Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is preparing for a busy August in Washington, DC, away from the Wyoming campaign trail where she lags Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman by 30 points.
On Thursday, Cheney made clear during a committee hearing that the business of combatting Trump will continue even as Republican voters are ready to cast ballots in a few weeks. “We have considerably more to do. We have far more evidence to share with the American people, and more to gather,” Cheney said.
If Cheney loses the August 16 primary, she will remain a member of the committee until 2023, when the new members are sworn into Congress. That gives Cheney about four months to focus on the committee after the primary election.her hopes of retaining her seat, according to Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso . “The travel that I have done around the state, I think she has a lot of work to do if she hopes to win the primary,” he told Fox News.
“Wyoming politics is very personal,” Barrasso continued. “It’s face-to-face. It’s town to town, and as you know, Liz and I disagree. I voted against the impeachment of President Trump. She was for it. I voted against the partisan January 6 commission. She’s all in on that.” In February, Cheney expressed her own reasons for staying in Washington. “I’m not going to convince the crazies and I reject the crazies,” CheneyRep. Liz Cheney gets a thumbs up from former Sen. Joe Lieberman before the start of a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. in the polls. The polling data suggests Cheney’s alliance with Democrats on the partisan January 6 Committee is hurting Cheney’s reelection hopes.
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