United States Representative and Vice Chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was defeated in Wyoming's Republican congressional primary on Tuesday evening by challenger Harriet Hageman, a right-wing attorney whom former President Donald Trump endorsed on September 9th, 2021.
Cheney's leadership role on the bipartisan commission has put her at odds with the GOP's pro-Trump base and its compliance enforcers, who censured Cheney last year for her vote to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. That loyalty was cemented with Hageman's nearly thirty-point triumph – a drastic reversal from Cheney's landslide 2020 win when three-quarters of ballots cast were for her. Incidentally, Trump's lopsided victory in Wyoming over President Joe Biden – 43 percent – was greater than in any other state.
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