{"id":1609581,"date":"2022-08-16T21:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609581"},"modified":"2022-08-16T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:48:02","slug":"wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Republicans Throw Liz Cheney Out Of Congress"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress%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=1609581&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>Wyoming voters ended Rep. Liz Cheney\u2019s congressional career on Tuesday night, nominating Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman instead for the at-large seat in the deep-red state this November. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1559706961389789192?s=20&#038;t=Fcpl02C5CzvmgzSReXRNHw\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Cheney, a three-term incumbent, lost after the congresswoman was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/12\/house-republicans-boot-warmonger-liz-cheney-from-party-leadership\/\">overwhelmingly<\/a> kicked from her number three role in House leadership as chair of the Republican conference. The Wyoming lawmaker traded her influential perch in GOP leadership for a lead act spearheading the Democrats\u2019 latest anti-Trump crusade in the form of the Select Committee on Jan. 6, on which Cheney is vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the 2021 Capitol riot, Cheney embarked on a futile campaign to recruit Republican colleagues for the Democrats\u2019 snap impeachment of outgoing President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,\u201d Cheney said in a statement at the time. \u201cEverything that followed was his doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In all, only nine GOP lawmakers joined the effort, some of whom had already announced their intent before Cheney\u2019s announcement, calling into question Cheney\u2019s real influence. The ensuing months would see Cheney stripped of her title in House leadership as the congresswoman embarked on a never-ending feud with Trump as a hallmark of her time in the lower chamber. <\/p>\n<p>By September, Hageman announced a primary campaign to unseat Cheney with Trump\u2019s endorsement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiz Cheney has burned all of her bridges with Republicans,\u201d Hageman told supporters at a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/10\/the-gop-civil-war-liz-cheney-waged-is-here-and-it-just-might-throw-her-out-of-congress\/\">campaign kickoff<\/a> in the southwest capital of Cheyenne, blasting the state\u2019s sole representative as wasting the entire year on \u201cnothing less than a vengeance tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney welcomed the challenge with a tweet that didn\u2019t age well. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s a sound bite for you,\u201d Cheney wrote. \u201cBring it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/committee\/C00607556\/\">$15 million<\/a> raised to protect her seat, however, Cheney failed to triumph in the state, which voted for Trump in 2020 by a wider margin than anywhere else in the country. Of the nine other members who supported Trump\u2019s second impeachment, four retired, three lost their primaries, and only two prevailed. Now Cheney, the final member of the GOP impeachment caucus to face primary voters at the ballot box, will become the eighth to leave office. Her time as leader of the congressional neoconservatives who embrace an aggressive interventionist foreign policy has also come to an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectionWiz\/status\/1559715446663876608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-6.png 590w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-6-300x95.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>While Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/20\/liz-cheney-rakes-in-more-money-from-northern-virginia-than-from-her-home-state-wyoming\/\">relied<\/a> almost entirely on out-of-state support to fund her desperate re-election campaign among voters she rarely visited, Hageman spent the prior 11 months traveling the state to build a grassroots coalition for a fraction of the cost. Hageman raised less than a third of Cheney\u2019s overall receipts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/candidate\/H2WY00166\/\">according<\/a> to public campaign finance data, much of which did not come until after the rare <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/17\/exclusive-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-endorses-top-cheney-opponent-harriet-hageman-in-wyoming\/\">endorsement<\/a> from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in February. <\/p>\n<p>Members of House leadership do not typically back primary efforts against incumbent lawmakers. Cheney, however, became a \u201cspecial case,\u201d which is how she described her own support for Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s primary rival two years ago as Republican House Conference chair. McCarthy also pledged in July he would support Hageman\u2019s request to be placed on the House Natural Resources Committee to navigate the state\u2019s myriad of public lands issues. Despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42346.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half<\/a>\u00a0the state being under the jurisdiction of the federal government, Cheney left the committee in her third term to focus on feuding with the former Republican president. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s obsession with Trump not only antagonized members of her own party on Capitol Hill but also sank her in Wyoming, where residents <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/29\/a-farce-heres-what-wyoming-voters-really-think-of-liz-cheney-and-her-sham-j6-committee\/\">scoffed<\/a> at the Cheney-directed theatrics of the Soviet-style Jan. 6 Committee and the state party <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/wyoming-gop-no-longer-recognizes-liz-cheney-as-a-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> to no longer recognize her as a Republican. When The Federalist asked Wyoming voters at Cheyenne\u2019s Frontier Days rodeo festival what they thought of the Jan. 6 investigation, voters called it a \u201c<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\">farce<\/a>\u201d and labeled Cheney a \u201chypocrite\u201d and a \u201ctraitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they beat that drum until it died,\u201d said retired, 22-year Cheyenne resident George Hoff in reference to the House panel. \u201cWhen she goes over to the Potomac, she forgets about Wyoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/09\/liz-cheney-snubs-voters-to-mingle-with-reporters-instead-calling-constituents-crazies\/\">skipped events<\/a> with constituents whom she called \u201ccrazies\u201d to mingle with reporters instead on her few trips to the Cowboy State. The late stages of her campaign took the form of a doomed candidate attempting to capitalize on the anti-Trump martyrdom for a future presidential run, with much of her campaign war chest left unspent at the conclusion of the contest. On the eve of the election, the Washington Post ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/15\/liz-cheneys-political-life-is-likely-ending-just-beginning\/\">headline<\/a>, \u201cLiz Cheney\u2019s political life is likely ending \u2014 and just beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the New York Times last week, Cheney broadened her targets to include any Republicans aligned with \u201cTrumpism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Cheney suggested she was animated as much by Trumpism as by Mr. Trump himself,\u201d the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/liz-cheney-trump-republicans.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAsked if the ranks of off-limits candidates included Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, whom many Republicans have latched onto as a Trump alternative, she said she \u2018would find it very difficult\u2019 to support Mr. DeSantis in a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that\u2019s very dangerous,\u201d Cheney added.<\/p>\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. 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