It was sung.
Facing Donald Trump had something suicidal for Liz Cheney, representative of Wyoming, the most Trumpist state in the country.
Republican voters have not forgiven him and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has been defeated by a wide margin against Harriet Hageman in the state primary.
Cheney will say goodbye to Congress.
Trump has consummated her revenge.
With a relatively small percentage scrutinized, it has been enough to consider the difference in votes by electoral experts as insurmountable.
The final results will take time to be known, but Trump's candidate was accumulating around 65% of the votes and Cheney, only 30%.
The desperate appeal to the Democrats to give him their support has not served to turn the polls around.
Cheney appeared too soon to admit defeat, when only around 15% of the votes had been counted.
“No position on Earth is more important than the principles we defend”, she has said, after recalling that two years ago she won those same primaries with 73% of the votes.
"There was a clear path to repeat it," he has said, but it would have involved lying, betraying his principles, the law and the Constitution by supporting Trump's hoaxes.
"This election has passed, but now the work begins," he added.
"We cannot abandon the truth and be a free country," he has also said after attacking Trump in his speech and saying that no electoral denier deserves to hold office.
During election day, seeing herself as a loser, Cheney promised not to throw in the towel: “Today is the beginning of a battle that will continue.
As a country, we are facing a time when our democracy is really under attack and under threat.
I think Republicans, Democrats and independents who believe deeply in freedom and who care about the Constitution and the future of the country have an obligation to put that above the party and I think that fight is going to continue, clearly." has said in statements to CBS.
There is speculation that Cheney may run in the Republican primaries for the presidential election.
His chances, today, are slim, even though there is a section of the Republican Party that doesn't like Trump.
But the primaries, in any case, would give him a loudspeaker with which to continue his battle against the former president.
With the fall of Cheney, only two of the 10 Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted in favor of
impeachment
of Trump for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 will be on the ballot on November 8.
But Cheney's case was special.
Between them there was a political confrontation, but also personal.
Liz Cheney, last June, in one of the sessions of the commission of investigation of the assault on the Capitol on January 6.J.
Scott Applewhite (AP)
Cheney and Trump had already had some friction in foreign policy and in the management of the pandemic.
She emphatically encouraged wearing a mask, sensitized by her father being vulnerable to the disease.
But what drove Trump crazy is that the total break came when Cheney openly acknowledged Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, refused to go along with the treadmill of the electoral theft hoax and tried to convince his fellow party members to respect the result.
On January 6, when she was at the Capitol to certify Biden's victory, she received a call from her father warning her that Trump had called to get rid of "the weak congressmen", the "Liz Cheney of the world", in the harangue he was giving to the masses before the storming of the Capitol.
Later, when she voted to
impeach
or censure Trump, her party stripped her of the position of Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives.
She began to receive threats and be harassed on the networks.
She hasn't even been able to campaign in Wyoming for security reasons.
Donald Trump, at a campaign rally with Harriet Hageman in Casper, Wyoming. Lauren Miller (AP)
She assumed the position of vice president of the House of Representatives commission that investigates the assault on the Capitol and has been especially combative.
"To my Republican colleagues who defend the indefensible: there will come a day when Donald Trump is not here, but your disgrace will remain," she snapped at the congressmen of her party in the first session of the commission.
Coming from the most Trumpist state in the country, where the former president won nearly 70% of the vote in the 2020 election, Cheney knew he was sacrificing himself.
Trump endorsed another candidate, Harriet Hageman, who has easily won the primary.
In such a republican state, moreover, winning the primaries is almost as much as being elected representative, since there is no doubt that she will win her Democratic rival on November 8.
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A long scrutiny in Alaska
Sarah Palin, who rose to fame as a vice-presidential candidate with Jon McCain in the 2020 elections, was participating in two votes on Tuesday.
One, to cover for four months the position of the representative from Alaska in Congress who died in March.
Another in the primaries to fill that position for two years in the mid-term legislative elections on November 8.
In the primaries, the first four candidates qualify and Palin should have no problems.
In the election to fill the vacant position, however, the count will be very long and complex given the preferential voting system that Alaska has adopted.
With that system, voters rank the candidates.
If no one achieves more than 50% of the first votes, the second option is taken into account, but for that, the full count of the first round must be completed beforehand.
For this reason, it is not expected to meet the chosen one before August 31, predictably.
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