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And if Representative Liz Cheney loses her seat in Wyoming, it won't be because of her fundraising.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Representative Liz Cheney has set another personal fundraising record.

The Wyoming Republican is fighting off a serious challenge from Harriet Higman.

A Cheyenne attorney and the August 16th primary has turned into the most important and closely watched contest between the MAGA and traditional wings of the GOP.

Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Thiel, and dozens of House Republicans who kicked Cheney out of House GOPee leadership are backing Hageman. George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan are backing Cheney. Normally, being booted out of leadership might put a crimp in a member's fundraising. But the Cheney Camp is prepared to announce that it raised $2.94 million in the first

quarter of this year. That brings her total haul for the cycle to more than 10 million. With four

months left to go in the primary campaign, Cheney has $6.8 million on hand. In previous cycles,

it was common for Cheney to raise a few hundred thousand dollars in a quarter, mostly from

Wyoming residents.

With the national attention her race has received, money has poured in from across the country.

At the end of the first quarter of last year, Cheney set a then-personal fundraising record,

1.5 million, then 1.9 million in quarter two, 1.7 in quarter three, and 2 million in quarter

4. But now, she shattered her quarter 4 record. Cheney's first quarter total is more than double of what Hageman raised. And that brings us to a final wrinkle in the race that hasn't received much attention. Trump's endorsement of Higman didn't exactly clear the field. In fact, there's a more Trumpy candidate in the race. Anthony Bouchard, a state senator, arguably has more of a claim to the Trump mantle than Higman, who was previously a never-Trump Republican and called then-Candidate Trump racist and xenophobic. Bouchard, meanwhile, has been a Trump diehard since the 2016 primaries. He has some major vulnerabilities as a candidate. When he was 18, the Casper Star Tribune reported that he, quote, had a relationship with

and impregnated a 14-year-old girl.

His colleagues in the legislature kicked him off his committees last month.

But some Wyoming observers are comparing the dynamic to the Alabama-Giopi Senate primary in 2017.

When Trump endorsed the seemingly more electable Luther Strange or with the seemingly

toxic Roy Moore, who still ended up winning the MAGA vote and the primary.

If Hageman and Bashar split the Trump vote, Cheney could squeak by with a plurality coalition

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