Signal choice for Trump: no-name politician could outdo his fiercest opponent

Created: 08/17/2022 05:27

Former US President Donald Trump exiting Trump Tower in New York.

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Donald Trump is openly flirting with a candidacy in 2024. One of his biggest opponents among the Republicans, Liz Cheney, could now suffer a bitter defeat.

Cheyenne - The state of Wyoming is traditionally very conservative, and as a very conservative Republican, Liz Cheney has always had a seat in the US House of Representatives.

But this time she could already fail in the Republican primary on Tuesday: Because Wyoming is also Donald Trump country, and the former US President is doing everything to destroy Cheney's political career since she turned into his bitter opponent.

Archenemy Liz Cheney wants to prevent Trump's return to the White House

The 56-year-old is Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and says she wants to prevent Trump's return to the White House at all costs.

To do this, Cheney risks her own political career.

Because Trump, who received 70 percent of the votes in Wyoming in the last presidential election, has declared the Republican, who was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2016, to be his archenemy.

He never misses an opportunity to attack her personally.

The 76-year-old supported Cheney's opponent Harriet Hageman in Tuesday's primary with all his might.

The 59-year-old attorney actually has a good chance of running for the Republicans in November's US congressional elections in place of Cheney: Recent polls put her 20 to 30 percentage points ahead of the longtime MP in the primary.

Signal choice for Donald Trump: Cheney is considered the greatest adversary

It doesn't matter that the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a traditional right wing pro-gun, anti-abortion Republican.

The people of the most sparsely populated state in the USA resent her for a year in the strongest terms against the assertion, spread and repeatedly refuted by the Trump camp, that the ex-president's election victory was "stolen".

Liz Cheney has received a number of death threats for her involvement in the investigation into Trump and his associates and his role in the Capitol storm.

Since then she has been traveling through the "land of the cowboys" with a police escort.

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She had to conduct her campaign without election meetings and public events - because her own party treats her as a pariah.

"Liz represents voters who are in her head, not Wyoming voters," said Mary Martin, chair of the Teton County Republican Party.

Cheney resides there.

Trump, who to this day has not recognized his deselection in 2020, is openly flirting with running again in the 2024 presidential elections.