{"id":1527597,"date":"2022-06-24T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527597"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:19:34","slug":"liz-cheney-recruiting-democrats-to-vote-for-her-in-wyoming-republican-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-recruiting-democrats-to-vote-for-her-in-wyoming-republican-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney Recruiting Democrats To Vote For Her In Wyoming Republican Primary"},"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\">24<\/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-recruiting-democrats-to-vote-for-her-in-wyoming-republican-primary%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=1527597&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>Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-WY) is sending out mailers to recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a> Democrats to change parties and vote for her in the upcoming Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>The mailers, sent in recent days to Democrats in the state, give specific instructions on how people can switch their voter affiliation and vote for her in the August primary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/23\/us\/politics\/liz-cheney-wyoming-democrats.html\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cheney, criticized by many Republicans for her involvement with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/january-6-committee\">January 6 committee<\/a>, faces a Trump-endorsed challenger in Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman, whose campaign went after Cheney for the mailers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiz Cheney told The New York Times that she wouldn\u2019t be encouraging Democrats to raid the Republican primary, but I guess the drive to hold onto power is just too strong for her to keep her word,\u201d Hageman\u2019s campaign manager Carly Miller said. \u201cWhat Cheney doesn\u2019t understand is that Democrats will drop her like a bad habit after she\u2019s no longer useful to them on the Jan. 6 committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming\u2019s sole congressional representative had told the Times in February that she would not be making a concerted effort to earn the votes of Democrats in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not something that I have contemplated, that I have organized or that I will organize,\u201dshe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Cheney spokesman now says that she is \u201cproud to represent all Wyomingites and is working hard to earn every vote.\u201d Her campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/cheneyforwyoming.com\/vote\/\">website<\/a> also has a section devoted to instruction on how to change \u201cparty affiliation to register as a Republican\u201d to vote for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-backed-wyoming-gop-primary-challenger-hageman-slams-rep-cheney-reportedly-seeking-democratic-votes\">said<\/a> that Cheney has ended \u201call her relationships with Republicans\u201d and was just being used by Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats don\u2019t like Liz Cheney, and they\u2019ll discard her as soon as she\u2019s no longer useful as their attack dog on the January 6th Committee. And she\u2019s burned all her relationships with Republicans, so she truly cannot be effective for Wyoming anymore. Reaching out to Democrats to try to save her own political life just shows how desperate she is to hold onto power,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say that the gambit will likely not pay off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if every Democrat in the state switched over,\u201d Wyoming Democrat Party Chairman Joseph Barbuto said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019d be enough to help her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liz-cheney-dramatically-trails-behind-republican-challenger-poll-finds\">poll<\/a> from the Club for Growth, which is opposing Cheney, found that Hageman had 56% of the vote while Cheney only garnered 26%. The polling was conducted by the Republican firm, WPA Intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/27\/cheney-reelection-poll-00035597?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000016d-645c-d558-a9ed-e55f61ce0000&#038;nlid=630318\">Politico first reported<\/a>, noting that Club for Growth has not officially endorsed Hageman.<\/p>\n<p>The Wyoming Republican primary will be held on August 16.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) is sending out mailers to recruit Wyoming Democrats to change parties and vote for her in the upcoming Republican primary. 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