Wyoming is the most pro-Trump state in the country. And respected Republican Liz Cheney is about to find out what that means.
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“The people of Wyoming are going to tell Liz Cheney ‘You’re fired, get the hell out of here, get out of here’”, says the former president.
Ms Cheney, who represents Wyoming in Congress, is the embodiment of the Republican establishment. The daughter of the former US vice-president Dick Cheney, she rose to be the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress and is famously conservative.
Despite consistently backing Trump in office, she’s now one of his staunchest critics, attacking him for refusing to concede defeat in the 2020 election and for his actions on January 6.
“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone but your dishonour will remain.”
As she seeks her party’s nomination for a 4th term in Congress, Donald Trump is going all out to stop her, endorsing and campaigning for another candidate who’s also switched sides.
Harriet Hageman was a “Never Trumper” who tried to stop his run for the presidency in 2016. Now she enjoys his support and campaigns on his record. And the polls show its working.
Cheney’s stance on Trump has divided Republicans in Wyoming, angering many, leading to death threats.
“It’s a battle between the Trump Republican Party and the Republican Party of the past”, says Mary Kay Turner, a Cheney family friend. “It’s dividing the community terribly.”
Former Washington bureau chief Kathryn Diss travels through the vast and spectacular wilderness of the Cowboy State to talk with locals about the upcoming primary elections.
Many feel Cheney’s role in the January 6 hearings has distracted her from local issues.
“She’s been focused completely on the January 6th commission when people here are worried about the price of food at the grocery store, the price of gas at the gas pump”, says state politician Cheri Steinmetz.
“Most of her time is being spent trying to convict Donald Trump.”
But loyalists support her principled stand.
“I would be so sorry to see someone like Liz Cheney lose because it’s more than Liz Cheney that loses. We lose a lot of Republicans like her…that care a great deal for our country’, says Mary Kay Turner.
Diss also heads to Washington to speak with leading Democrat congressman Jamie Raskin who’s sitting alongside Liz Cheney on the January 6 Committee.
He says the stakes for the US couldn’t be higher.
“I want to make sure that American democracy survives and that proposition is at odds with Donald Trump ever getting anywhere near the White House.”
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These people are scary. They don't even see their racism and blindness towards the "well-meaning" riot vs any protest supporting Black Americans. They see all the protests as riots when it clearly was not. Any person who was at a protest or gets their information from anywhere else besides Fox news can see that. This is terrifying that these people are this clueless. It's so obvious to me now how someoen like Hitler got into power. It's the ignorance like this that did it. They don't realize what they are enabling until they come for them too.
Not really journalism…….more of a puff piece
Anyone who votes for the leader's moral will not vote for long. I learned long ago that policy drives my votes. Biden might appear like an honest guy, but his policies are hurting many of us. I'll prefer a dishonest guy who has good policies.
January 6 was a riot
Am I fed up with the corrupt Republican party and Democrats? Absolutely.. but to replace corrupt with a corrupt Trump is well 🤪🥴🥺 . He uses this anger to just replace another group that is equally corrupt. False prophet .
Liz needs to change her party to Dem party. She is a RINO
Trumpers will win.
A civil war is imminent
One prez to another. A joke in my opinion
The Demo-rats are afraid of Trump, they are looking for a reason to stop him…Liz Cheney is not receiving death threats from Republicans, but from her own Demo-rats and Rhinos Republicans friends crooked law makers .
And not from honorable Republicans and Respectable Americans…
With morals..
Victory! to President Donald J Trump
Victory!, to 🇺🇸 America
Victory!, to the 🌎 World ..
Victory! To us all.
Cape Town….South Africa.
3:57 This person saying tRump's policies were good for the country and "he's a businessman." No, tRump is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a racist and a whole of other negatives. Just about every business he has been in has FAILED. From New Yorker magazine: “Some fraction of Donald Trump’s losses can be attributed to depreciation,” Susanne Craig, one of the authors of the Times piece, wrote in a tweet, responding to Trump. “We found most of it was just bad business.”
Bless her Liz is doing the right thing. DT will be gone soon enough. It's so ridiculous you have one lady who hated Trump but now since DT doesn't have a relationship with Liz, Harriet now Conveniently loves DT true definition of front running. And the other one had a relationship but when she found out he was losing his mind she decided to have the strong courage to go against him. What a mess.
I visited Wyoming and I love it. It is a beautiful country with nice, sincere,happy people. Liz Cheney has the right to have her opinion but devoting all her attention to convicting Trump instead of doing her work which is representing the people of Wyoming is wrong, that is why the people of Wyoming fired her .
Hehehe and shes gone bye bye 🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩👏👏👏👏 No more RINOS she stand up for lies and used by demoncrats😏No more political families
You gave of your self for a democracy and I applaud you.
Liz was one of of the most amazing politicans in histroy because she stood up for
what was right knowing that her party whould turn against her
“Republican royalty”
🤣 What world do you live in.
its about dammm time they got rid of you ,just like your useless father …….
You are not President anymore Trump!!!!
Some one has to protect the Construction.
That's " representing the entire country".
Bye bye Liz . Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Liz Cheney has a lots of guts to FIGHT lunatic trump and his cronies period! He is not fit to be allowed to be reelected he is criminal cannot hold office again period he cannot be trusted vote BLUE!
We have seen our country going down the drain ever since Barak HUSSEIN obama
became an illegally elected president TWICE using the DOMINION voting machines.
Jan 6th is on the beginning
as an Australian myself find it so hard to believe what the American society has lowered itself beyond belief…..power corruption cannot wish to express any further
I hope Candidate Hageman realizes she’s selling her soul to the devil, Trump may support you now but the bill will come due the first time you disagree with him.
Law and Order but okay with attacks on the Capital. The hypocrisy.