Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has an uphill battle for reelection in Wyoming as her work on the Jan. 6 committee has left many voters feeling sour about her.
As voters walked the grounds of Wyoming’s Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo festival in the state’s capital, CNN set out to ask them how they felt about sending Cheney back to Washington for a fourth term.
“I think she’s had three too many,” one Wyoming voter said.
“Can I cuss? Hell no,” said Wyoming resident Sharon Tuggle bluntly before noting Cheney’s work on the Jan. 6 committee. “She’s done us dirty.”
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In 2020, former President Donald Trump won around 70% of the vote in Wyoming. He remains popular in the state.
“Look at how [Cheney’s] done Trump,” Tuggle said. “She’s supposed to be supporting him. She’s a Republican, for crying out loud.”
Andrew Kahler told CNN he would not be voting for Cheney, calling her work on the Jan. 6 committee “a hoax.”
Other voters said Cheney is not representing Wyoming well by taking on Trump.
“That’s not the Wyoming way,” Brett Kupec said.
“She has been an embarrassment,” another voter said. “I don’t feel like she supports her people here in Wyoming anymore. The things that she’s voting for don’t really reflect what the people here in Wyoming feel.”
CNN said it only found two Cheney supporters on the crowded rodeo grounds.
“She’s got [my vote] even stronger now,” Dean Dexter said of Cheney. “She’s made a stand, and she’s saying something is wrong, and I agree with her.”
Shawn McKee said Cheney’s work on the Jan. 6 committee showed “she has a lot of integrity.”
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Wyoming voters will head to the polls in August for its Republican primary. Cheney faces stiff competition in Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman.
In July, a poll showed Hageman leading Cheney by 22 percentage points.
