The vice president of the January 6 Commission, in favor of impeaching the former president, loses her seat to Harriet Hageman and confirms the tycoon’s ‘revenge’ against his critics within the party
The Republican candidate Liz Cheney has suffered a wide defeat in her party’s primaries to dispute the seat for Wyoming in the elections to the US House of Representatives next November. The predictions have come true. Cheney will not attend these elections and she will have to leave her seat in the next legislature. The most staunch conservatives do not forgive, not even one of their most prominent representatives, the daughter of a family that became vice president with George W. Bush in 2001. The votes have gone to her rival, Harriet Hageman, who was running for the primaries with the backing of Donald Trump.
The former president thus consumes his greatest ‘revenge’ against those within the party who have not supported his crusade to annul Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the November 2020 presidential elections or have made his behavior ugly during the riots that ended with the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. Cheney, precisely, led the public reproaches to Trump in those weeks, which led to a harsh confrontation with the tycoon and the separation as ‘number three’ of the Republicans in the House. She today occupies the vice presidency of the congressional commission that investigates the insurrection and is in favor of accusing the former president for his alleged responsibility in the greatest blow to democracy in the contemporary history of the United States.
In previous primaries, Cheney won the support of 73% of Wyoming voters. Last night she has remained at 29%, compared to 67% of the ballots harvested by Hageman. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has explained that she “could easily have done the same thing again. The path was clear.” But, nevertheless, she has preferred to “defend the truth” and reject “President Trump’s lie about the 2020 elections.” “No seat in the House, no position on this earth, is more important than the principles that we have all sworn to protect,” she declared after confessing to herself as a “republican” convinced.
Harriet Hageman takes the stage to address the conservatives after confirming her victory /
Cheney has barely been able to weave a coherent campaign for the seat. At the start of the primaries he received anonymous death threats from extremist elements, which has forced him to suspend numerous public events. However, he has constantly invited independents and Democrats who agree with his ideas to register as Republicans to give him their vote in the state. But the shadow of Trumpism has been longer.
The defeat closes the cycle of sudden exits that will be seen in Congress by the few Republicans who have spoken out in favor of denouncing the former president for his electoral rigging lies. Most will be displaced by the emerging group of Trumpist politicians who have won by a landslide in their respective demarcations during these primaries.
This trend is most likely set in Alaska. The party has replaced the traditional primaries in this state with an open system in which there is no winner and loser, but rather the four most voted candidates will make up the ballot for the Senate in the intermediate elections in November; An appointment in which the Americans will elect a third of the senators and the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. According to the latest projections, the two Trump-backed hopefuls in Alaska, Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka, have passed the filter. Former Governor Sarah Palin has also garnered notable approval in what her return to the political front lines means.
The Wyoming result shows not only the prevalence of those who have supported Trump’s false electoral fraud theories, but also a profound ideological and generational change within Republicanism. Fifteen years ago the punishment given to the descendant of a family clan with a large role in US politics would have been unthinkable. The defeat also represents the triumph of partisanship over history by highlighting how quickly new supporters forget former party figures such as former President Bush.
Loyalty to Trump is now trading higher. Hageman, also a descendant of a political family, is little known outside her state. In 2018, she lost the gubernatorial election and has also been unsuccessful in previous conservative primaries. At the last convention, Hageman offered her endorsement of Liz Cheney. But her words in recent weeks say it all: “We are fed up with the January 6 Commission.”
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Beyond the setback, experts believe that the loss of the seat will open a new political stage for Cheney. Nobody rules out that his next plans are to lead a national movement to run for the 2024 presidential elections, occupying an intermediate space between the trumpists and Joe Biden: attractive to those who deny the Republican tycoon and those who do not consider the next president of The United States is over 80 years old in the event that the current tenant of the White House revalidates the position. To do this, he could resort to the same formula that he has used in these primaries: call on the moderate Republicans, the independents and the Democrats closest to his politics who are eager to block Trump’s path.
“Now the real work begins,” the vice president of the January 6 Commission said from Jackson. Cheney claims that she will do “whatever it takes to ensure that Trump is never near the Oval Office again.” In her opinion, American democracy “is not guaranteed” and, thus, she considers the threats received by the FBI from extremist elements after the search of Trump’s house in Mar-a-Lago “totally predictable.” “Our nation is hurtling once again into crisis, anarchy and violence. No American should support those who deny elections for any position of genuine responsibility ยป, she concluded her speech, with the background song of Tom Petty ‘I Wo n’t Back Down’.
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