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Liz Cheney has been steadily plummeting. The Raging Patriot reported recently that that a conservative organization dedicated to ousting GOP Rep. Liz Cheney has launched a billboard campaign throughout Wyoming to promote her primary challenger, attorney Harriet Hageman. The billboards by the group Wyoming Values PAC urge voters to “Ditch Liz! Vote for Hageman,” and have been placed in some of the state’s more heavily populated areas including the cities of Casper, Rawlins, Cheyenne, and Laramie. Led by GOP strategists Andy Surabian and James Blair, the organization is planning to leave the billboards up until Aug. 16, when the primary election is held, Breitbart News reported. “Wyoming Values will continue to aggressively expose Liz Cheney as the Pelosi puppet she truly is from now until election day,” Surabian said in a statement. “While Liz Cheney sold Wyoming out to the swamp, Harriet Hageman will fight for the conservative values [Wyoming residents] care about and we’re confident that she will defeat Cheney in August,” he noted further.
Now, ConservativeBrief is reporting that
Cheney’s bid to retain her seat in Wyoming is increasingly being seen as a bridge too far.
A new survey finds that she remains significantly behind her GOP primary opponent Harriet Hageman, who earned former President Donald Trump’s backing last fall.
“A total of 52% of likely primary voters in the state said they supported Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, with only 30% showing support for Cheney, according to a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey conducted on behalf of the Casper, Wyoming, Star Tribune,” The Daily Wire reported, citing the poll which was released on Friday.
The report continues:
The poll, conducted July 7-11 among 1,100 likely voters, showed 11% undecideds, with no other candidate reaching double digits in support. Republican state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, the next highest-ranking candidate, received 5% support.
The race between Cheney and Hageman has been receiving national attention for months, but the survey marked “the first independent, public, in-state poll” conducted so far. Early voting has already begun, with the primary set for August 16.
If this latest survey holds up — and it matches previous surveys that also showed Cheney down to Hageman by double digits — it’s not likely that the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney will remain in office past this current term, which ends in early January 2022.
As such, Hageman would then face likely Democratic candidate Lynnette Grey Bull, Constitution Party candidate Marrisa Selvig, and Independent Casey Hardison.
But Wyoming is deep-red, so it’s more likely Hageman would become the state’s lone representative following the November midterm election.
Cheney angered the former president when she became one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach him a second time following the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. She further angered Trump, while alienating most others in her party, when she agreed to serve as co-chair of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked committee to look into the incident, a panel that has been blamed for engaging in rank partisanship.
Earlier this month, Cheney became furious with the committee’s decision not to make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for former President Donald Trump.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), was asked by a reporter if the committee would be sending criminal referrals for the former president or others and he responded by saying the committee does not have that authority, CNN reported.
“No, you know, we’re going to tell the facts. If the Department of Justice looks at it and assumes that there’s something that needs further review, I’m sure they’ll do it,” he said.
He was asked again and explained “No, that’s not our job. Our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around January 6, what caused it, and make recommendations after that.”
