US-elect Liz Cheney, spokeswoman for the anti-Trump Republicans, suffered a landslide defeat Tuesday in her primaries in Wyoming, in the center-west of the country, cementing the influence of the former president on her left.
The 56-year-old parliamentarian has been one of the Republican billionaire’s main annoyances since he dared to join the parliamentary committee investigating his role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He had put all his weight behind his rival Harriet . Hageman, a 59-year-old lawyer with whom he campaigned at the end of May, wins this Tuesday in these Republican primaries.
Therefore, the Republican nomination in the elections for the House of Representatives will fall to Donald Trump’s protégé, further strengthening the control of the former White House tenant in the Republican Party, despite the numerous investigations to which he is subject. . As if, by dint of accumulation, all these matters no longer had control over him.
In Wyoming, a state that voted more than 70% for Donald Trump in the last presidential election, candidate Harriet Hageman is remarkably supportive of the theory put forward by the Trump clan that the 2020 election was “stolen” from the former president, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. .
He promises to “do everything” so that Trump will never be president again
For her part, Liz Cheney, who voted for the impeachment of which Donald Trump finally escaped, has spent more than a year trying to dismantle this thesis to which millions of Trumpists still adhere.
Since investigating Donald Trump and his entourage, the elected official has been the target of a series of death threats and no longer travels without a police escort. In her state, the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869, the elected official had been forced to lead a kind of ghost campaign, without electoral rallies or public events.
Rumors now lend his presidential ambitions to the 2024 election, in which he could run as an independent if need be. After the announcement of her defeat by various US media, Liz Cheney promised to “do everything” so that Trump will never be president again.
Source: BFM TV
