It’s unclear at this point which party Cheney is running for. She’s much more at home with Democrats now, enjoying their donations and begging for their primary votes.
With Republican primary voters ready to send Liz Cheney packing on Tuesday, could it be Wyoming Democrats that come to her rescue?
The idea that Democrats in one of the reddest and least populated states in the country could vote in high enough numbers to try and save Cheney seems unlikely but that’s not stopping the attempt:
In the last week, Wyoming Democrats have received mail from Ms. Cheney’s campaign with specific instructions on how to change their party affiliation to vote for her. Ms. Cheney’s campaign website now has a link to a form for changing parties.
Joseph Barbuto, the chairman of the Wyoming Democratic Party, was among those who received Ms. Cheney’s instructions. Mr. Barbuto said that over the last week, his social media feeds have been flooded with Democrats — and only Democrats — posting about receiving mailers from the Cheney campaign.
“I haven’t had any Republicans share online or tell me that they received it,” Mr. Barbuto said on Thursday.
Recruiting Democratic support has been a sensitive topic for Ms. Cheney since she voted to impeach former President Donald J. Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
In some ways, it’s simply another dig at voters in the state she claims to represent. Wyoming is a deep-red state meaning that most of the voters there are very conservative in their views, even perhaps many Democrats.
How would Liz Cheney expect to represent a state that voted 70% for Donald Trump in 2020, then turn around and vote to impeach him and chair a highly partisan committee aimed at attacking him?
Cheney would be better off returning to her, um, home state of Virginia and running for Congress if she wants to find a district that better aligns with her views than ultra-MAGA Wyoming.
Inflation, the economy, energy policy? Cheney has spent little to no attention on the actual issues voters care about. She’s been on a single-track vendetta for over a year and it’s no wonder the voters in her state are sick of it would and would like some actual representation in Washington.
Recent polls give Hageman anywhere from a 22 to a 29-point lead, and those numbers could be an understatement.
There are now stories popping up asking whether Cheney really wants to win her primary or not and pointing out that her events and campaigning in the state are extremely low-key and she spends most of her time elsewhere:
“After she jumped in on the Jan. 6 thing, and she jumped in on the impeachment, she was nowhere to be found. She wasn’t meeting with the people. She doesn’t care about us,” Myrna Burgess told ABC at the Laramie County Fair.
“She’s tone-deaf to even listening to us,” said Burgess, also claiming that the congresswoman had taken a soft stance on Second Amendment rights because she like 13 other Republicans voted for a recent bipartisan anti-gun violence package. Burgess said that decision was another indicator that she’s out of touch with voters.
Cheney’s no dummy, she knows she’s done in Wyoming. She’s out of touch with the state’s electorate and certainly out of touch with Republican voters in general.
It’s clear that after Tuesday, Cheney will take her newfound anti-Trump vendetta fame and roll it into something new, perhaps some kind of super PAC or even a possible 2024 presidential run just to continue being a thorn in the side of MAGA world.
After this loss, though, she may be more irrelevant than she expects but a future role as a CNN or MSNBC contributor is certainly in the cards if politics doesn’t pan out.
The Wyoming Republican primary takes place on Tuesday, August 16.
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