Liz Cheney

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Hageman after Liz Cheney broke with fellow Republicans to impeach Trump and criticize his handling of the Jan.

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Her lonely stance against Donald Trump was seen as treachery by today's cult-like Republicans.

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Rep. Liz Cheney arrives to a primary night event on August 16, 2022, in Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson, Wyoming (CNN) Rep ...

And on Wednesday morning, she told NBC's "Today" show that she is "thinking about" running for president and will make a decision in "the coming months." Cheney was by far the most prominent of the 10 House Republicans to vote in January 2021 for Trump's impeachment. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty," she said. Weeks after that speech, Cheney was elusive when asked about the possibility of running for president in 2024. This is a fight for all of us, together." Several people said they felt Cheney devoted far more time on national issues -- to the detriment of her focusing on energy and natural resource priorities of critical importance to the state. "It took a lot of courage to stand against the Republican Party and Donald Trump." Wyoming Republicans' reservations about Cheney were first evident in 2016, when she won her House seat after winning just 39% of the vote in the GOP primary against a fractured field. But she was right on the policies," he said. Cheney attempted to assemble a coalition of Democrats, independents and moderate and anti-Trump Republicans -- many of them ideological opponents of the neoconservative congresswoman before the last 19 months -- to save her seat. But the conservative faction has seized control of the state Republican Party and many of its local organizations. Cheney's ouster caps a summer in which Trump has purged the GOP of many of his critics, while elevating candidates -- including Hageman -- who have parroted his lies about widespread election fraud.

Representative Liz Cheney's martyr-like quest to stop Donald J. Trump has ensured her place in Republican Party history. But her lopsided defeat in Wyoming ...

[paid Google](https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR15685752316302983169/creative/CR05285819755880513537?political=®ion=21164) to run a video ad in just two tiny communities in the nation: Bedminster, N.J., Mr. [condemning him](https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/trump-election-fraud-disgraceful-endgame/) or [cheering his actions](https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-an-exceptional-nominee-for-the-supreme-court/) — said he hoped the party would not renominate Mr. [was ousted](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler-concedes-washington.html) by a Trump supporter. All embraced his [election denialism](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/us/politics/arizona-2020-election-conspiracy-theories.html). “You run to be a representative of the people,” Mr. The cleansing of Trump critics from the Republican Party is still in progress and so thorough that much of it now happens without Mr. A Trump-backed candidate, Tim Michels, who has entertained trying to overturn the 2020 election, [won the Republican nomination](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/politics/kleefisch-michels-wisconsin-governor-gop.html) for governor of Wisconsin. Notably, neither of the two House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. On Wednesday, she formed a new political action committee, the Great Task, whose name nods to Lincoln and which will be filled with leftover campaign cash, and [said she was “thinking” of running for president](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/liz-cheney-2024-president.html). “It’s policy as a signifier of whether you’re part of the in group or the out group.” “The price of admission to today’s Republican Party is turning a blind eye to Jan. The sheer scope of her loss — the daughter of a former vice president was defeated in a landslide — may have only strengthened Mr.

Congressional candidates who have been openly critical of Trump have had huge trouble so far winning Republican primary races. Tom Rice of South Carolina, Jaime ...

She reaffirmed Wednesday morning that she's considering a presidential run. But whether she can find a lane without helping her nemesis remains unclear.

Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) earlier this year — saw her fierce resistance to the former president as counterproductive, according to the recent book “This Will Not Pass.” According to three people close to the group’s discussions, Cheney’s name is in the mix in terms of candidates it would consider putting part of its $50 million cache towards, with some suggesting her as a potential running-mate for a nominee like Sen. But a House primary vote for Cheney is as far as he’s willing to go given the rest of her conservative positions, particularly on abortion. Throughout the summer, she kept her focus on the Jan. Voting Tuesday morning in the bluest part of the state, Horn called her decision to go against Trump “courageous.” [called it a “referendum” ](https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/08-16-2022/mccarthys-confidence/)on her work alongside Democrats investigating Trump on the Jan. The bipartisan group No Labels, which is closely aligned with the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus, is looking to get involved in the 2024 presidential race with significant funds that it’s already raised to help centrist candidates. Vogelheim predicted Cheney would stick to the GOP presidential primary if she runs in 2024, recalling her “emphatic” vow that she wouldn’t be changing parties. She quickly announced Wednesday morning in a POLITICO exclusive that she’ll be forming a new group “to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” as her spokespeson put it. Cheney allies say she won’t get involved in the presidential race if she deems that it would help Trump rather than hurt him. “I think Liz is running the race she wants to run.” Abraham Lincoln, the “great and original champion of our party” as she put it, “ultimately prevailed.

NBC News projected Tuesday night that Cheney, former chairwoman of the House Republican Conference and the elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, ...

She also denounced the former president for allegedly releasing the names of FBI agents involved in a search of his Mar-a-Lago resort “when he knows that our law enforcement is the target of violence.” Asked if she plans to run for president, she first deflected and argued that the GOP needs to be taken in a different direction. “It’s the most important thing I’ve ever been involved in, and I think it’s certainly the most important thing, challenge, that our nation has faced in recent history, and maybe since the Civil War. At the end of July, she had more than $7 million cash on hand, according to FEC filings. "I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic. Overnight, Cheney formed a new leadership political action committee called "The Great Task," an aide confirmed to NBC.

The idea that Cheney would have virtually any shot at winning a national Republican primary after such a loss in her home state is, on its face, laughable. And ...

So it’s easy — and very likely correct — to dismiss out of hand the possibility that Cheney might win. The drawback, of course, is that it could signal a death blow for Cheney’s political career, if it still has any life in it. Put simply, there’s arguably nobody more studied in making the case against Trump than Cheney, and she might decide that’s her role to play in 2024 — to air all of this very publicly on the biggest political stage possible. [she went in the opposite direction](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-anti-trump-movement/?isMobile=1&itid=lk_inline_manual_30). That poll shows her huddled in the low single digits with a number of also-rans — including former governors Nikki Haley and Chris Christie — but it also put her in fourth place by virtue of how concentrated the field is. It’s unlikely it would ever truly make her a contender, but sometimes candidates run to try to shape the race in other ways. There’s also the matter of what Cheney knows about what could lie ahead. And judging from recent years, being in the low single digits could be good enough to put Cheney on the debate stage. And a 2024 bid presents an opportunity, at the very least, to do that. Even in the best of circumstances for Cheney — a timeline in which she is smartly playing the long game and banking on Trump’s ultimate downfall — the 2024 campaign is very near. As Cheney noted, the first campaigns are likely to be launched within a few months. And Cheney is shrewd enough to know that.

The immediate political future of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump's most powerful critics in the GOP, is at stake on Tuesday ...

Murkowski, Republican Kelly Tshibaka and Democrat Patricia Chesbro will advance to the November election, CNN projects, against a fourth candidate yet to be determined. When she was defeated in a 2010 Republican primary during the tea party wave, Murkowski launched a write-in campaign and defeated GOP nominee Joe Miller in the fall. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, was also facing new competition this year fueled by her lack of fealty to the former President. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, whose ascent marked a precursor to the party's Trump era, returned to the ballot on Tuesday. The two survivors to date, in California and Washington, benefited from their states' nonpartisan primary system. "America will never be the same." His enduring popularity there, coupled with Cheney's role as vice chair of the January 6 committee, made the three-term congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney a top target of Trump allies. "Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept, honorably, the outcome of elections. Overnight, the Cheney campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership PAC to be called "The Great Task." "No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. The name of the PAC is a historic nod to Lincoln who spoke at Gettysburg of the "great task" facing the country. "This primary election is over," Cheney said in her speech.

Wyoming congresswoman says 'It's something I'm thinking about' after losing to Trump-backed challenger.

She explained: “I was so impressed with her integrity on the committee and the way she has stood firm, knowing damn well she was going to lose this election. He added: “This is not the end of Liz Cheney. Beyond “representing the people of Wyoming”, she said: “We have a tremendous amount of work left to do on the January 6 committee. “We’ve got to get this party back to a place where we’re embracing the values and the principles on which it was founded. I was born and raised here and this is the kind of integrity that Wyomingites, when I was growing, totally respected. This is the beginning. [Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, noted that the congresswoman received a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the JFK Library earlier this year. She expressed her belief that “the Republican party today is in very bad shape”. On Tuesday night she said she would “do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office”. “We need that, not the profiles in cowardice that the Republican party has today. Those who support him have lied to them and and they’re using people’s patriotism against them,” she said. She did not respond to the question directly but, when pressed a second time, admitted she was.

US Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks to supporters at an election night event during the Wyoming primary election at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming on ...

She also denounced the former president for allegedly releasing the names of FBI agents involved in a search of his Mar-a-Lago resort "when he knows that our law enforcement is the target of violence." "It's the most important thing I've ever been involved in, and I think it's certainly the most important thing, challenge, that our nation has faced in recent history, and maybe since the Civil War. Asked if she plans to run for president, she first deflected and argued that the GOP needs to be taken in a different direction. "I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic. At the end of July, she had more than $7 million cash on hand, according to FEC filings. Overnight, Cheney formed a new leadership political action committee called "The Great Task," an aide confirmed to NBC.

Ms Cheney - once a rising star in the party - also voted to impeach Mr Trump. The primary election in the broadly conservative state highlighted the competing ...

"[It] is something I'm thinking about and I'll make a decision in the coming months," she told Today. "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion." embraced Donald Trump [and] embraced his cult of personality." Speaking to Today, Ms Cheney said it was "dangerous" to elect officials who questioned the result of that election and described it as a "red line" that she would continue to resist. Ms Hageman - who ran to be Wyoming governor in 2018 - was handpicked by the former president and has said she believes the election Mr Trump ultimately lost to President Joe Biden was "rigged". A leading Republican critic of Donald Trump says the party has "embraced his cult of personality" after she was ousted in a primary election.

Trump Republican adversary makes clear that while Trump won the primary battle, the war for the soul of the party rages on.

[Carol Adelman](https://www.hudson.org/experts/2-carol-adelman), 76, who hired a 22-year-old Cheney for the US Agency for International Development, said that “of course” she would like see Cheney run for the White House in 2024. It has proved a winning formula in primaries that reward the loudest voices but could yet backfire on the party in the midterm elections, where centrist voters are put off by extremism. But Adam Kinzinger, Cheney’s Republican colleague on the January 6 committee, is confident that she will not yield. She is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him: eight have lost their primary or retired, while only two stand a chance of surviving to the next Congress. For now, Trump will feel that Tuesday demonstrated that revenge is a dish best served Maga. But if the field is crowded and divided, for example between Trump, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, and former vice-president Mike Pence, she could make a symbolic impact in the “moderate” lane. The journeys of these two fiftysomething women neatly sum up where the Republican party is at. If Trump’s not seeking the nomination, he’ll still get to select the nominee. Democrats would be anxious to avoid a repeat of 2000 Heath Mayo, 32, a lawyer, said: “On the question about the future of the party, there are few people making an argument counter to the prevailing Trumpism argument. Keep making the argument.” She invoked Abraham Lincoln, who lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.

Cheney didn't specify how, or where, she intends to continue her struggle against former President Donald Trump, after Harriet Hageman, the candidate Trump ...

Cheney’s GOP supporters are even more divided over a possible general-election strategy; some sympathizers believe she would hurt Trump most by running as an independent third-party presidential candidate in the general election, and others worry that such a bid would help Trump by splitting voters resistant to him. What she indicated yesterday is that when she talks about a long battle, she is looking not only past the Wyoming House GOP primary but even past the struggle for the next GOP presidential nomination. The best-case scenario for the Trump critics if Cheney runs is that her battering-ram attacks weaken him to the point that someone else can capture the nomination. To save the party, in other words, Cheney might first have to be willing to destroy it. Many of them view Trump’s strongest competitor in early polls, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, as little improvement over Trump in his commitment to a pluralistic democracy; Cheney Some of those voters have since soured on President Joe Biden and the Democrats, but Cheney could spend months reminding them why they rejected Trump in the first place. Kristol predicted that the party might try to exclude her by requiring any candidate participating in a RNC-sanctioned debate to commit to supporting the party’s eventual nominee in the general election—something Cheney’s determination to stop Trump would not allow her to do. Constitution,” Ayres said, that larger group might respond to “a very practical utilitarian case” that Trump has too much baggage to win a general election. Yet many of Trump’s remaining Republican critics believe that a Cheney candidacy in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries could help prevent him from capturing the next nomination—or stop him from winning the general election if he does. With Cheney’s defeat yesterday, four of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 attack on the Capitol have now been ousted in primaries, and four others have retired; only two have survived to face voters in November. In public polls, as many as one-fourth of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents reject Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, or criticize his efforts to overturn the result and his role in the January 6 insurrection. Even so, it would be difficult for any media organization that sponsors an RNC debate to agree to keep her off the stage.

A key primary this week in Wyoming re-affirmed Donald Trump's hold on the Republican party.As expected, Republican Representative Liz Cheney lost her race ...

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The congresswoman, now being asked to consider a presidential run, comes from a state steeped in women's history.

[Esther Morris](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/obituaries/overlooked-esther-morris.html), the 55-year-old wife of a saloonkeeper in Wyoming’s South Pass City, was appointed justice of the peace, becoming the [first woman](https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/esther-hobart-morris-statue) to hold a judicial office in modern history. She ran an efficient court and, according to [Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/28/mrs-frank-leslie/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15), was a “terror to all rogues.” A statue of Morris, a gift from Wyoming, stands in the U.S. At the time, a spokesman for Cheney told The Washington Post that Cheney “believes women’s accomplishments deserve to be honored in an equal manner, alongside those of men, as part of our great national story.” From a historical perspective, it would make a lot of sense for the first female president to hail from Wyoming. A territory at the time, Wyoming retained these rights for women when it became a state in 1890. They were almost entirely single men and not particularly interested in law and order or in building a community or a working government; they hoped to strike it rich and move back to their home states.

Liz Cheney is clear about her goal, but the path is murky: A presidential run is possible, she acknowledged, and she has a new political outfit aimed at the ...

“It’s absolutely clear that the only thing that makes a difference is individuals,” Ms. Cheney’s admirers is that the party itself, at both the state and national level, is so in thrall to Mr. But Ms. For the moment, Ms. Cheney to defeat Harriet Hageman, a Cheyenne lawyer, many Trump-skeptical Republicans across the country were watching Wyoming closely, hoping Ms. Yet should she run as a sort of modern-day Bull Moose and attempt to forge an alliance with the Democrats, independents and lapsed Republicans she urged to “stand together” in her remarks Tuesday, she may strengthen Mr. If she runs as an expressly anti-Trump candidate in the 2024 Republican primary, harnessing the media attention that would come with even a long-shot bid, it may only serve to fracture the share of the G.O.P. Cheney also could focus on laying the groundwork for her own candidacy for president — either as a Republican or as an independent. “If she has really good plans, then the amount of money available to her is definitely in the double-digit millions.” Despite the effort to shift quickly from her defeat to her future, Ms. (As if to underscore the point, Ms. And in an early morning television interview, she for the first time acknowledged what many have suspected: She is “thinking” about running for president in 2024, she said on NBC’s “Today Show,” and would decide in the “coming months.”

President Joe Biden called Liz Cheney on Wednesday after the Wyoming congresswoman and vocal critic of former President Donald Trump was defeated in her ...

Liz Cheney had long expected to lose the Republican primary race in Wyoming — and with it her seat in the US House of Representatives — to Donald ...

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After Harriet Hageman — the Trump-backed victor in Wyoming's Republican primary — said her opponent didn't concede, the Cheney campaign provided a ...

When Hannity sought to clarify that she was alleging Cheney had “just said ‘Hello, Harriet’ and then hung up,” Hageman reiterated: “That was the end of the call, yes.” She made the one effort and all she said was ‘Hello, Harriet.’ And then that was the end of it,” Hageman said. It includes only one message directly from Cheney, though they said Hageman’s team received other communications from elsewhere in the defeated incumbent’s campaign. Cheney added that she never heard back from Hageman. “It is about 8:13 on Tuesday the 16th, I’m calling to concede the election and congratulate you on the win. The message as played on-screen contains only Cheney’s two-word greeting before sound cuts off for more than 10 more seconds.

A key primary re-affirmed Trump's hold on the Republican party. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her race in a landslide, defeated by a Trump-endorsed political ...

She's unlikely to win the Republican nomination, which is the first step that she would need to do to win the presidency. What does that say about the state of the GOP? Does that mean that she could win the nomination or the presidency? And no matter what people say about conservative values and policies, none of that matters if candidates are not loyal to Donald Trump. SHAPIRO: Let's talk more broadly about what last night's primaries say about the state of the Republican Party right now. She's not about to run for office as a Democrat, and the Republicans have all but disavowed her. She voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time. Her dream is to make sure that Donald Trump never gets anywhere near the Oval Office again. She voted against reforming the police in the wake of George Floyd's murder. She only has voted with President Biden 18% of the time. SHAPIRO: So what do last night's results say about the political future of the GOP and of Liz Cheney herself? Now, as she told NBC's Savannah Guthrie this morning, a 2024 presidential run is not out of the question.

Noah said her defeat in a primary was “the chance for Wyoming Republicans to declare whether they stood with Liz Cheney or with Donald Trump, ...

If your job is from 9 to 5, that means the work messages should stop at 5, too. We already have a term for that — it’s called your 30s.” — NICOLE BYER, guest host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” That’s work.” — TREVOR NOAH And look, I mean we must admit it is probably is a long shot, but don’t forget she is a Cheney, and if there is one thing they’re committed to, it’s regime change.” — TREVOR NOAH “But the Liz Cheney story isn’t over yet because she’s vowed that she will still do anything to stop Trump from becoming president again, even possibly running against him in the Republican primary. She voted to impeach him; she’s led the committee investigating him.

Liz Cheney just got trounced by a Trump-backed candidate - but the ex-president's critic isn't going away.

Despite the adulation Cheney is getting today from Democrats, she is a conservative, anti-abortion Republican who voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time when he was in the White House. Wyoming may not be the template for the rest of the country. She says she hears from Republicans who were proud to vote for the former president but now say they are done with Trump because of all the drama. Clearly Liz Cheney isn't planning to retire quietly to the mountains of Jackson Hole. She wouldn't even need to be a candidate because she already has name recognition and cable news hosts are longing to book her. So I was a little taken aback by the vehemence of his email celebrating congresswoman Cheney's defeat to a Trump-backed candidate in her primary race on Tuesday. She's spoken about the bravery of the women who have testified in the 6 January hearings, contrasting them with the men who didn't speak up. And she could be part of it. But beating Trump herself is not what matters to Cheney. His cows had escaped and he needed help to get them back, I was the only person on horseback at the time. She has burned too many bridges with millions of Trump supporters. But not so fast - here's how one of the former president's biggest critics could still hurt him if he runs for re-election.

“The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the house before he won the most important election ...

[purged](https://www.nytimes.com/1942/08/14/archives/mussolini-purges-party-66000-stricken-from-fascist-roll-to-end.html) tens of thousands of Italians from his fascist party in the middle of the war for transgressions that ranged from refusing to join his militias to being only lukewarm in enthusiasm for the little man. Now she [says](https://twitter.com/HagemanforWY/status/1529571556984332288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) he is “the greatest president of my lifetime”. It was old man Cheney whose cabal of loyalists did so much to undermine the technocratic Republican establishment so that he could happily invade Iraq in a One thing is clear: the purge that ended Liz Cheney must not stop in Wyoming. It’s not a measure of whether Trump is stronger or weaker, closer to prison or the presidency. This presents something of a challenge to the lickspittles who follow him. Navarro describes Kushner as the true rat in the kitchen, or as he It could have been the Secret Service. Two years ago she won her Republican primary with 73% of her party, and the general election with 69% of the state. This week she failed to crack the 30% mark. But her resounding defeat in Tuesday’s primary in the near-empty state of Wyoming must mean Something More. Or at the very, very least, running to

In Tuesday night's Wyoming primary, outspoken Trump critic and January 6th Committee member Liz Cheney was defeated soundly by Trump-endorsed challenger ...

And now, [with a number of primary victories for candidates he’s endorsed](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/trump-endorse-primary-candidates.html), Trump continues to prove that he has considerable sway over the party. The consensus is that Republicans are going to take the House this November, and the race for control of the Senate will be close. [liberal groups propping up ultra-MAGA politicians](https://www.vox.com/23274469/democrats-extremist-republicans-mastriano-cox-bailey), expecting they’ll be easier to beat in a general election. [fuel speculation about a 2024 run](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/liz-cheney-2024-president.html) because it keeps the media talking about her. It’s possible that Cheney could stage a [third-party challenge](https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheneys-ouster-makes-third-political-party-more-likely-1590678). He’s really been reenergized in the last couple of weeks by a number of events. The opportunity is that “ultra-MAGA” politicians may have less appeal for swing voters in a general election. But the GOP is just so completely Trumpified that moderates like Cheney no longer have a natural constituency. [gained](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/16/us/wyoming-election-cheney-alaska) only 29 percent of the primary vote against her challenger’s 66. Yesterday was a referendum on Trumpism – at least in Wyoming – but I think some Republican voters also viewed Cheney as [more preoccupied with sparring with the former president than representing the interests of her home state](https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1559716227626504193). Cheney knew that rebuking Trump would likely cost her politically—and in the end, she was right. [In Tuesday night’s Wyoming primary, outspoken Trump critic and January 6th Committee member Liz Cheney was defeated soundly by Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman for the Republican Congressional nomination.

She was ousted in Wyoming's Republican primary last night by the candidate backed by Donald Trump - Harriet Hageman.

We need to have a representative in Wyoming who listens to us.” “Wyoming is entitled to have a representative whorepresentsour interests, listens to us, that addresses our issues, thatisn’tLiz Cheney. And the fact thatthat’swhere she went back to with her speech tonight I thinkdemonstratesthat she reallyisn’tlistening to Wyoming now.

Cheney releases recording of her call to Harriet Hageman, conceding her loss in the Wyoming US House primary on Tuesday.

She has formed a fundraising committee called The Great Task, a nod to the Gettysburg Address, which Lincoln delivered in 1863. The website reported: “The message as played on-screen contains only Cheney’s two-word greeting before sound cuts off for more than 10 more seconds.” As a strong conservative, she seems unlikely to attract significant Democratic or independent support. And if we listen closely, they are speaking to us down the generations. I’m calling to concede the election and congratulate you on the win. It is about 8.13 [pm] on Tuesday the 16th.

A key primary re-affirmed Trump's hold on the Republican party. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her race in a landslide, defeated by a Trump-endorsed political ...

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