Voters will decide the fates of two top Republicans on Tuesday as primaries are held in Alaska and Wyoming, two of the nation’s reddest states. In Wyoming, the vice chairwoman of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6, Liz Cheney, is facing an attempt by Donald Trump to punish her for infidelity in the form of Harriet Hageman, her former staffer and now her top opponent. Mrs. Cheney is deeply down in the polls and could lose tomorrow by more than 20 points according to most indications. However, she has a trick up her sleeve: Democrats, who are rallying behind her in an effort to block another 2020 conspirator from office. Wyoming’s primary election has closed, but voters can change their registration on Election Day. Meanwhile in Alaska, former governor and right-wing provocateur Sarah Palin is seeking to make a political comeback after resigning from her previous post under a cloud of ethics investigations. In a poll measuring her support levels last month, she fell behind a Republican as well as a Democrat in the race. Alaska has ranked-choice voting, meaning candidates will face both Democratic and Republican voters who will decide the outcome.
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What to watch for in today’s primaries
Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could restart the political career of one former Republican star and effectively end the career of another — at least for now. Here’s what to look out for:
What to watch: Cheney in trouble as Palin eyes comeback
Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could restart the political career of one former Republican star and effectively end the career of another Oliver O’Connell16 August 2022 14:30 1660654968
Sarah Palin’s ex-in-laws have planned an election-eve party for her rival
Jim and Faye Palin, Sarah Palin’s former in-laws, said they would throw a party for the former Alaska governor’s opponent, Nick Begich. Mr. Begich, who is running against Ms. Palin for Alaska’s lone House seat, received the support of Ms. Palin’s former in-laws months ago after the two announced in two Facebook posts that they would support him and not their former daughter. -relation by marriage. “We know many of our elected officials and candidates by name. It also makes it hard sometimes to choose who to vote for,” Jim Palin said in one of the posts shared on the Republican candidate’s Facebook page. “This election, Nick Begic gets my vote.” It was also revealed that the mother of Ms. Palin’s ex, Todd Palin, contributed $250 on May 19 to Mr. Begich’s campaign, Business Insider reported. Johanna Chisholm August 16, 2022 2:02 p.m 1660653000
Cheney and Murkowski: Trump’s critics face different futures
They come from the most prominent Republican families in their states. They have been among the sharpest critics of former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. And after the uprising of January 6, they supported his impeachment. But for all their similarities, the political fortunes of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming are poised to diverge Tuesday when each is on the ballot in closely watched primaries closely.
Cheney and Murkowski: Trump’s critics face different futures
US Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney come from their states’ most prominent Republican families Oliver O’Connell August 16, 2022 1:30 p.m 1660649400
Giuliani said he is the target of a criminal election investigation in Georgia
Rudy Giuliani is the target of a criminal investigation by authorities in Georgia into the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, the New York Times reported Monday. The former New York mayor and Donald Trump lawyer has been one of the leading proponents of false conspiracies about the 2020 election and has appeared before several committees of state lawmakers in Georgia to demand that they certify the results showing Joe Biden the winner. Now, his actions could make him the first Trump associate to be criminally charged in the scheme to keep Biden from becoming president.
Rudy Giuliani said he is the target of a criminal election probe in Georgia, report says
The former Trump lawyer had his license suspended under the Election Fraud Conspiracy Act Oliver O’Connell August 16, 2022 12:30 p.m 1660647897
Cheney and Murkowski’s political fate is in doubt solely because they stood up to Trump, NYT editorial board writes
On Monday night, the New York Times Editorial Board published an op-ed that shed light on two Republicans, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who both face primary challenges on Tuesday as they come facing their opponents. supported by former President Donald Trump. “Indeed, their political fate is in question simply because they stood up to Mr. Trump when it would have been far safer and politically expedient not to,” the board wrote. Ms. Cheney’s and Ms. Murkowski’s positions are a relief to so many of this season’s Republican candidates, who are launching scorched-earth attacks on Democrats as “liars” even as they continue to promote Mr. Trump’s Big Lie. Some MAGA Republicans like to pretend to be brave with shows of chest-beating, ranting and raving, and complaints of persecution from social media and the media. But much of it is political theater aimed at firing up the Trump base, and none of it requires moral courage. Violence, like the violence unleashed in the January 6 attack, is an ever-present and growing response to political bravery in our democracy. He was there at the Capitol that day. He was there in the hatred directed at John Lewis and his colleagues in Selma. was present in the alleged kidnapping plot targeting Ms. Whitmer. and it is present in the stream of death threats politicians in both parties receive whenever they cross a line. The New York Times Editorial Board Read the full editorial here. Johanna Chisholm August 16, 2022 12:04 p.m 1660646757
Trump gloats over Liz Cheney’s loss before primary polls even open: ‘You’re fired’
With polls showing a heavy defeat on the horizon for Liz Cheney in Wyoming, former President Donald Trump took one look at the Republican nominee and used his trademark catchphrase — “You’re fired” — to attack her. Voters will decide the fate of the high-profile Republican on Tuesday as the primary is held in Wyoming, one of the nation’s reddest states. “This is your chance to send a message to the RINOs (Republican in Name Only) and the fake media, the radical leftist lunatics, that unfortunately we have too many of them in our country, and you’re going to elect Harriet and you ‘I’ll tell the pro-war Liz Cheney — so bad, so negative — Liz, you’re fired,” Trump told viewers at a teleconference for Harriet Hageman on Monday. Read my colleague Maroosha Muzaffar’s full report:
Trump gloats over Liz Cheney’s loss before primary polls even open: ‘You’re fired’
Trump calls Liz Cheney ‘belligerent’ who is ‘so mean, so negative’ Johanna Chisholm August 16, 2022 11:45 am 1660646037
Speculation is mounting over whether a loss for Cheney could lead to a 2024 presidential bid
Speculation over whether Rep. Liz Cheney, a staunch anti-Trump Republican whose specter has been raised in recent months by televised Jan. 6 hearings — where she serves as vice chair on the House committee — could run for the top office of the nation in 2024. CBS’s Robert Costa, the network’s chief election and campaign correspondent, had this to say last night about the impact of the anti-Trump Republican’s potential loss in Wyoming and what it could mean for a presidential bid: “This is a moment of reckoning for the Republican Party,” Mr. Costa began. “Her political future is in flux. It faces a critical political.” “But it could make her, if she loses, something that usually doesn’t happen to a candidate when they lose a House race, which is a national campaign, a presidential campaign.” “She’s got a lot of money in the bank … she’s raised at least $13 million and that puts her in a position with a national fundraising base and national support from the anti-Trump wing of the Republican party.” “Would that be enough to win the nomination? Who knows at this point. It would be an uphill climb there too. But that’s the kind of thing he’s looking at.” Watch the full clip below: Johanna Chisholm August 16, 2022 11:33 am 1660643757
Peter Navarro Claims He Has ‘Circumstantial Evidence’ Cheney Will Try To Steal Absentee Ballots
Peter Navarro, a former Trump administration White House aide and top trade adviser, said during an appearance Monday night ahead of the Wyoming primary that he believes he has “circumstantial evidence” that Liz Cheney will try to “steal” the election in her state through what she describes as fake absentee ballots. “It would be ironic if Liz Cheney was found guilty tomorrow of trying to steal this election, but here’s the evidence and I think there’s pretty good evidence,” said Navarro, who has been ordered to stand trial on criminal contempt of Congress charges . after refusing to cooperate with the January 6 committee, of which Ms. Cheney is vice chair. Mr. Navarro then proceeded to show mailers sent by Cheney’s Wyoming campaign in recent weeks detailing how to request an absentee ballot. Nowhere on the form does it ask anyone to vote for Ms. Cheney, although the Wyoming secretary of state warned the Cheney campaign not to use “official election” language in campaign literature after the mailings were sent. Johanna Chisholm August 16, 2022 10:55 am 1660642200
