{"id":128869,"date":"2022-08-17T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=128869"},"modified":"2022-08-17T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T03:31:58","slug":"trump-backed-challenger-beats-republican-liz-cheney-in-u-s-midterm-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/trump-backed-challenger-beats-republican-liz-cheney-in-u-s-midterm-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed challenger beats Republican Liz Cheney in U.S. midterm primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSON, Wyo. (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, a fierce Republican critic of Donald Trump who has played a prominent role in the congressional probe of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger on Tuesday.<\/p>

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Cheney\u2019s defeat by Harriet Hageman marks a significant victory for the former president in his campaign to oust Republicans who backed impeaching him after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building last year.<\/p>\n

In conceding the race, Cheney said she was not willing \u201cgo along with President Trump\u2019s lie about the 2020 election\u201d to win a primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. That was a path I could not and would not take,\u201d she told a gathering of her supporters.<\/p>\n

The fate of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who also voted in favor of impeachment and is facing off against another Trump-backed candidate on Tuesday, remains unclear. The polls for that primary, a nonpartisan format in which the top four vote-getters advance to the general election, have not yet closed.<\/p>\n

With 37% of the expected ballots counted, Hageman led the Republican field with 59% of the vote, followed by Cheney with 36%, according to Edison Research.<\/p>\n

Both Wyoming and Alaska are reliably Republican, making it unlikely that either\u2019s result will influence whether President Joe Biden\u2019s Democrats lose their razor-thin majorities in Congress. Republicans are expected to retake the House and also have a chance of winning control of the Senate.<\/p>\n

The ousting of Cheney is nevertheless the latest sign of Trump\u2019s enduring sway over the Republican Party. Trump, who has hinted that he will run for president in 2024, made ending Cheney\u2019s congressional career a priority among the 10 House Republicans targeted for supporting his impeachment in 2021.<\/p>\n

Cheney, the daughter of Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, says Trump is a threat to democracy. She has used her position on the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack to keep attention on Trump\u2019s actions around the Capitol riot, and his false claims that he won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

Cheney, in the House, voted to impeach Trump on a charge of inciting the Capitol riot, while Murkowski, in the Senate, voted to convict him on that charge. Trump was ultimately acquitted.<\/p>\n

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