A Home candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump handily defeated Rep. Liz Cheney in a Republican Social gathering straw ballot in Wyoming, in line with a report.
Harriet Hageman, whom Trump endorsed in September to problem Cheney within the Republican major, gained the straw ballot performed by the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee with 59 votes, the Casper Star-Tribune reported on Saturday.
Cheney got here in a distant second with six votes.
The incumbent drew Trump’s ire when she voted — together with 9 different Republicans — to question the previous president on Jan. 13 over his position within the Jan. 6. Capitol riot.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, she and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois are the one Republicans on the Home Choose Committee investigating Jan. 6.
The central committee final November voted 31-29 to not acknowledge the Republican congresswoman as a member following her vote to question Trump.
Hageman’s vote totals have been introduced first at Saturday’s assembly and have been greeted by applause, the Star-Tribune reported.
“I feel it’s a very good signal. It’s not an endorsement, however these are the county activists” Hageman informed the newspaper.
“The one elections that matter are in August and November,” Jeremy Adler, a spokesperson for the Cheney marketing campaign, informed the newspaper after the vote.
“This smells like an endorsement to me,” Natrona County Committeeman Joe McGinley stated. “Whether or not that’s the true intention of the state … or not, that’s what it seems to be.”
Hageman wasn’t prepared to assert victory.
“There can be plenty of polls over the subsequent eight months, and they’ll all present various things,” she stated.
