Liz Cheney ally says primary challenge by Trump-backed candidate will be the 'bloodiest' race in Wyoming history



An ally to Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said that her primary fight against a challenger backed by former President Donald Trump will be the "bloodiest" race in Wyoming history.

The comments were made by Wyoming state Rep. Landon Brown (R) in reference to Cheney's controversial presence on the congressional committee investigating the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. 2021.

“I certainly think that’s gonna hurt her, especially here in Wyoming where you've got an extremely conservative base,” said Brown.

“I think this will probably be the bloodiest race in Wyoming's history," he added.

The Jan. 6 committee has been aggressively seeking documents and testimony from dozens of former Trump administration members and others associated with the former president. They sought and obtained phone records from Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancée to Donald Trump Jr., while also calling on Ivanka Trump to voluntarily testify before the committee on Thursday.

Cheney has been a vocal and outspoken critic of Trump, who responded by backing attorney Harriet Hageman's campaign to seize the Republican nomination from Cheney.

Former Campbell County Commissioner Mark Christensen agreed that the primary election would likely be a bitter fight.

“I think that the race itself will be really ugly,” said Christensen. “I would say probably in the next month or two we're going to see things get much more aggressive out here.”

Despite admitting that the race will be difficult one for Cheney, Brown said he still believes she has the edge over her pro-Trump competitor.

“It's going to be an ugly fight,” said Brown. “But I do think that it's going to be a fight worth watching, because it's going to show the rest of this country what it's going to look like in another two years when we go to have a presidential race.”

The primary election for Wyoming's singular seat in the U.S. House will be decided in August.

Here's more about Cheney on the Jan. 6 committee:

Rep. Liz Cheney Reads January 6th Texts from Fox News Hosts to Mark Meadowswww.youtube.com

Republicans vote to keep Liz Cheney in House leadership after heated debate over her impeachment vote against Trump



Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming survived a campaign by allies of former President Donald Trump to expel her from GOP leadership after she voted with Democrats to impeach him after the riots at the Capitol on January 6th.

House Republicans voted in a secret ballot to keep Cheney in her position as Republican Conference chair on Wednesday evening. 145 members voted to keep her in leadership while only 61 voted to kick her out.

Cheney is the third highest ranking Republican in the House, but she has faced heated opposition from some House Republicans after she voted with nine other Republicans to impeach Trump in January. Democrats accused the former president of inciting his followers to attack the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from confirming the official election results.

Cheney is said to have refused to apologize for her impeachment vote during the debate over her future.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Wednesday that he defended Cheney and her position in the leadership.

"People can have differences of opinion that we can have a discussions about," said McCarthy. "Liz has the right to vote her conscience. At the end of the day, we'll get united."

Among those most opposed to Cheney is Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida who flew to her home state in order to speak at a rally calling for her ouster. A few hundred showed up to hear Gaetz call Cheney a "beltway bureaucrat turned fake cow girl."

Despite defeating the pro-Trump uprising, Cheney may face an uphill battle in Wyoming if she seeks re-election. Politico reported that the atmosphere among Wyoming voters was decidedly anti-Cheney and many felt that her impeachment vote was a betrayal of her constituents.

Here's more about the campaign to dethrone Liz Cheney:

Liz Cheney survives push to strip her of GOP leadership positionwww.youtube.com

'This is a crusade for Trump now': Reporter stunned by the anger she saw against Liz Cheney in Wyoming



A reporter covering the in-fighting between the pro-Trump wing of the Republican Party and those in support of Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) was stunned to find the lack of support for Cheney and instead a lot of anger among Wyoming residents.

Politico reporter Tara Palmeri went to Wyoming to see the response to an anti-Cheney rally on Thursday in Cheyenne by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a supporter of former President Donald Trump.

"I think that they see themselves now on a crusade for Donald Trump," Palmeri said in an interview Friday on MSNBC.

"Donald Trump is way more popular than she is from the people I spoke to, and I actually went out of my way to try to find someone who would defend her, and I couldn't," she added.

Palmeri said that she talked to many people at the rally with Gaetz, but also went out and spoke to others in the community. She found the same message over and over.

"What I heard overwhelmingly from the people that were against her, she did not vote for Wyoming when she voted to impeach, and therefore she has to go," Palmeri said.

Cheney, the No. 3-ranked Republican in the House, was among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump for a second time after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to stop Congress from confirming the official election results. She has since been the target of criticism from supporters and allies of Trump.

"She didn't have that much name recognition, considering she's a Cheney, like, a lot of people thought she was a Senator or a mayor, and they weren't willing to go out in a primary and vote for her, and the problem is that the people who said they were going to go out and vote for her, were very vehemently against her, and these were the Trump voters' base," said Palmeri.

"I mean, I said her name in a hardware store, and someone shouted a threat," Palmeri added. On her social media account, she said that the threat uttered had been, "hang her."

Palmeri also said that some people refused to talk to her while she wore a mask, and she was very upset that she might have caught the coronavirus because she had to take her mask off with Wyoming residents.

"I might have COVID, for all I know. I dunno. It's crazy," she said.

Palmeri said Cheney needs to get out in her district because "this is a crusade for Trump now."

She went on to say that the residents were repeating talking points from the QAnon conspiracy theory as if they were "gospel," and that this was a bad sign for Cheney's chances in the primary election in 2022.

"If the primary were in 2021, she'd be in a lot of trouble," she concluded.

Here's the emotional interview with Palmeri:

Politico Reporter Shares Her Experience Covering An Anti-Liz Cheney Rally | Deadline | MSNBCwww.youtube.com

​McConnell backs Liz Cheney as pro-Trump forces continue campaign to expel her from GOP leadership​



Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell backed Sen. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as supporters of former President Donald Trump continued their campaign to expel her from GOP leadership for voting in favor of his second impeachment.

"Liz Cheney is a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them," McConnell said in a statement Monday to CNN.

"She is an important leader in our party and in our nation," he added. "I am grateful for her service and look forward to continuing to work with her on the crucial issues facing our nation."

Cheney was among the 10 Republicans who voted for the impeachment of former President Trump at the end of his term for incitement of insurrection. Democrats accused Trump of inciting the rioting at the U.S. Capitol that erupted when his supporters attempted to violently stop members of Congress from confirming the official results of the 2020 election.

Fervent allies of Trump have since excoriated Cheney and demanded her ouster from GOP leadership. Cheney is the third-highest ranking Republican.

The Republican Party of Wyoming voted unanimously to censure Cheney for her vote, and she has already drawn a primary challenge from a state lawmaker who accused her of out of touch with the will of the state's residents.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) held a small rally in Cheney's home state on Thursday to lambast her and encourage her constituents to vote against her in the next election. Gaetz referred to Cheney as a "beltway bureaucrat turned fake cow girl" to the hundreds of supporters who showed up.

Some Republicans, like Sen. Chip Roy of Texas and former President George W. Bush, have defended Cheney from her critics.

Cheney will face her primary challenger in the election next year.

Here's more about the pro-Trump campaign against Cheney:

Rep. Liz Cheney facing backlash over vote to impeach former President Trumpwww.youtube.com