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Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is getting very desperate in her bid to keep her place in the House of Representatives.
She now has an endorsement from a very unlikely source.
On Monday, she shared an endorsement from actor Kevin Costner, who does not consider himself a Republican or a Democrat.
Cheney has historically voted and been very conservative for her whole career. However, people are very unhappy about the contempt she has for former President Donald Trump.
The Jan. 6 hearings have damaged her brand greatly, as of late.
Newsweek reported on Costner supporting Cheney:
Despite his endorsement of Cheney, Costner does not consider himself to be a Republican anymore. Earlier in his life, Costner was considered a Republican but has supported Democrats since the 1990s. In fact, he endorsed Pete Buttigieg, then the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and now the Secretary of Transportation, during the 2020 Democratic primary—later supporting President Joe Biden’s election campaign.
“I think we really have to have a president for both sides,” he said in an interview with Variety prior to the 2020 presidential election. “And for the people who don’t vote for Biden, if Biden wins it’s necessary that he address what they’re concerned about. I think he has that level of bandwidth to understand that the group that doesn’t vote for him needs attention. They have their own concerns and we have to think about that.”
“The Democratic Party doesn’t represent everything that I think, and neither does the Republican Party right now—at all. So, I find it too limiting,” he said to The Daily Beast in 2020.
People are raising concerns over Costner’s endorsement, though.
A picture is circulating that shows Costner meeting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
In April 2001 Costner and Castro “bonded” during a trip to Cuba. Costner was promoting his movie “Thirteen Days” about the Cuban Missles crisis.
“I shouldn’t be speaking for [Castro], but he responded to the film very favorably, and we had a very interesting discussion afterwards,” the actor’s spokesman, Stephen Rivers, said to Reuters. “Kevin was very appreciative of the amount of time the president gave us.”
A Twitter account shared this in response to Costner endorsing Cheney:
Cheney using a guy who fluffed Fidel Castro and wanted Michelle Obama to be president to promote herself is so on brand.
Despite Costner endorsing Cheney, she is up for a tough fight against Harriet Hageman in the primary race. Hageman has been endorsed by Trump.
Cheney made enemies with Trump after she refused to support his claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to violet fraud.
Many polls have found Cheney struggling to win a majority of support. A survey by the Casper Star-Tribune from July 7 to 11 found Hageman leading CHney by 22 points. Hageman held 52% of the support and Cheney only got 30% of the support.
Wyoming voters will decide between Cheney and Hageman on August 16.
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