Headline Roundup • August 17th, 2022
What Significance Does Liz Cheney's Loss Hold Heading Into Midterms?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Voices across the spectrum are weighing in on what Liz Cheney's loss in the Wyoming GOP House primary represents.
Only two of the 10 "pro-impeachment" House Republicans have advanced to the general election. Trump received the highest percentage of votes in Wyoming than any other state in the 2020 presidential election. Some outlets attributed Cheney's "unhinged anti-Trump rants" to her "inevitable" loss and accused her of being "far harsher" to Trump than President Joe Biden.
While left-rated voices were more likely to label Cheney as a "committed" conservative, right-rated voices were more divided on the matter. While some conservatives proclaimed that Cheney has displayed "courage," others condemned her as "comically narcissistic" and said she "lacks the star power of her father."
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Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s political future had long been in jeopardy. From voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to repeatedly refuting his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, Cheney has been one of Trump’s harshest critics. Now that outspokenness has come with a price.
The daughter of one of America’s most powerful vice presidents lost to her main primary challenger, attorney Harriet Hageman, by around 20 points, based on incomplete returns as of 10:30 p.m. Eastern. Hageman’s path to victory was pretty straightforward. She entered...
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A few folks, like the usually astute Quin Hillyer, argue that if Liz Cheney wants to run for president in 2024, she must do so as an independent. I concur that there is no realistic path to Cheney getting the GOP nomination against Trump, either in a one-on-one race, or in a multi-candidate field that included someone like Florida governor Ron DeSantis. (If you’re getting blown out in a one-on-one GOP primary in Wyoming, you’re not gonna win the GOP presidential nomination. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you get a respectable finish...
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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...
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