11/28/2023 0 Comments Citizen press 2000 mules![]() “President Trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and convincing millions of Americans that the election was corrupt and that he was the true president. “As you will see in great detail in our hearings, president Trump ignored the rulings of our nation’s courts, he ignored his own campaign leadership, his White House staff, many Republican state officials, he ignored the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security,” Cheney said in her opening remarks of the first hearing. While the second-term congresswoman has occupied the national stage, interviewing witnesses and laying out a case against the popular-in-Wyoming former president, Hageman’s been riding the state’s conventional campaign circuit for months. The approach carries significant political risk. That strategy, however, depends on Wyoming voters paying attention and not having made up their minds. But Cheney’s campaign and proponents have bet big on winning hearts and minds through the incumbent’s leadership role in the high-profile select committee hearings and the body’s revelations about the Capitol Building attack. If such sentiments are as widespread as many observers believe, they jeopardize the electability of Cheney, who sailed to victories in previous House races, but now faces a formidable opponent hand-picked by Trump: Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman.Įarly polling from Hageman-aligned groups suggests the challenger is well in the lead. “I’m serious, I don’t believe a word that comes out of their mouths.”Ī dim view of Cheney, a belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and a perception that the insurrection is being overblown to shine Cheney’s star on the national stage were commonplace in Sublette County, where the population has slipped since a natural gas boom in the early 2000s. “They had to hire Hollywood,” Valerie Wheeler, a bartender at the Den, said between serving customers at the Daniel Junction restaurant. ![]() Natalie Strong outside the All American Fuel convenience store in Big Piney on June 21, 2022. The handful of residents who had tuned into or read about the committee were skeptical of its motives and legitimacy. ![]() The majority of randomly selected interviewees - nearly 80% - have paid no attention to the hearings that some theorize could lead to the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump. House committee’s examination of the attack, was widely shared among the 19 Wyoming voters that WyoFile spoke with this week in rural Sublette County - high-desert gas-field country that’s home to small communities like Bondurant, Hoback Ranches, Daniel, Marbleton and Pinedale. Strong’s lacking interest in the events of Jan. “I have so much going on in my life, I really just don’t follow the news. “I couldn’t even tell you what happened on Jan. Liz Cheney, nor did she have much say about her congresswoman’s role as vice-chair of the congressional committee probing the insurrection that played out 1,700 miles away some 18 months prior. The working mother didn’t have much of an opinion about U.S. Strong was a little embarrassed to say it, but she was drawing a blank. ![]() 6, 2021, the day a violent mob stormed the U.S. SUBLETTE COUNTY-Natalie Strong took a moment outside of the All American Fuel convenience store in Big Piney to think back on Jan. Our work is made possible by dedicated members like you who invest in our reporting - thank you! We appreciate you being a member of the WyoFile community.
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