Liz Cheney

The big picture: Former Vice President Dick Cheney in a viral ad earlier this week attacked Trump as a "coward," one week before his daughter's primary election ...

A majority of Americans are now fully vaccinated against the virus or have been exposed to it. It preys on those who love their country," Cheney says in the ad. They fled the scene after a response from special agents.

"The lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious. It preys on those who love their country. It is a door Donald Trump opened to manipulate ...

Rep. Liz Cheney is trailing her Republican challenger in Wyoming's upcoming GOP primary by nearly 30 points, according to a new University of Wyoming ...

An overwhelming number, 83%, of Ms. Cheney’s Wyoming supporters said they have followed the committee’s hearings very closely or somewhat closely, according to the survey. Of the respondents who say they will vote for Ms. Cheney, 66% say it is an expression of support for her. Of them, 98% support Ms. Cheney. Ms. Cheney was one of the 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Mr. Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In May, Mr. Trump sought to drive a wedge between Ms. Cheney and Wyoming voters calling her a Democratic “lapdog” in a campaign-stall rally in the state to bolster support for Ms. Hageman. Ms. Cheney has continued to dig into Mr. Trump’s involvement in the Capitol riot, pulling no punches against the former president in a series of public hearings by the committee over the summer. Roughly half the state’s population of registered Democrats likely to vote in the primary season say they will vote in the Republican primary. Of those who say they will vote for another candidate, just 29% say it is support of that person versus 44% who say their vote is in opposition to Ms. Cheney. However, just 8% of the likely voters in the GOP primary identify as Democrats and 21% identify as independents. The biggest drag on the incumbent congresswoman is that she is polling at about 15% among registered Republicans in the deep-red state, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Congress in more than 40 years and hasn’t backed one for president for longer than that. Among Wyoming residents likely to vote in the state’s Republican primary on Tuesday, 57% support Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman versus just 28% who back Ms. Cheney, with 10% undecided and the rest backing several other candidates. “The race for the Republican nomination appears to be a referendum on Cheney, as it usually is when an incumbent seeks reelection,” says Jim King, a professor of political science at the University of Wyoming.

All signs suggest she aims to turn a congressional defeat into a presidential campaign. Liz Cheney speaks.

As for Dad, can you believe he went viral on social media with a video that had nothing to do with Iraq or “enhanced interrogations”? More irony: He believed that the effort to hold presidents more accountable after Watergate had diluted the authority of the presidency, and spent his whole career trying to reverse that. Now my career is devoted to holding a lawless president accountable and educating people on the difference between democracy and dictatorship. “Let me say this to my friends in Wyoming and elsewhere. His whole movement is about harnessing contempt, and giving his backers the thrill of spitting back at politicians and journalists who think Trump supporters are “deplorables.” Why do you think I left so much of the money gushing to me from Dems and Never Trumpers unspent in this primary — it’s the war chest that will keep me relevant on the national stage. “Let me be the first to admit: I’ve sometimes been a fierce partisan in my day, sometimes to excess. More specifically, Cheney needs to signal that the loss of her Wyoming House seat in a GOP primary is in no way the end of her career, but the opening of a new phase in which she intends to be one of the most important people in American political life. I always wanted to barf when Hillary Clinton did her whole “let me say this to those girls and young women watching out there” thing. “First of all, to all my friends in Wyoming and around the country, let me assure you I made peace with this moment long ago. For anyone wondering about my own future, let me say this: I will do everything in my power to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office.” While she’s hoping for a miracle, she’s dropped enough clues lately about her state of mind that it is not hard to compose a suitable concession speech on her behalf. A few days from now, she will deliver the most consequential speech of her career to date.

The nearly two-and-a-half-minute ad appeared aimed as much at a national audience as at voters in Wyoming, where she is badly trailing her primary opponent.

House Republicans later ousted Ms. Cheney as the party’s No. 3 leader in the chamber, replacing her with Representative Elise Stefanik, a Trump loyalist from New York. “History has shown us over and over again how these types of poisonous lies destroy free nations,” Ms. Cheney said of those insisting that Mr. Trump won the election. Last week, Ms. Hageman repeated Mr. Trump’s false claim that the election was rigged. “The lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious,” Ms. Cheney said as the ad opens. Ms. Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 committee, has acknowledged her political peril. She is the last of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Mr. Trump’s impeachment to stand before voters in a primary this year. Ms. Cheney’s renunciation of Mr. Trump — and her vote to impeach him last year — have already come at a political price. - Arizona Governor’s Race: Like other hard-right candidates this year, Kari Lake won her G.O.P. primary by running on election lies. Ms. Cheney did not mention Ms. Hageman by name in her ad, but drew a comparison between her opponents in Wyoming and election-denying candidates across the nation. A poll released on Thursday by the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center showed Ms. Cheney trailing Ms. Hageman by nearly 30 points. “It preys on those who love their country. Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming is highlighting her role as the top Republican on the Jan. 6 committee in a closing ad for her all but doomed re-election campaign, as polls show her badly trailing her Trump-backed opponent, Harriet Hageman, just five days before the primary.

Far and away Mr. Trump's biggest political target is in his crosshairs next week. That would be his archnemesis, Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican, ...

But Ms. Cheney’s vitriol has been indistinguishable from that of the seven leftist Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee. The panel makes no pretense whatsoever to fairness, balance and objectivity, and gives kangaroo courts a bad name. If polls are to be believed, the three-term Ms. Cheney, 56, faces a crushing, humiliating defeat in Wyoming’s Republican primary on Aug. 16 — and deservedly so. For that, she has been lionized by the Trump-hating liberal mainstream media. They can now commiserate with five-term Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina, who was crushed by better than 2-to-1 in his June 14 GOP primary. Ms. Cheney’s all-but-certain defeat will be the coup de grace to a once-sky’s-the-limit political career that has been in a death spiral — one of her own making — since first being deposed in May 2021 as chair of the House Republican Caucus, the third-ranking party post in the lower chamber, and then being censured in February by the Republican National Committee.

All signs are pointing to a staggering loss in Tuesday's primary for the Wyoming Republican who co-chairs the Jan. 6 House select committee hearings.

Hageman said the election was “rigged” but has not focused on election denialism as a centerpiece of her campaign. There’s anecdotal evidence it could help Cheney somewhat, but not enough to significantly alter the outcome of the race in her favor. “It is a cancer that threatens our great republic.” She focuses an awful lot of time on the Jan. 6 committee, but she’s not addressing the issues that are important to Wyoming,” Hageman said during a debate last month, when Cheney in turn pressed her on whether she thinks the election was stolen. The visibility of this race has made it so that people are really set.” “People already had their minds made up,” he told HuffPost. “Her votes on election certification and then impeachment in January of 2021, those were the things that started the opposition rolling. “She knew what the risks were when she came out and opposed the president,” Mike Madrid, a Republican co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, told HuffPost. “Whether she thought for a short period of time that she could win a primary back home? In a profile that acknowledges the reality of Cheney’s impending loss, The New York Times reported that the Wyoming Republican is sticking to invite-only events at people’s homes — with a security detail to ensure her safety against a stream of threats. “The lie that the 2020 election was stolen is insidious. “America cannot remain free if we abandon the truth,” Cheney says in her campaign’s closing ad, over the swelling of orchestral music. Another poll predicted a similar blowout for Hageman, leaving little doubt that Cheney is on the path to defeat. But it’s no secret — and it hasn’t been for a long time — that that’s not going to happen.”