Hageman: Cheney focused on Trump 'obsession' instead of Wyoming
Republican Wyoming congressional candidate Harriet Hageman said a large part of the reason that she defeated Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in her primary on Tuesday was due to her lack of focus on Wyoming, instead setting her eyes on “an obsession about President Trump.”
During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham after her primary win in Wyoming, Hageman said that while she hasn’t spoken to Cheney since her defeat, she “wasn’t surprised” that Cheney vowed to keep Trump away from the White House in her concession speech, noting that’s a large part why she was defeated.
“I have not had an opportunity to even see or hear what she had to say because I’ve been kind of focused on what’s going on here,” she told Ingraham. “It doesn’t surprise me that she would revert to those same old talking points, because that’s really in large part what got her defeated.”
“She is not focusing on Wyoming,” Hageman added. “She’s not focusing on our issues. She is still focusing on an obsession about President Trump. And the citizens of Wyoming, the voters of Wyoming sent a very loud message tonight. We have spoken. And that is not what we are interested in in terms of our lone congressional representative.”
Hageman, an attorney and former Republican National Committee (RNC) member endorsed by former President Trump last year, said that Wyoming “is entitled to have a representative that represents our interests, listens to us, that addresses our issues.”
“That isn’t Liz Cheney, and the fact that that’s where she went back to with her speech tonight I think demonstrates that she really is listening to Wyoming now, she hasn’t for quite some time. And that’s why we needed to replace her,” she said. “We need to have a representative in Wyoming who listens to us.”
During Cheney’s concession speech, she vowed to do “whatever it takes” to keep the former president from office.
“Two years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the votes. I could easily have done the same again, the path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election,” Cheney said.
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