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For some time now, Republican Liz Cheney has been the scourge of the right. Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant amount of blow back to her. We reported earlier this month that this manifested in a rude awakening for Cheney from her Wyoming voters. In general, it seems that Wyoming voters were unimpressed by Cheney’s involvement in the January 6th committee, on which she serves as a co-chair. In fact, a Wyoming resident was asked by CNN if she was planning to vote for Cheney. The woman simply said “Hell no!”.
Now, it is being reported by ConservativeBrief that:
Rep. Liz Cheney is drawing new heat from voters in her home state of Wyoming as she faces a tough reelection bid ahead of a contested GOP primary in which she is trailing.
Voters, in particular, lamented Cheney’s antics as co-chair of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, which she co-chairs and whose members were hand-selected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Are you planning to vote for Liz Cheney?” CNN’s Randi Kaye asked Wyoming voter Sharon Tuggle at the Frontier Days rodeo in Cheyenne, according to The Daily Wire.
“Hell no. She’s done us dirty,” Tuggle said, confirming to Kaye that Cheney lost her vote because of her part on the January 6th committee. “Look at how she’s done Trump.”
“She is supposed to be supporting him,” added Tuggle. “She is a Republican, for crying out loud.”
“Here in Cheyenne, more than 1600 miles from Washington, almost everyone we spoke with told us they believe Liz Cheney is too focused on Donald Trump and the January 6th committee and not paying enough attention to what they believe matters to the people here in Wyoming,” CNN noted in a tweet containing video clips of the network’s interviews with rodeo fans.
CNN: "Here in Cheyenne, more than 1600 miles from Washington, almost everyone we spoke with told us they believe Liz Cheney is too focused on Donald Trump and the January 6th committee and not paying enough attention to what they believe matters to the people here in Wyoming." pic.twitter.com/fpV63S8Mln
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) August 1, 2022
“Personally, I think she’s had three too many,” another voter told Kaye regarding Cheney’s bid for a fourth term.
Another voter claimed that Cheney’s work on the “January 6th committee just repulsive.”
“It’s all a hoax. It’s all propaganda. It has nothing to do with anything. It’s a witch hunt,” noted Wyoming voter Andrew Kahler to Kaye.
“She says she’s defending what’s important to people here in Wyoming, upholding the rule of law and defending the Constitution,” Kaye told voter Brett Kupec.
“If that was the rule of law, why doesn’t he have a defense team in that courtroom?” Kupec responded. “That ain’t a rule of law. That’s a kangaroo court. That’s not the Wyoming way.”
Another voter said Cheney is just “an embarrassment.”
Other voters accused the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney of being too out of touch with her state and its voters and overly focused on the Jan. 6 committee.
“She doesn’t know what her constituents want here anymore because she’s lost touch with the values of the people,” one man told Kaye.
“I don’t feel like she supports her people here in Wyoming anymore,” another woman offered. “The things that she’s voting for don’t really reflect what the people here in Wyoming feel.”
So, it just seems to be getting worse and worse for Liz Cheney. Again, none of this can be considered particularly surprising considering she has done everything in her power to alienate both her Republican peers and her voters. It is undoubtedly a major reason why, as we reported previously, a survey at the time found 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 around that time.
