The Democrats will not have succeeded in saving Liz Cheney. In one of those unholy alliances generated in the United States by Donald Trump’s influence in the primaries for the midterm elections in November, non-Republican voters in Wyoming were invited by the incumbent, and door- flag of the opposition to the former president, to temporarily change affiliation to help him overcome the hostility of his camp.
The calculation failed. Turnout was higher than usual, suggesting that a number of defectors had joined the Republicans. But in such a conservative state, the least populated in the country, where the Democrats are four times outnumbered by the Republicans, Harriet Hageman, the candidate supported by Donald Trump, had no trouble eliminating Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, elected since 2016 and re-elected in 2020 with 68% of the vote. The gap was 35 points, even larger than the score announced by the polls.
Less than two hours after the close of the poll, the outgoing could only congratulate her rival, a lawyer specializing in litigation against environmental regulations, close to the Cheney family until then, but converted into a faithful Trump for the ballot. . But Liz Cheney did not hide that the former president had not finished finding her across her path. “The primary is over; now the real work begins,” she launched, calling “Republicans, Democrats, Independents” to join her to prevent the former president from returning to business. “He knows his lies will provoke violence, she charged. A further escalation of violence is to be expected. »
“Your dishonor will remain”
Former jurist at the State Department under George W. Bush, former lively columnist on Fox News, often doctrinaire conservative, Liz Cheney, 56, was the number three in the Republican Party until her repudiation, in May 2021, by the general staff for having voted in favor of the dismissal of Donald Trump, after the events of January 6 at the Capitol. Having become the face of resistance to Trump and his attempt to deny the victory of Joe Biden, she had accepted the proposal of Nancy Pelosi, one of the figures most hated by the Republicans, to take the vice-presidency of the commission investigation of the insurgency. The Trumpists had mobilized against “ Pelosi’s puppet “. The dissident had challenged them to the verdict of the story. “To my Republican friends who defend the indefensible, there will be a day when Trump is gone but your dishonor will remain. »
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