The at-large district in Wyoming was once held by her father, Dick Cheney, for a decade, from 1979 to 1989.
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The open House seat representing Wyoming is being vacated by retiring Rep. Cynthia Lummis.
Cheney has avoided distractions like her 2013 public kerfuffle with her gay sister, Mary Cheney, over gay marriage, which Liz Cheney opposed, and the $220 ticket she got for fishing with a resident Wyoming license for which she didn’t qualify yet.
Many prominent Wyoming Republicans accused Liz Cheney two years ago of being a “carpetbagger” and criticized her for challenging GOP incumbent Enzi when she had only recently moved to Wyoming from Virginia.
Cheney raised far more money than any of her opponents in the race, bringing in a total of $1.5 million. State Senator Leland Christensen was running a distant second, with nearly 15,000 votes, while her six other Republican competitors each held fewer than 12,000 votes.
The state leans strongly Republican, increasing Cheney’s chances in November.
“When you get down to different types of campaigns, we had a budget-ran one, with a lot of shoe leather, and my opponent had a different style and a model, and a different budget in her race”, Christensen said.
In an interview with The Washington Post’s Paul Kane, Cheney spoke of herself as a “Liz Cheney Republican”, and refused to be identified as either a “Trump Republican” or “Dick Cheney Republican”. All this put together led her to end her campaign months ahead of the primary.
She has also co-written books with her father, including “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America”.
For the daughter of a vice president, Cheney’s rise to elected office hasn’t exactly been smooth. Our freedom is under assault from an out-of-control federal government and our security is under threat from radical Islamic terrorism.
The Democratic Party primary contest sees Charlie Hardy, a retired Roman Catholic priest, facing Ryan Greene, an oilfield services executive from Rock Springs.
Greene said Tuesday night he is “very excited about the way the results came in”.
“I’m honored by the trust Wyoming Republicans have placed in me to serve as our next Representative in Congress. The Cheneys are Washington”, Greene said.
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