Liz Cheney loses her place in Congress – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

This is shown by the forecasts of the US TV channels after a sufficient number of votes have been counted. Instead, the 59-year-old lawyer Harriet Hageman, who has ex-president Donald Trump’s full support, will be the Republicans’ candidate in the autumn election. It is almost certain that she will become Wyoming’s only member of the House of Representatives, since the deeply Republican state gave Trump over 70 percent in the 2020 election. With 18 percent of the vote, Hageman had 65 percent, while Cheney had 30 percent of the vote. Harriet Hageman will be the Republicans’ candidate from Wyoming. Here is now on the scene tonight in Cheyenne. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Angriest critic Cheney is Trump’s angriest Republican critic in Congress. She was among ten congressional representatives who voted for Trump’s impeachment, and is now deputy head of the committee that investigated Trump’s role in the storming of Congress on 6 January last year. Cheney, who does not expect to win, promises to do everything she can to prevent Trump from being re-elected. – I have said since January 6 that I will do everything I can to ensure that Donald Trump is never again in the vicinity of the Oval Office, and I mean it, she said when the loss was a fact. Cheney called the loss the start of a new career, and there is speculation whether he plans to run for president in two years, either as a Republican or as an independent. Republican voters celebrate in Cheyenne, Wyoming after casting their vote for Harriet Hageman. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Far to the far right The outcome of the election is another reminder of how far to the far right the Republican Party has moved under Trump. The party that was formerly characterized by business-friendly conservatives such as Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney and the Bush family, is now “owned” by the right-wing populist Trump who inspires his supporters with the false claim that he won and Joe Biden lost the 2020 presidential election. Hageman , who won the election in Wyoming, also claimed that the 2020 election was “fixed” when she campaigned among the Republicans. They believe that Cheney failed them with his criticism of Trump.



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