence that people can be flawed in all sorts of ways, but still act with bravery and integrity when the time comes. That demonstrates the kind of integrity which most tribalists would struggle to understand, let alone replicate. And they knew they stood little chance of winning an election as an independent in the British system. And the answer to that is: yes. Hageman secured 66.3 per cent of the vote to Cheney’s 28.9 per cent. Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, Liz Cheney voted to impeach Donald Trump over the insurrection. In 2019, when Boris Johnson was trying to unlawfully suspend parliament so he could force through a no-deal Brexit, certain key figures in the Conservative Party stood up to him. Because they are, at the moment, two of the bravest figures in American politics. Summer trundles on, the lovely weather only marginally ruined by the knowledge that it is the result of imminent environmental and societal collapse. So, if you like to keep things simple, that should be the end of the story. He was a key figure behind the invasion of Iraq, the widespread use of wiretapping and the reintroduction of torture to American policy.

Liz Cheney had long expected to lose the Republican primary race in Wyoming — and with it her seat in the US House of Representatives — to Donald ...

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After Harriet Hageman — the Trump-backed victor in Wyoming's Republican primary — said her opponent didn't concede, the Cheney campaign provided a ...

When Hannity sought to clarify that she was alleging Cheney had “just said ‘Hello, Harriet’ and then hung up,” Hageman reiterated: “That was the end of the call, yes.” She made the one effort and all she said was ‘Hello, Harriet.’ And then that was the end of it,” Hageman said. It includes only one message directly from Cheney, though they said Hageman’s team received other communications from elsewhere in the defeated incumbent’s campaign. Cheney added that she never heard back from Hageman. “It is about 8:13 on Tuesday the 16th, I’m calling to concede the election and congratulate you on the win. The message as played on-screen contains only Cheney’s two-word greeting before sound cuts off for more than 10 more seconds.

Mr Biden had called the Wyoming congresswoman and Trump critic as the 45th president wasted no time in taking a victory lap, Bloomberg reported.

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The Republican veteran is the last true conservative in a wilderness of nativism, personality cults, and anti-government paranoia.

It’s not Cheney who has abandoned her party but, rather, the party that abandoned her. For Cheney, however, her challenge is to cut out a political career in a landscape where she’s now a pariah: too conservative to join the Democrats, too anti-Trump for the Republicans. Biden is notoriously bipartisan, believing in a politics based on concessions and cross-party agreements, and it might appeal to his vision of America if traditional conservative voices are not entirely frozen out. That left a path to the White House for Bill Clinton who won with just 43 per cent of the vote, the lowest since 1912 when the big beast Teddy Roosevelt shook things up with his Progressive Party (Wilson won with a 41.8 per cent share). As Speaker of the House in the 90s, Gingrich ensured that this nasty attitude became habitual, turning politics into a bloodsport, and although Cheney has thrived in the atmosphere that prevailed thereafter (there were few more bruising players than her father), Trump has now taken it to a place where she could not follow. It is also unlikely but not entirely unfeasible that Joe Biden might make room for her in his administration or offer her a role in wider government. She has really helped me to decode the ideological currents informing all the different sectors of the attack.” Though she clearly hopes that the Republican Party will eventually come around and cleanse itself of the Trump toxin, it’s hard at this stage to believe that’s an inevitability. To that end, she still has work to do on the 6th January Committee. There was no surprise that Cheney lost her primary in Wyoming, winning just 28.9 per cent of the vote she’d previously won by a whopping 73 per cent in 2020. Wyoming is home to Crook County, a fairly flat stretch of land with a very peculiar feature: a spire of solid rock that erupts out of the ground to a height of more than 1,000 feet. Liz Cheney came face-to-face with the alien host that has wholly taken over her Republican Party.

Liz Cheney just got trounced by a Trump-backed candidate - but the ex-president's critic isn't going away.

Despite the adulation Cheney is getting today from Democrats, she is a conservative, anti-abortion Republican who voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time when he was in the White House. Wyoming may not be the template for the rest of the country. She says she hears from Republicans who were proud to vote for the former president but now say they are done with Trump because of all the drama. Clearly Liz Cheney isn't planning to retire quietly to the mountains of Jackson Hole. She wouldn't even need to be a candidate because she already has name recognition and cable news hosts are longing to book her. So I was a little taken aback by the vehemence of his email celebrating congresswoman Cheney's defeat to a Trump-backed candidate in her primary race on Tuesday. She's spoken about the bravery of the women who have testified in the 6 January hearings, contrasting them with the men who didn't speak up. And she could be part of it. But beating Trump herself is not what matters to Cheney. His cows had escaped and he needed help to get them back, I was the only person on horseback at the time. She has burned too many bridges with millions of Trump supporters. But not so fast - here's how one of the former president's biggest critics could still hurt him if he runs for re-election.