There’s a chance you’ll see another Cheney in the nation’s Capitol.
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After a hotly-contested primary, Liz Cheney secured the Republican nomination for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat by a landslide.
“No state has been hurt more by Barack Obama’s agenda over the past seven-and-a-half years than Wyoming”, said Cheney.
They will try to win Rep. Cynthia Lummis’s seat, who has decided not to seek a fifth term in Congress.
This isn’t Cheney’s first bid for federal office.
Her victory marks a turnaround from what turned out to be a disastrous Senate campaign in 2014, when she launched a primary challenge against popular incumbent Sen. She briefly ran against Republican Sen.
She will have a Democratic opponent, Ryan Greene, who won his party’s nomination Tuesday, but in overwhelmingly red Wyoming, his path to victory is hard, to say the least.
Cheney is emphasizing in her current campaign that she wants to represent Wyoming to fight against Washington overreach, particularly against federal regulation of the state’s sagging coal industry. State Sen. Leland Christensen, who scored a late endorsement from Sen.
Patricia Moran, of Cheyenne, said Tuesday, however, that she voted for Liz Cheney.
“I look forward very much to moving forward in the general election, unified and focused on making sure we send the strongest conservative voice to Washington”, she said after learning of her primary victory, as reported by the local daily Casper Star Tribune. It didn’t work; they were more distracted by the fact that she had few apparent actual ties to Wyoming.
The primary that Liz Cheney won was the most competitive in the last 100 years in Wyoming, with nine candidates, but she managed to garner at least 40 percent of the vote and will go up against Democrat Ryan Greene in the November election. He also posted a video to his social media accounts urging people to vote for Christensen.
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Liz Cheney pledged in statement after her win to “defend our constitutional rights and our way of life”. This caused her to drop out nearly immediately. Mike Enzi. Many prominent Wyoming Republicans accused her of being a “carpetbagger” for running against the state’s senior senator when she had only recently moved to Wyoming from Virginia. “The Wyoming voters made a choice and we’ve got to respect that”.
