The Wyoming Republican Party voted to no longer recognized Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as a member of the party.
The state party central committee voted 31-29 on Saturday to stop recognizing Cheney as a Republican. This comes after local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming’s 23 counties voted to support a similar measure, according to the Associated Press.
“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,” Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said in a statement.
This is the second formal rebuke Cheney has received from her home state Republican Party for breaking with Donald Trump. The party voted to censure her for supporting Trump’s second impeachment for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
According to AP, Cheney is now facing at least four Republican opponents in the 2022 primary including Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman, whom Trump has endorsed.
Hageman defended the state GOP central committee vote in a statement to the Casper Star-Tribune calling it “fitting.”
“Liz Cheney stopped recognizing what Wyomingites care about a long time ago. When she launched her war against President Trump, she completely broke with where we are as a state,” Hageman said.
