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And while as everybody expected she would, Liz Cheney went down to flaming defeat last night in Wyoming.

She lost by 37 points to a somewhat no name named Harriet Hageman.

According to the New York Times, Representative Cheney was resoundingly defeated by Hageman

in her Republican primary on Tuesday handing Donald Trump his most prized a trophy yet in his

long campaign to purge the Republican Party of his critics.

That's the way the New York Times like to characterize this.

I'm sure this is how Liz Cheney would characterize her defeat as well. And as we'll talk about in just one moment, that's not actually what happened here. This was not just purely about Liz Cheney did not like what Donald Trump did between November 4th and January 6th. It wasn't just that Liz Cheney was an opponent of Donald Trump in his statements about the election.

She did far more than that.

And one of the things the media have been jumping on here is the idea that if you are not in favor of Liz Cheney, it's because you are a participant in January 6th or because you go along with the falsehood that Donald Trump won the 2020 election outright except for overt voter fraud, for example. That is not what was going on. It was very much in Liz Cheney's interest to push that idea. It's very much in the interest of the media to push that idea. It's very much in the interest of Democrats to push that idea. But it is not the case. According to the New York Times, Hageman, a lawyer in Cheyenne with little political following before she was lifted by Mr. Trump's endorsement, trounced Ms. Cheney, the daughter of a former vice president, by more than 30 percentage points with more than 90% of the vote counted.

Ms. Cheney's loss was anticipated as it was consequential.

The leading Republican voice against Mr. Trump and vice-chairwoman of the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack next year will no longer have her perch in Congress from which to battle a figure she believes poses a grave threat to American democracy. And you can see in the New York Times why exactly so many members of the Republican

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