Harriet Hageman will win the Republican nomination in Wyoming’s House race, CNN projects, defeating Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and helped lead the House investigation on Jan. 6. Hageman grew up on her family’s small ranch near Fort Laramie, population 207, not far from the state border with Nebraska. Long before her race against Cheney, Hageman gained notoriety as a natural resources lawyer, specializing in cases protecting the state’s water, public lands and agriculture. “One of the things, I think, we need to do is make the federal government largely irrelevant to our daily lives,” Hageman told voters this week during a lunch stop at the Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce. , highlighting decades of legal work against policies such as protection of gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act and broader plans to preserve national forests. Hageman, 59, spent most of her career doing that work at her own Cheyenne law office. But now, she’s senior legal counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a Washington-based group fighting environmental regulations, taxes and campaign finance restrictions. She has spent much of the last year driving across the state to build a campaign against Cheney, telling voters she has driven about 40,000 miles since announcing her campaign nearly a year ago. However, in the final week of the primary, he held no public campaign events but met privately with groups. Three other Republicans filled out the House primary ballot. With Cheney’s loss, only two of the 10 House Republicans who backed former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment — and have since been a constant target of his ire — won their primary races. Read more here.
