Liz Cheney won the Republican primary election for Wyoming’s sole House seat on Tuesday night, all but ensuring that she will occupy the seat once held by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as he rose to national prominence.
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Leland Christiansen was a distant second in the statewide voting, with State Representative Tim Stubson running third all night.
Wyoming is a reliably red state, with the Republican primary victor all but assured of a general election victory in November.
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“Wyoming is being challenged with some real heavy-handed federal government and depending on what happens with the Presidential [race], we need Congress to be strong”, he said.
Other GOP candidates include State Sen.
In that primary and this one, much of the criticism from her opponents focused on the fact that Cheney had not lived in Wyoming since she was a child.
The Democratic Party primary contest sees Charlie Hardy, a retired Roman Catholic priest, facing Ryan Greene, an oilfield services executive from Rock Springs. Mike Enzi. She ultimately withdrew from the race, citing “serious health issues” in her family.
Paul called Christensen on Sunday to tell him that he was being endorsed as the “main alternative to Liz Cheney” and did interviews with Politico and the Washington Post in which he bashed the policies of her father.
Liz Cheney is the best-funded candidate in the Republican field, bringing in more than $1.5 million through July.
Liz Cheney pledged in statement after her win to “defend our constitutional rights and our way of life”.
Liz Cheney’s opponents, meanwhile, have emphasized that she, a former Fox News commentator and State Department official, has comparatively shallow roots in Wyoming.
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Dick Cheney was elected five times to the U.S. House seat for Wyoming that his daughter is now seeking. Many Democrats have decried Cheney’s orchestration of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, calling it a disastrous foreign policy decision.
