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David Smith in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Liz Cheney fights for her House seat as Trumpists vow to ‘send her packing’

Democrats in Wyoming have been switching their registrations so they can vote for Liz Cheney in the primary.
Democrats in Wyoming have been switching their registrations so they can vote for Liz Cheney in the primary. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

Darin Smith says he remembers January 6 very differently from Liz Cheney and her congressional colleagues investigating the US Capitol riot.

“People were singing patriotic songs, the national anthem, hymns,” insists Smith, who was outside the Capitol that day to protest about Donald Trump’s election defeat. “There was a group of grey-haired ladies – the average age had to have been mid-70s – that were praying.”

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