{"id":729895,"date":"2021-09-08T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=729895"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:20:19","slug":"trump-reportedly-set-to-endorse-liz-cheney-challenger-in-effort-to-oust-his-highest-profile-gop-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reportedly-set-to-endorse-liz-cheney-challenger-in-effort-to-oust-his-highest-profile-gop-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reportedly Set To Endorse Liz Cheney Challenger In Effort To Oust His Highest-Profile GOP Critic"},"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\">32<\/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-reportedly-set-to-endorse-liz-cheney-challenger-in-effort-to-oust-his-highest-profile-gop-critic%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=729895&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.208612686952\">\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has reportedly chosen his preferred candidate to oust Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to back attorney Harriet Hageman, three people with knowledge of his plans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/08\/trump-wyoming-cheney-510370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Politico<\/a>. Cheney, who was the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress before being <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/liz-cheney-ousted-house-republican-leadership-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ousted<\/a> from her position in May, is one of Trump\u2019s most vocal GOP critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Trump] interviewed a lot of people, and when it was done, it was clear she\u2019s in a class of her own,\u201d one Republican familiar with his decision told the outlet. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/anthony-bouchard-defends-impregnating-14-year-oldliz-cheney-romeo-juliet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Like The Romeo And Juliet Story\u2019: Anthony Bouchard, Primary Challenger To Liz Cheney, Defends Impregnating A 14-Year-Old)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7198354\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7198354\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7198354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Liz Cheney speaks to the media after being ousted from House Republican leadership on May 12. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317625136-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7198354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Liz Cheney speaks to the media after being ousted from House Republican leadership on May 12. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The coming endorsement is a test of just how much influence Trump still holds among Republicans after losing to President Joe Biden last November. He has repeatedly urged other Wyoming candidates to drop out before next year\u2019s primary in a bid to stop them from splitting the anti-Cheney vote and making her path to reelection easier.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/13\/10-republicans-voted-impeach-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Republicans<\/a> to vote to impeach the former president for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. She continued to speak out against his discredited claims of a rigged election and widespread voter fraud, resulting in her colleagues replacing her with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik as the no. 3 House Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/01\/trump-endorses-joe-kent-over-jamie-herrera-beutler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed<\/a> primary challengers to Republican Reps. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Jaime Hererra Beutler of Washington and Fred Upton of Michigan, all of whom voted to impeach him as well.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has reportedly chosen his preferred candidate to oust Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.Trump is set to back attorney Harriet Hageman, three people with knowledge &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729895","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\/729895","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729895\/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=729895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}