{"id":1612223,"date":"2022-08-18T07:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612223"},"modified":"2022-08-18T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:35:37","slug":"trump-dismisses-media-coverage-of-cheney-having-bright-political-future-following-primary-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-dismisses-media-coverage-of-cheney-having-bright-political-future-following-primary-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dismisses Media Coverage of Cheney Having \u2018Bright\u2019 Political Future Following Primary Defeat"},"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%2Ftrump-dismisses-media-coverage-of-cheney-having-bright-political-future-following-primary-defeat%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=1612223&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>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> criticized the media for suggesting that Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wyo.) had a \u201cbright\u201d political future, after her defeat in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a> GOP primary on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fake News Media continues to push Crazy Liz Cheney and the fact that, despite losing her Wyoming Congressional race to a far superior candidate by an unprecedented 40 points, she has a \u2018bright\u2019 political future,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/108840692165369543\">wrote<\/a> on his Truth Social platform on Aug. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally? I don\u2019t think so, but perhaps that\u2019s why we call it the FAKE NEWS!\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/108839043277001547\">post<\/a>, Trump added, \u201cShe\u2019s too angry and sick to succeed in the future, but who knows!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/17\/GettyImages-1242549754-1200x831.jpg\"><\/a> Wyoming Republican congressional candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-harriet-hageman\">Harriet Hageman<\/a> waves as she takes a picture with children during a primary election night party in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 16, 2022. (Michael Smith\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Harriet Hageman, a natural resources attorney endorsed by Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/liz-cheney-loses-wyoming-primary-to-trump-endorsee-harriet-hageman_4666688.html\">defeated<\/a> Cheney by more than 37 points, taking 66.3 percent of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.wyo.gov\/Elections\/Docs\/2022\/2022PrimaryResults.aspx\">according to<\/a> the Wyoming Secretary of State\u2019s Office. Hageman picked up 113,025 votes to Cheney\u2019s 49,316.<\/p>\n<p>The margin of victory was greater than the estimate of a poll conducted before the primary. The University of Wyoming\u2019s Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center <a href=\"https:\/\/wysac.uwyo.edu\/wysac\/projects\/uw-survey-finds-hageman-leading-cheney-in-wyoming-gop-primary\/\">found<\/a> that Hageman was ahead by nearly 30 points, based on a survey conducted from July 25 to Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, serves as the co-chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. In June, Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), who also voted to impeach the former president, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fry-defeats-trump-targeted-rep-rice-in-south-carolina-congressional-race_4531299.html\">lost<\/a> by a huge margin of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enr-scvotes.org\/SC\/114143\/Web02-state.289375\/#\/cid\/27015?undefined\">26.5 points<\/a> in South Carolina\u2019s 7th Congressional District primary.<\/p>\n<p>It was a crushing defeat for Cheney, considering that she garnered 73.5 percent of the vote in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized the media for suggesting that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) had a \u201cbright\u201d political future, after her defeat in the Wyoming GOP primary on Aug. 16. \u201cThe Fake News Media continues to push Crazy Liz Cheney and the fact that, despite losing her Wyoming Congressional race to a far superior candidate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-1612223","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\/1612223","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612223\/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=1612223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}