Trump has made ending Cheney\u0027s congressional career a priority among the 10 House Republicans targeted for supporting his impeachment in 2021
Cheney’s defeat by Harriet Hageman marks a significant victory for the former president in his campaign to oust Republicans who backed impeaching him after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building last year.
Cheney’s defeat would have been unthinkable just two years ago. The daughter of a former vice president, she hails from one of the most prominent political families in Wyoming. And in Washington, she was the No. 3 House Republican, an influential voice in GOP politics and policy with a sterling conservative voting record.Article content
With 58% of the expected ballots counted, Hageman led the Republican field with 62.4% of the vote, followed by Cheney with 33.5% and state lawmaker Anthony Bouchard with 2.4% according to Edison Research.Article content Hageman, a natural resources lawyer who has embraced Trump’s election lies, criticized Cheney’s concession speech, saying it showed she cared little about the issues facing her state.
Of the 10 Republicans who supported impeachment, it is possible that only one – Dan Newhouse of Washington — will be in Congress after November’s general election, according to J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
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