JUST IN: Liz Cheney loses Wyoming primary to Trump-backed rival Harriet Hageman
on Tuesday became the highest-profile House Republican to lose their primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after voting to impeach the former president, according to the AP.Trump has made ousting the ten House Republicans who voted for impeachment one of his top priorities of the cycle – and Cheney, the vice chair of theThe race was called for Harriet Hageman – an attorney, former Republican National Committee member and 2018 gubernatorial candidate – shortly after the polls closed.
Hageman entered the race last September with Trump's endorsement, prompting several major candidates to drop out and endorse her.to what has been a whirlwind six-year congressional career for Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She was elected in 2016 and became chair of the House Republican Conference just two years later. A hawkish neoconservative, she criticized Trump's isolationist foreign policy but otherwise stayed mostly loyal to him.
That is until the Jan. 6 attack, after which Cheney voted to impeach Trump and began frequently denouncing him, leading to her removal as conference chair.
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