The Democrat Party helps Liz Cheney save her hide

Photo: By US House Office of Photography

Liberal activists protested Dick Cheney's star role in the Iraq War in 2007, in this blue bastion of one of the reddest states. Then they toppled the statue, Saddam Hussein-style, as a symbol of their protest.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has turned to the same Wyoming rare species - Democrats - fifteen years ago to save her seat. Republican Trumpists are doing everything they can to thwart her.

The embattled congresswoman didn't know until now that a band of Trump-loving Republicans would attend her event. About a quarter of the 350 tickets were snapped up for $10 to show Cheney their support.

“I was here when the … Democrats dragged her father’s effigy down a village road behind a truck at one of their rallies, and those are the people who are supporting her now, that she’s embraced,” an angry Rebecca Cloetta, 66, said over breakfast at a greasy spoon called the Virginian.

It appears that Wyoming Republicans, who voted 70 to 27 percent in favor of Trump over Biden in 2020, have turned against Cheney en masse since Jan. 6, 2021. While there haven't been many public polls of her primary race against Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, it's clear that Republicans in Wyoming - which voted 70 to 27 percent for Trump over Biden in 2020 - have turned against her en masse since then.

Cheney declined to be interviewed for this story. However, as reported by The New York Times last month, she does not intend to court Democrats openly by supporting a "Democratic for Cheney" group or encouraging the "Switch for Wyoming" organization that encourages Democratic voters to vote in Republican primaries.

14 March 2022