CBS News has projected that Harriet Hageman defeated Rep. Liz Cheney Tuesday night in the Republican primary for Wyoming’s at-large House seat. Ahead of the expected loss, however, Cheney suggested she’s just getting started.
Soon after she voted in Jackson, Wyo., Cheney told CBS News’ Robert Costa that Tuesday’s primary is “certainly the beginning of a battle that is going to continue to go on. And as a country, we’re facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat.”
“I feel very proud about all the work I’ve done together with the people of Wyoming over the last six years and really understand and recognize there’s nothing more important than the defense of our Constitution,” she said.
Early Wednesday morning, Cheney converted her campaign committee to a federal “Leadership PAC” called “The Great Task.” Political Action Committees (PACs) like these can be used to raise money even if she’s not a federal candidate, fund travel and donate to other political campaigns.
The name of the PAC is the same of her last ad of the campaign and is a nod to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, according to the PAC’s website.”In coming weeks, Liz will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president,” said Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler.
Former President Donald Trump backed Hageman and has been heavily involved in the effort against Cheney since she voted to impeach him after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Since the attack, her high-profile rebuke of Trump and his allies — and her leadership role on the House Jan. 6 select committee — has only strengthened that animosity.
“Liz Cheney has helped the radical Democrat party weaponize the national security state and law enforcement against MAGA and MAGA supporters, who are hard working and incredible people,” Trump said at a rally in Casper, Wyo., in May. “The phony narrative that Liz Cheney is pushing has been the radical left’s pretext for their all-out war on free speech. The persecution of the Jan. 6 political prisoners.”
Hageman is a Wyoming native and longtime attorney who prides herself on her cases fighting against environmental regulations.
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