Liz Cheney is losing (and winning)

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Wyoming Republican will likely lose her primary, but she’s winning over a lot of Democrats in the process. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lynn and I are so proud of Liz for standing up for the truth, doing what's right, honoring
0:07.3	her oath to the Constitution, and so many in our party are too scared to do so.
0:13.3	Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney is guaranteed three votes in her Wyoming primary race next
0:19.0	Tuesday, her moms, her dads, and her own.
0:22.6	I am Dick Cheney, I proudly voted for my daughter, I hope you will too.
0:27.3	She's not guaranteed much else.
0:31.2	Her break with Donald Trump after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th has made her
0:36.4	persona non grata among Republicans in her home state.
0:40.0	And we're fed up with Liz Cheney.
0:45.8	But as Vice Chair of the January 6th Committee, she's won over many Democrats.
0:51.9	Just Cheney's future, coming up on today, explain.
1:05.8	It's today explained, I'm Newell King Leo Wolfson, state political reporter at the Cowboy
1:11.0	State Daily in Cheyenne.
1:13.6	Give me all the dirt on Liz Cheney, who is she?
1:16.0	Well, so Liz Cheney has had an interesting career in the state of Wyoming.
1:20.4	She's obviously the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
1:24.6	She spends not a whole lot of her life growing up in Wyoming, but she did spend at least
1:29.7	a few consecutive years.
1:30.7	There's kind of an on-off type of thing.
1:32.9	The Wyoming's always in my home.
1:36.8	You know, when we left, when I was 12, it was because my dad was elected to represent
1:41.3	the people of Wyoming.
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