NY Times reporter David Montgomery travel across the state asking people there what did they thing of their US House member….
Cheney has insisted that her sole focus is serving the people of Wyoming and protecting the democracy from Trumpism, not angling to ascend to the White House as potentially the moral leader of a post-Trump GOP. But there’s no question that her showdown with Trump has assumed dimensions far beyond a sleepy midterm reelection campaign in the country’s least-populated state.
Since entering the House in 2017, Cheney has never had a close primary or general election. She was embraced by the Republican establishment in D.C., and quickly rose to the No. 3 position of leadership in the GOP caucus, giving Wyoming outsize clout for such a small population. She was reelected in November with nearly 69 percent of the vote.
Her problems began when she cast doubt on Trump’s false claims that the election had been stolen. Cheney circulated a 21-page white paper highlighting the judicial decisions striking down fraud claims by Trump’s allies, and describing why the Constitution doesn’t allow Congress or the vice president to overrule certified state electoral votes.
On Jan. 6, Trump called out Cheney by name during his speech on the Ellipse. She was on the House floor when rioters broke into the Capitol. When leading Trump advocate Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio offered to help her from the aisle, she later recalled smacking his hand away and telling him, “Get away from me. You f—ing did this,” according to the book “I Alone Can Fix It” by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
Cheney went on to vote for Trump’s second impeachment in January (she had voted against the first impeachment, in 2019). She was ejected from the House leadership in May, but has since doubled and tripled down on her anti-Trump stance, taking a key role on the Democratic-led committee to investigate Jan. 6 and firing volley after gleeful volley at the former president. She tweeted in August that Trump “continues to use the same type of language he knows provoked violence in the past.” Five days later, she told the Commonwealth Club public affairs forum in San Francisco that Trump “continues to be an ongoing, clear and present danger to this democracy.”….
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Cheney’s conservatism is not in doubt; she is pro-gun, anti-abortion, pro-fossil fuels, pro-tax cuts, pro-defense spending, and voted with Trump 93 percent of the time. “If you look at it from a political philosophy standpoint, Liz Cheney is absolutely a conservative, right across the board,” says Matt Micheli, a former chairman of the Wyoming GOP who calls Cheney “a phenomenal representative for our state.” As he puts it, the question at stake in next year’s primary will be: “What is the future of the conservative movement in America? Is it one that’s styled after the Ronald Reagan brand of conservatism, or the more populist, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene brand of conservatism?”
I recently spent 10 days traveling 2,100 miles up and down the state, talking with more than 60 residents to see how Wyoming is processing this choice. Nearly everywhere I went, rage against Cheney erupted as regularly as a Yellowstone geyser. Support for her was harder to find, though equally passionate. But whatever side they are on, Wyoming voters draw their heat for this race from the same source: their knowledge that this is no ordinary political grudge match, but rather a test of the party’s future….
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Cheney Is not and never was a Senator.
For a guy who “claims” to know so much about politics?James exhibits either a total lack of knowledge or carelessness worthy of a seventh grader.
Notice not only does he refer to Cheney as a “Senator “ in the headline but in his introductory commentary he does it again, thus indicating that he either really believes she is or,as I have alluded to on numerous occasions,he just mindless bangs away at his keyboard in some weird stream of consciousness rambling that more often than not results in utter nonsense.
Wyoming’s Republican Senators (for those of us who’ve forgotten) are John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis.
By the way, Wyoming calls herself the Equality State for the very good reason that upon admission in 1890, it was one of the very few (maybe the first) states to allow women to vote and hold public office.
However, while she elected a female Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1890, she did not elect a female Senator or female Governor until Cynthia Lummis last year.
Rhode Island, in many ways the mirror image of Wyoming (in size, density and partisan alignment), had a similar record until Gina Raimondo (D) was elected Governor in 2014.
Thanks for the correction Z….
That’s what happens when u post toooo late in the evening….
My mistake corrected….
Late night makes you too sleepy to remember who Liz Cheney is?
Get another excuse Homer.
That has all the validity of tweet by Donald Trump.
We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.
By Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman
The New York Times opinion page
Oct. 11, 2021
After Donald Trump’s defeat, there was a measure of hope among Republicans who opposed him that control of the party would be up for grabs, and that conservative pragmatists could take it back. But it’s become obvious that political extremists maintain a viselike grip on the national and state parties and the process for fielding and championing House and Senate candidates in next year’s elections.
Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats.
This year we joined more than 150 conservatives — including former governors, senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, and party leaders — in calling for the Republican Party to divorce itself from Trumpism or else lose our support, perhaps with us forming a new political party. Rather than return to founding ideals, Republican leaders in the House and in many states have now turned belief in conspiracy theories and lies about stolen elections into a litmus test for membership and running for office.
Starting a new center-right party may prove to be the last resort if Trump-backed candidates continue to win Republican primaries. We and our allies have debated the option of starting a new party for months and will continue to explore its viability in the long run. Unfortunately, history is littered with examples of failed attempts at breaking the two-party system, and in most states today the laws do not lend themselves easily to the creation and success of third parties.
So for now, the best hope for the rational remnants of the Republican Party is for us to form an alliance with Democrats to defend American institutions, defeat far-right candidates, and elect honorable representatives next year — including a strong contingent of moderate Democrats…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html
“Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war.”
You wouldn’t know that from reading here.
Instead you hear about Trump fading away.
While they remain high
Trump’s approval numbers AMONG GOPer’s HAS DROPPED by double difits
Here?
It Has been spotlighted that sone Republicans are WORRIED about 2024 Trump wrecking ball campaign….
There are some of who think a Biden-Trump rerun IS Biden’s BEST case scenario for Nov 2024
Maybe not for the party
But yea for Biden
Schiff calls House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy an ‘insurrectionist in a suit and tie’
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 12:12 PM ET, Tue October 12, 2021
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” as he slammed the House Republican leader for having “absolutely no reverence for the truth.”
Schiff, a California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and sits on the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, told CNN’s John Berman that what “angered me the most” about the US Capitol attack were these “insurrectionists in suits and ties, who were still, even after the bloody insurrection, even after all the shattered glass and the death of that day, were back on the House floor trying to overturn the election.”
Asked if McCarthy is an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” Schiff replied, “Absolutely, absolutely.”
“Unlike those people climbing outside the building, they knew it was a lie. The true believers were out there attacking the building. But inside the chamber, my Republican colleagues know it is a big lie,” Schiff said of the false claims that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
He also accused the GOP leadership in Congress of being “deathly afraid of crossing” former President Donald Trump.
CNN has reached out to McCarthy’s office for comment….
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/politics/adam-schiff-kevin-mccarthy-cnntv/index.html