{"id":1399330,"date":"2022-03-24T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399330"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:59:58","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-to-host-huge-fundraiser-for-liz-cheneys-opponent-harriet-hageman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-to-host-huge-fundraiser-for-liz-cheneys-opponent-harriet-hageman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy to Host Huge Fundraiser for Liz Cheney&#039;s Opponent,\u00a0Harriet 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\">22<\/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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-to-host-huge-fundraiser-for-liz-cheneys-opponent-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=1399330&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\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will host a fundraiser next week for Rep. Liz Cheney\u2019s (R-WY) opponent,\u00a0Harriet Hageman.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy will be joined by nearly 100 Republican members who support Hageman\u2019s bid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/10\/donald-trump-gop-has-massive-opportunity-to-exchange-warmonger-liz-cheney-for-gifted-elise-stefanik\/\">oust<\/a> \u201cwarmonger\u201d Cheney, Henry Rodgers of the Daily Caller first reported. The fundraiser will be held at the Washington, DC, home of Jeff Miller, a prominent lobbyist who supported McCarthy\u2019s rise to House speaker.<\/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>According to Punchbowl News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Jim Banks (R-ID), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), and David Bossie will co-host the event, among others. \u201cNeedless to say, the number of sitting House Republicans who are lining up against Cheney is quite stunning,\u201d the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/3-24-22-punchbowl-news-am\/\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s announced his stunning endorsement of Hageman in February. Party leaders typically rarely endorse against sitting members of Congress. But after Cheney\u00a0deserted\u00a0the Republican party by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/06\/dick-liz-cheney-join-democrats-january-6-capitol-festivities\/\">allying<\/a> herself with Nancy Pelosi\u2019s January 6 committee and reportedly \u201corchestrated unprecedented\u201d Republican\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/07\/report-liz-cheney-orchestrated-gop-sabotage-wapo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sabotage<\/a>, McCarthy presumably believed Cheney must be ousted from her seat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17861698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Harriet-Hageman-speaks-ap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Wyoming Republican gubernatorial candidate Harriet Hageman addresses a meeting of the Wyoming Business Alliance in Casper, Wyoming, on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (AP Photo\/Mead Gruver)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cheney responded to McCarthy\u2019s support of\u00a0Hageman by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/14\/wyoming-voters-have-pay-audience-liz-cheney\/\">charging<\/a> her supporters for an audience\u00a0during\u00a0one of her\u00a0infrequent visits to her home state.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s decision to support Hageman mirrors\u00a0the overall criticism of Cheney.\u00a0\u201cLiz Cheney has lost Wyoming. Liz Cheney doesn\u2019t live in Wyoming. She doesn\u2019t represent us,\u201d Hageman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/23\/liz-cheney-loses-wyoming-straw-poll-trump-backed-harriet-hageman\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0Breitbart News in January. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t represent our values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney, who has constantly backed the establishment\u2019s status quo, has\u00a0dramatically\u00a0fallen out of favor with Republicans. In May,\u00a0Cheney was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&#038;cx=partner-pub-9229289037503472:6795176714&#038;q=https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/12\/house-republicans-remove-warmonger-liz-cheney-leadership\/&#038;sa=U&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjlr_nl1of2AhXvhXIEHSNhD6w4EBAWegQIAxAC&#038;usg=AOvVaw22Z00MO_VoLJE2rWAu6aiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">removed<\/a>\u00a0as GOP conference chair after the Republican caucus held a no-confidence vote upon reaching a boiling point with the daughter of the former vice president Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19599314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP21355817052638.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19599314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP21355817052638.png\" alt=\"Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, listens as Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., makes his case before the House Rules Committee seeking contempt of Congress charges against former President Donald Trump&#039;s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 14, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite, File)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice-Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) of the House panel investigating the January 6, listens as Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) makes his case before the House Rules Committee seeking contempt of Congress charges against former President Donald Trump\u2019s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows at the Capitol in Washington, December 14, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In November, the Wyoming GOP\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&#038;cx=partner-pub-9229289037503472:6795176714&#038;q=https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/wyoming-republican-party-votes-liz-cheney-no-longer-recognized-as-republican\/&#038;sa=U&#038;ved=2ahUKEwj4hdWR14f2AhXXl3IEHeQTDDwQFnoECAAQAg&#038;usg=AOvVaw0T7xHI340oiHKXq2Ap2iVK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">voted<\/a>\u00a0to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican. The Republican National Committee in February symbolically censured Cheney for allying with Democrats and are weighing whether to\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/04\/rnc-weighs-funding-liz-cheney-america-first-opponent-harriet-hageman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defund<\/a>\u00a0her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a straw poll among GOP activists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/23\/liz-cheney-loses-wyoming-straw-poll-trump-backed-harriet-hageman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0Trump-endorsed Hageman holds a commanding lead over Cheney. The poll,\u00a0conducted by the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee via secret ballot, showed Hageman won 59 votes and Cheney six, a 53-point victory by Hageman.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney has a powerful fundraising machine with which to oppose Hageman\u2019s surging campaign. But Hageman has growing support among Wyoming voters, former President Donald Trump, and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel, who reportedly\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicoalex\/status\/1486497255624429571?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed<\/a>\u00a0Cheney the \u201cringleader\u201d of the \u201ctreasonous ten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The Wyoming primary is on August 16.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will host a fundraiser next week for Rep. Liz Cheney\u2019s (R-WY) opponent,\u00a0Harriet Hageman. 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