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2022-08-17T08:41:39.788Z


The daughter of Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States who served under President George Walker Bush, lost by a margin of more than 30% to Harriet Hagman, a new candidate who received Trump's support. The loss proves once again how strong the former president's influence is on his electorate and the Republican Party


Victory for Trump: Congresswoman Liz Cheney lost in the Wyoming primary

The daughter of Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States who served under President George Walker Bush, lost by a margin of more than 30% to Harriet Hagman, a new candidate who received Trump's support.

The loss proves once again how strong the former president's influence is on his electorate and the Republican Party

Tali Goldstein

08/17/2022

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 10:13 am Updated: 11:30 am

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Voters in the state of Wyoming in the United States ousted Congresswoman Liz Cheney - among the few in the Republican Party who criticized former President Donald Trump - in the primary elections that took place tonight (Tuesday).



Liz, the daughter of Dick Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, who served under the President of the United States George Walker Bush, lost by a margin of more than 30% to Harriet Hagman, a new candidate who received the support of Trump.

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The 56-year-old Cheney was one of only two Republicans who joined the House of Representatives' investigative committee into the violent events on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. The ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the storming of the Capitol became targets of the revenge campaign by the former president's supporters.

So far, four of them have resigned from their positions, and four others have been defeated in the primaries in their states - in the states of Wyoming, Washington, Michigan and South Carolina.



The congresswoman for three terms was previously a rising star in the Republican Party and her family was considered political aristocracy in Wyoming.

Just two years ago, she won the primary with 73% of the vote.

However, in her loss speech tonight, she said: "I could have easily won again. The path was clear. But that would have required me to support President Trump's lie about the 2020 election. I would have had to allow his continued efforts to dismantle our democratic system and attack the foundations of the republic This is a path I could not follow."



According to her, a woman from Jackson, Wyoming, whose grandparents survived the Auschwitz extermination camp, told her that "she is afraid that if democracy dies in the United States, she will have nowhere to go."

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Dick Cheney (Photo: GettyImages)

Cheney made it clear that she does not intend to stop criticizing Trump, who has not yet announced whether he intends to run in the 2024 election.

"Since the storming of the Capitol on January 6, I've said again that Trump will not go near the Oval Office again, and I mean it," she added.



Trump congratulated Hagman on her victory in a post on his "Trut Social" network.

"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she behaved, her hateful and self-righteous words and the way she treated others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion, where I'm sure she'll be better off."



Hagman thanked Trump for supporting her and said that was the reason she won.

"Wyoming is warning the elite. We will no longer tolerate representatives who do not represent us."

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Harriet Hagman (Photo: GettyImages)

Yesterday's vote was a test not only for the Republican Party but also for the United States as a whole regarding the power that Trump and his legacy still have two years after he left the White House.

The former president and his allies managed during the spring and summer to turn the Republican primaries across the country into an arena of sharp confrontations where the question of absolute loyalty to Trump is at the center.



Trump did lose in a few states, including Georgia, where Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger managed to fend off the candidates he supported - but in most states, Trump's candidates won.

The victory in Wyoming is considered the biggest so far for Trump supporters.

Deputy Chairman of the House Select Committee on Capitol Hill Events. Liz Cheney (Photo: Reuters)

Cheney angered Republicans when she called on Wyoming Democrats and independent voters to change their party registration so they could vote in the primary.

Due to many threats she received during the campaign, Cheney preferred to hold smaller and more personal events over huge rallies.

She also attacked Trump in television interviews.



Her anti-Trump crusade during the Jan. 6 House impromptu hearings also angered local Republicans in Wyoming who accused her of putting her political ambitions ahead of state voters.

Democrats and independents praised her for taking a principled position even though it cost her a heavy price.



Her last message before the election was a TV ad in which her father, Dick Cheney, was seen calling Trump a "coward" who lied to his supporters and "tried to steal the last election" through the use of violence.



Cheney has not said what she plans to do now that she has lost her seat in Congress.

She also did not address the possibility that she will run in the presidential elections in 2024.

In her loss speech, she said that "I am a conservative Republican...but I love my country more. I am asking you tonight to join me: as long as we live here, we will make a decision to stand together, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, against anyone who would destroy our republic ".

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