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Liliana Salgado and Nathan Lane
Jackson — U.S. Congressman Liz Cheney, a staunch Republican critic of Donald Trump, played a key role in the January 6 congressional inquiry The attack on the Capitol that took place Tuesday was defeated by a major Trump-backed challenger, Edison Research predicted.
Cheney's defeat by Harriet Hedgeman marks the former president in his campaign to expel Republicans who supported his impeachment after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building last year. marks an important victory for
US Senator Lisa Markowski (Alaska) also voted for impeachment, facing another Trump candidate on Tuesday, but her fate remains Unknown. Voting for that primary, a nonpartisan format with the top four vote-getters advancing to the general election, has not yet closed.
According to Edison Research, his 18% of the expected votes were tallied, with Hageman leading the Republican field with his 65.1% share of the vote, followed by Cheney with 30.3%. rice field.
Wyoming and Alaska are definitely Republican-leaning, and neither outcome is likely to affect whether President Joe Biden's Democrats lose their very thin majority in Congress. Republicans are expected to retake the House and possibly gain control of the Senate.
Yet Cheney's downfall is the latest sign of Trump's enduring influence over the Republican Party. Trump, who has hinted at running for president in 2024, has made ending Cheney's congressional career a priority among his 10 House Republicans supporting impeachment in 2021.
Cheney, former Republican Vice President Dick's daughter Cheney used her position on a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks to use Trump's actions over the Capitol riots. and continues to draw attention to his false claims about the 2020 election, trying to convince fellow Republicans that the former president is a threat. Democracy.
House of Representatives Cheney voted to impeach Trump on charges of inciting a Capitol riot, and Senate Markowski voted to convict him of that charge. Mr. was eventually acquitted. (Reporting by Liliana Salgado of Jackson, Wyoming and Nathan Lane of Wilton, CT; additional reporting by Eric Beach and Moira Warburton; editing by Scott Malone and Alister Bell)
