Candidate for primaries for the mid-term elections, in November, the outgoing representative, standard bearer of the opposition to the former president in his party, failed to overcome the hostility of his camp .
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Democrats will not have managed to save Liz Cheney. By one of these unnatural alliances generated in the United States by the influence of Donald Trump in the primaries for the mid-term elections, in November, the non-republican voters of Wyoming were invited by the outgoing candidate, and opposition flag to the former president in his party, to temporarily change affiliation to help him overcome the hostility of his camp.
The calculation failed. The participation was higher than usual, suggesting that a certain number of defectors had joined the Republicans. But in such a conservative state, the least populated in the country, where the Democrats are four times less numerous than the Republicans, Harriet Hageman, the candidate defended by Donald Trump, had no trouble eliminating Liz Cheney, the daughter of Former vice-president Dick Cheney, elected since 2016 and re-elected in 2020 with 68 % of the vote.
Less than two hours after the closure of the ballot, the outgoing could only congratulate her rival, a lawyer specializing in disputes against environmental regulations, close to the Cheney family, but converted into Trump’s faithful For the ballot. In his speech, Liz Cheney said, however, that the former president had not finished finding her in his way. “The primary is finished; now, real work begins,” she said, calling “republicans, democrats, independent” to join her to prevent the former president from returning to business. “He knows that his lies will provoke violence, she accused. A new escalation of violence is to be expected.”
“Your dishonor will remain”
Former lawyer in the State Department under George W. Bush, former columnist at Verb Vive on Fox News, often a doctrinaire, Liz Cheney, 56, was number three of the Republican Party until his repudiation, in May 2021, by the staff for voting for the dismissal of Donald Trump, after the events of January 6 at the Capitol. Having become the face of the resistance to Trump and her attempt to deny the victory of Joe Biden, she had accepted the proposal of Nancy Pelosi, one of the most hated figures by the Republicans, to take the vice-president of the Commission investigation into the insurrection. The Trumpists had mobilized against her. The dissident had challenged them with the gaze of history. “To my republican friends who defend the indefensible, there will be one day when Trump will be leaving but your dishonor will stay.”