{"id":1603594,"date":"2022-08-12T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603594"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:03:35","slug":"all-politics-is-local-in-wyoming-no-matter-which-way-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-politics-is-local-in-wyoming-no-matter-which-way-the-wind-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"All Politics Is Local in Wyoming, No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fall-politics-is-local-in-wyoming-no-matter-which-way-the-wind-blows%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=1603594&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>ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.\u2014The late-afternoon thunderstorm barreled down the chalky face of White Mountain and rolled east into the Red Desert, where it would dissipate and disappear in the expanse of the Great Divide Basin\u2019s sagebrush steppe.<\/p>\n<p>In the blow\u2019s wake returned the sun and the wind\u2014the flag-snapping, bush-bending winds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a> that scrape the land clear of snow in winter and can blow litter along I-80 from Utah 400 miles across the state to Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening in Washington, DC, on the cable news networks, in affairs elsewhere, is figuratively a million miles away from southwest Wyoming\u2019s Sweetwater County, but the people here know which way the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 8 FBI raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home is \u201cdefinitely going to help turnout\u201d for the state\u2019s Aug. 16 primaries, said state Sen. John Kolb (R-Rock Springs) during a candidate meet-and-greet at the Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they like the FBI to be used as a political tool,\u201d said Kolb, who is not up for reelection until 2024. \u201cWyoming is hyper-Republican. Obviously, people like Trump here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More so than any other state. Trump won 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming in 2020, one percentage point more than the state\u2019s lone congressional rep, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), got in winning her second term in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/12\/Chad-Banks-1200x900.jpg\"><\/a> Wyoming state Rep. Chad Banks (D-Rock Springs) said during an Aug. 11 meet-and-greet in Rock Springs, Wyo., that he hears \u201ca lot\u201d of Democrats will cross over to vote as Republicans for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in her Aug. 16 GOP primary battle against challenger Harriet Hageman. (John Haughey\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Cheney is up for reelection, but her odds of returning to Washington appear dim after voting to impeach Trump, serving as co-chair of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.\u2014The late-afternoon thunderstorm barreled down the chalky face of White Mountain and rolled east into the Red Desert, where it would dissipate and disappear in the expanse of the Great Divide Basin\u2019s sagebrush steppe. In the blow\u2019s wake returned the sun and the wind\u2014the flag-snapping, bush-bending winds of Wyoming that scrape the land [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"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-1603594","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\/1603594","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603594\/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=1603594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}