{"id":1233865,"date":"2022-01-23T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233865"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:52:36","slug":"liz-cheney-loses-wyoming-straw-poll-to-trump-backed-harriet-hageman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-loses-wyoming-straw-poll-to-trump-backed-harriet-hageman\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney Loses Wyoming Straw Poll to Trump-Backed Harriet Hageman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheney-loses-wyoming-straw-poll-to-trump-backed-harriet-hageman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman, endorsed by former President Donald Trump,&nbsp;showed a commanding lead against the&nbsp;Democrat-allied Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in a Saturday straw poll full of House&nbsp;candidates held by the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A secret ballot straw <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/9Ehtk#selection-3637.152-3641.1\">poll<\/a> of Republican&nbsp;party activists gave&nbsp;Hageman 59 votes, a 53 vote lead against Cheney, according to the&nbsp;<em>Casper Star-Tribune<\/em>.&nbsp;Cheney&nbsp;garnered only six votes, along with&nbsp;state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne), who received two votes, and&nbsp;Denton Knapp, who received one vote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After the secret ballot, which came eight months before the state\u2019s Republican primary, Hageman&nbsp;told the <em>Star-Tribune,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cI think it\u2019s a good sign. It\u2019s not an endorsement, but these are the county activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19186842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Hageman-ap-er-210909_1631212225584_hpEmbed_22x15_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19186842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Hageman-ap-er-210909_1631212225584_hpEmbed_22x15_992.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet Hageman smiles during gubernatorial debate in Casper, Wyo., Aug. 1, 2018.\" width=\"992\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Harriet Hageman smiles during gubernatorial debate in Casper, Wyoming, August 1, 2018. (AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the state party is not allowed to endorse a candidate in the primary, according to the&nbsp;<em>Star-Tribune<\/em>, the poll enables party-goers to see what the current party leadership is thinking months ahead of the primary. Since Wyoming\u2019s&nbsp;central committee is made up of 74 votes, consisting of three&nbsp;representatives from each&nbsp;county and members of the state party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In response to the vote,&nbsp;Jeremy Adler, a spokesperson for the Cheney campaign, said,&nbsp;\u201cThe only elections that matter are in August and November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;report acknowledged that only 71 members voted in the straw poll, including three of&nbsp;Hageman\u2019s family members. The report noted that there are&nbsp;196,179 registered Republican voters in Wyoming, and straw polls have not had an accurate track record in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Although, the straw polls showed the ongoing conflict between the state party\u2019s leadership and&nbsp;Cheney when she started to break with Trump. Cheney, in the past, has even <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/o\/9Ehtk\/https:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/wyoming-gop-cheney-trade-barbs-after-she-calls-party-leaders-radical\/article_aa45c23e-463d-5ad9-8271-0a524d2b823d.html\">called<\/a> the state\u2019s party leader,&nbsp;Wyoming\u2019s GOP Chairman&nbsp;Frank Eathorne, a radical.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the&nbsp;Wyoming Republican Party also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/wyoming-republican-party-votes-liz-cheney-no-longer-recognized-as-republican\/\">voted<\/a> to&nbsp;no longer recognize Cheney as a member of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>During an&nbsp;exclusive interview on&nbsp;<em>Breitbart News Saturday,<\/em>&nbsp;Hageman said that Cheney has been using her seat to&nbsp;pursue a political vendetta against Trump instead of focusing on&nbsp;representing the people of Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>She added,&nbsp;\u201cLiz Cheney has lost Wyoming. Liz Cheney doesn\u2019t live in Wyoming. She doesn\u2019t represent us. She doesn\u2019t represent our values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman, endorsed by former President Donald Trump,\u00a0showed a commanding lead against the\u00a0Democrat-allied Rep. 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