The three were also on the ballot in the primary for the regular election for Young's seat. 26, though they must be postmarked by Aug. Sarah Palin, along with Republican Nick Begich and Democrat Mary Peltola advanced from the June primaries to Tuesday's election, but the counting continues in the multi-stage ranked-choice process, and absentee ballots may also be received until Aug. Former vice presidential candidate and Gov. Don Young, who died in March is not yet known, and isn't expected to be finalized for several days or even weeks. The outcome of the special election race to finish the term of Rep. She easily won reelection in 2016 and she has since become a Trump foe, including voting against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. senator in over 50 years to win as a write-in candidate. First appointed to her seat in 2002 and then elected in 2004, Murkowski lost a primary challenge in 2010 but then became the first U.S. Murkowski, who is also from a powerful political dynasty, has come back from the political graveyard before. The other two candidates have yet to be determined. In Alaska's open-primary system, the top four vote-getters go on to the general election, and Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka will also advance. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, another Trump foe, will advance to the general election. While some anti-Trump Republicans have acknowledged there is an open lane for a Republican like Cheney in 2024, she only polled at 2% in a recent Morning Consult poll on the 2024 primary.ĬBS News projects that Sen. 6 committee has gone to great lengths to debunk.Ĭheney, whose national profile has risen during her crusade against the former president, has not shut the door on a presidential run in 2024. But now she's embraced his support and his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, allegations that have never been supported and that the House Jan. Hageman was once a Trump critic and backed Sen. While House GOP leadership usually backs incumbents, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has followed Trump's lead and backed Hageman.
The Wyoming Republican Party has both censured and disavowed her, a largely symbolic move. Capitol and one of only two Republicans on the committee. She is the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 3 Republican in House leadership and whose father is former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been one of Trump's most outspoken foes in the House. Four have decided to retire or not run for reelection and three others have either lost to primary challengers or conceded.īut Cheney, who once was the No. Of those 10, only two have prevailed and will go on to the general election in November. "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."Īfter Hageman was projected the winner, Trump congratulated her on Truth Social, calling her win "very decisive."Ĭheney is the last of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to face a primary challenge. "As a country, we're facing a moment where our democracy really is under attack and under threat," Cheney said.Ĭheney added that she has no regrets about the campaign she's run. She looked beyond her congressional race to the battle she has been waging to hold Trump accountable for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. She had told CBS News' Robert Costa on Tuesday before the polls closed that this primary is "certainly the beginning of a battle that is going to continue to go on." Cheney lost to challenger Harriet Hageman in the primary. 16, 2022, at a primary Election Day gathering in Jackson, Wyo. 6, that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it," she said. "We must be very clear-eyed about the threat we face and about what is required to defeat it. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty," Cheney said, before adding that she called Hageman to concede. "No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. That was a path I could not and would not take." In a concession speech Tuesday night, Cheney said she believed she could have won the primary but it required her to "go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election. Lisa Murkowski and Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka were among the candidates advancing to the November general election.
Liz Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump's fiercest critics, has lost the Wyoming Republican primary to Harriet Hageman, who was backed by Trump.
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