Liz Cheney's 'Questionable' Anti-Trump Views Lead To Wyoming GOP No Longer Recognizing Her

Over the weekend, the Wyoming GOP voted 31-29 in Buffalo, Wyoming, to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as a member of the party. The party rebuked her position against former President Donald Trump, specifically regarding his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, as reasoning, according to AP News.

“The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack...there has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” Cheney said in a statement following the insurrection.

Cheney, 55, the lone U.S. Representative from Wyoming, was one of the few Republicans who went against party lines to vote to impeach Trump after the insurrection. Many members of the GOP in Wyoming objected to this decision, resulting in their censuring of Cheney back in February.

In May, D.C. Republicans removed Cheney from a top congressional leadership position after she criticized Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The resolution to no longer recognize Cheney in the Wyoming GOP reads, “Previously mentioned in the resolution of censure, Representative Liz Cheney cast her vote in favor of impeachment without any quantifiable evidence of High Crimes or Misdemeanors...As to date, no quantifiable and or undisputed evidence has been offered Representative Liz Cheney to defend her questionable decision.”

The vote does not remove Cheney, the oldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, from power as it is a symbolic gesture. Previously, about nine counties’ GOP parties in Wyoming voted to no longer recognize Cheney with some county parties passing resolution unanimously, according to the Casper Star-Tribune.

Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler commented to the outlet, “It’s laughable to suggest Liz is anything but a committed conservative Republican. She is bound by her oath to the Constitution. Sadly, a portion of the Wyoming GOP leadership has abandoned that fundamental principle, and instead allowed themselves to be held hostage to the lies of a dangerous and irrational man.”

Representative Cheney now faces at least four Republican opponents in the 2022 primary, including Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.