In the Ways That Count, Liz Cheney Won

Posted on AllSides August 17th, 2022
From The Left
Jordan Gale/The New York Times
OPINION

I know what the numbers say. I can read the returns. By those hard, cold, simplistic measures, Liz Cheney was defeated overwhelmingly in her House Republican primary in Wyoming on Tuesday night, and her time in Congress is winding down.

But it’s impossible for me to say that she lost.

She got many, many fewer votes than her opponent, an unscrupulous shape shifter unfit to shine her shoes, because she chose the tough world of truth over Donald Trump’s underworld of lies. That’s a moral victory.

She was spurned by conservatives in Wyoming because...

Read full story
Some content from this outlet may be limited or behind a paywall.

AllSides Picks

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion/liz-cheney-trump-primary.html

More News about Elections from the Left, Center and Right

From the Left

From the Center

From the Right