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How Liz Cheney Became a 'Republican Outcast'

Republican Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress after voters in Wyoming elected a pro-Trump candidate in the primary.

Cheney, who has been in the Wyoming House of Representatives since 2017, lost the election to Harriet Hedgeman, the candidate endorsed by his former President Donald Trump.

The 56-year-old congressman "paid the price" for his "firm opposition" to Trump,writes David Smith in The Guardian.

Since the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Cheney has been an outspoken critic of the former president and served as vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the incident..She was one of two Republicans on the committee and one of only 10 who voted to impeach Trump.

Conceding her defeat, Cheney said she would "easily "I could have won the election," she said. Instead, she declared that "the public offices of this country are less important than the principles we swore to uphold," to prevent Trump from winning a second term in 2024..

"The Rising Star of the Republican Party"

Cheney was once considered a "Rising Star of the Republican Party," but he " Shane writes that she found herself an outlier after becoming "the most obsessive Trump detractor in her party." Her Goldmacher in The New York Times (NYT). 

Her landslide defeat shows the "astonishing extent" of Donald Trump's control of the Republican Party, the most ever of a "party reorganization." It's an "obvious" sign.

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, she was part of "political royalty," Smith told The Guardian. Founding of the Republican Party.

Cheney is one of the "most conservative legislators in America," and she is "far from moderate," said Edward Her Ruth of the Financial Times. Stated. Time on duty at the White House. Her subsequent "persistence" that led to Trump's downfall saw her become "America's most famous electoral suicide," but her ouster was "what defines the Republican Party today."

"The New Legitimacy"

In the case of the Republican Party today, "extremes set the narrative," Ruth wrote. The Republican Party is "more motivated by dislikes of Trump than by admiration of Trump." Goldmatcher wrote to the NYT that he considers himself alienated from Trump supporters are working to "condemn or banish those who break the new legitimacy."

Despite her defeat, Cheney "issued a rallying cry to defend democracy," the Guardian said, adding that "no one should accept that her political career is over." No.” Many of her admirers are “advocating for the 2024 presidential election,” which Trump is strongly rumored to stand for.