{"id":1583245,"date":"2022-08-01T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583245"},"modified":"2022-08-01T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:16:20","slug":"cnn-tried-to-find-people-in-wyoming-who-like-liz-cheney-it-didnt-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-tried-to-find-people-in-wyoming-who-like-liz-cheney-it-didnt-go-well\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Tried To Find People In Wyoming Who Like Liz Cheney. It Didn\u2019t Go Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fcnn-tried-to-find-people-in-wyoming-who-like-liz-cheney-it-didnt-go-well%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=1583245&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>CNN went to the Wyoming capital\u2019s annual cowboy and rodeo festival last week to learn how voters felt about their sole U.S. representative locked in an all-out feud with former President Donald Trump weeks before the state primary. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I cuss?\u201d said one resident bluntly when asked if she would send Rep. Liz Cheney back to Washington for a fourth term. After a nod, it was a \u201chell no.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d said another by a corn dog stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are your thoughts about Liz Cheney running for a fourth term?\u201d CNN\u2019s Randi Kaye asked one woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I think she\u2019s had three too many,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 16, voters will decide whether Cheney will keep her seat in Washington or if another candidate will take her place on the November ballot. Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman is the favorite to win the primary contest in a state that voted for the Republican president by a wider margin than anywhere else in the country. Last month, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/17\/cheney-trails-trump-endorsed-challenger-by-22-points-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> sponsored by the Casper-Star Tribune showed Hageman leading by 22 points.<\/p>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/29\/a-farce-heres-what-wyoming-voters-really-think-of-liz-cheney-and-her-sham-j6-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RELATED COVERAGE: A \u2018Farce\u2019: Here\u2019s What Wyoming Voters Really Think Of Liz Cheney And Her Sham J6 Committee<\/a>]\n<p>Kaye asked voters specifically what they thought about the House Jan. 6 Committee, which Cheney leads as vice chair and has weaponized to escalate a long-standing feud with President Trump. Cheney has even used the probe to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/12\/liz-cheney-is-using-the-jan-6-committee-to-persecute-an-activist-running-a-super-pac-to-unseat-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">go after<\/a> political opponents working to unseat her in Wyoming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all a hoax, it\u2019s all propaganda,\u201d said the man by the corn dog stand. \u201cIt\u2019s a witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with another voter named Brett Kupec outside the rodeo stadium, Kaye conveyed Cheney\u2019s explanations for serving on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Cheney] says she\u2019s defending what\u2019s important to people here in Wyoming,\u201d Kaye said. \u201cUpholding the rule of law, defending the Constitution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kupec responded by highlighting the committee\u2019s absence of meaningful opposition after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi barred minority appointments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that was the \u2018rule of law,\u2019 why doesn\u2019t [Trump] have a defense team in that courtroom?\u201d Kupec said. \u201cThat ain\u2019t the rule of law. That\u2019s a kangaroo court. That\u2019s not the Wyoming way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labeling the committee as a \u201ckangaroo court\u201d is a phrase Hageman told The Federalist at the fair last week that she hears often from voters around the state. So far, Hageman has traveled 36,000 miles on her campaign to replace Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat really is the moniker that people in Wyoming have used over and over again,\u201d Hageman said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a kangaroo court, and they\u2019re terribly embarrassed that our representative is a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one voter told CNN Cheney \u201chas been an embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The network ended the segment with interviews of two Cheney supporters, the only two that Kay conceded the television crew could find at the entire event in Wyoming\u2019s largest city. <\/p>\n<p>Shawn McKee told CNN he stood by Cheney because \u201cshe wants to maintain the integrity of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wants to make it to where it\u2019s not so much federally controlled,\u201d McKee said. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney, however, now the vice chair of Pelosi\u2019s Jan. 6 panel, no longer serves on the House Natural Resources Committee navigating the state\u2019s myriad of public land issues despite nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42346.pdf\">half<\/a> the state being under federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the first times in Wyoming\u2019s history that Wyoming\u2019s congressional representative is not on the Natural Resources Committee,\u201d Hageman told The Federalist at the \u201cFrontier Days\u201d festival, adding she expects an appointment if elected. <\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s office confirmed to The Federalist the Republican leader will back Hageman\u2019s request for an assignment to the committee but added final placement would ultimately be up to the Steering Committee after the midterms. <\/p>\n<p>Trump took a victory lap over CNN\u2019s Friday segment with a press release on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cICYMI: CNN Goes to Wyoming,\u201d the former president wrote, sharing a tweet from Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"7tUYNPmGWjDXAyp26wno2E8lpa9Bj07edTeUxQR5cvVBcAKGKbQH0rH4OmMnu5XYCI9akSMt8F\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so beautiful that I almost cried. It&#8217;s also why I find even her horrific polls to be overstating her level of support in my former state of Wyoming, a beautiful place whose wonderful people she clearly disdains. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUrDZyReZk\">https:\/\/t.co\/tUrDZyReZk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1553936879619301376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN went to the Wyoming capital\u2019s annual cowboy and rodeo festival last week to learn how voters felt about their sole U.S. representative locked in an all-out feud with former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}