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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump�s
fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, soundly lost a GOP
primary, soundly lost a GOP primary, falling to a rival backed
by the former president in a rout that reinforced his grip on
the party�s base.

The third-term congresswoman and her allies entered the day
downbeat about her prospects, aware that Trump�s backing gave
Harriet Hageman considerable lift in the state where he won by
the largest margin during the 2020 campaign. Cheney was already
looking ahead to a political future beyond Capitol Hill that
could include a 2024 presidential run, potentially putting her
on another collision course with Trump.

On Wednesday, calling Trump "a very grave threat and risk to our
republic," she told NBC that she thinks that defeating him will
require "a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and
independents � and that�s what I intend to be part of." She
declined to say if she would run for president but conceded it�s
"something that I�m thinking about."

Cheney described her primary loss on Tuesday night as the
beginning of a new chapter in her political career as she
addressed a small collection of supporters, including her
father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, on the edge of a vast
field flanked by mountains and bales of hay.

"Our work is far from over," she said, evoking Abraham Lincoln,
who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the
presidency and preserving the union.

The primary results � and the roughly 30-point margin � were a
powerful reminder of the GOP�s rapid shift to the right. A party
once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly
conservatives like her father now belongs to Trump, animated by
his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the
2020 election.

Such lies, which have been roundly rejected by federal and state
election officials along with Trump�s own attorney general and
judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional
critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the
GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms.
She's the top Republican on the House panel investigating the
Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump
supporters, an attack she referenced in nodding to her political
future.

"I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to
ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office
� and I mean it," she said Tuesday.

Four hundred miles (645 kilometers) to the east of Cheney�s
concession speech, festive Hageman supporters gathered at a
sprawling outdoor rodeo and Western culture festival in
Cheyenne, many wearing cowboy boots, hats and blue jeans.

"Obviously we�re all very grateful to President Trump, who
recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional
representative and we have to make it count," said Hageman, a
ranching industry attorney who had finished third in a previous
bid for governor.

Echoing Trump�s conspiracy theories, she falsely claimed the
2020 election was "rigged" as she courted his loyalists in the
runup to the election.

Trump and his team celebrated Cheney�s loss, which may represent
his biggest political victory in a primary season full of them.
The former president called the results "a complete rebuke" of
the Jan. 6 committee.

"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and
her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,"
he wrote on his social media platform. "Now she can finally
disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am
sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you
WYOMING!"

The news offered a welcome break from Trump's focus on his
growing legal entanglements. Just eight days earlier, federal
agents executing a search warrant recovered 11 sets of
classified records from the former president�s Florida estate.

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.

Cheney will now be forced from Congress at the end of her third
and final term in January. She is not expected to leave Capitol
Hill quietly.

She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional
panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack until it dissolves at the
end of the year. And she is actively considering a 2024 White
House bid -- as a Republican or independent -- having vowed to
do everything in her power to fight Trump�s influence in her
party.

With Cheney�s loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are
going extinct.

In all, seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House
members backed Trump�s impeachment in the days after his
supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress tried to certify
President Joe Biden�s victory. Just two of those 10 House
members have won their primaries this year. After two Senate
retirements, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only such
Senate Republican on this year�s ballot.

Cheney was forced to seek assistance from the state�s tiny
Democratic minority in her bid to pull off a victory. But
Democrats across America, major donors among them, took notice.
She raised at least $15 million for her election, a stunning
figure for a Wyoming political contest.

Voters responded to the interest in the race. With a little more
than half of the vote counted, turnout ran about 50% higher than
in the 2018 Republican primary for governor.

If Cheney does ultimately run for president � either as a
Republican or an independent � don�t expect her to win Wyoming�s
three electoral votes.

"We like Trump. She tried to impeach Trump," Cheyenne voter
Chester Barkell said of Cheney on Tuesday. "I don�t trust Liz
Cheney."

And in Jackson, Republican voter Dan Winder said he felt
betrayed by his congresswoman.

"Over 70% of the state of Wyoming voted Republican in the last
presidential election and she turned right around and voted
against us," said Winder, a hotel manager. "She was our
representative, not her own."

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