Trump stages rally in Wyoming in bid to defeat Liz Cheney

Bloomberg

Former President Donald Trump ripped into Republican US Representative Liz Cheney at a rally in Wyoming, as part of his quest to defeat the incumbent who has emerged as his most vocal and active GOP critic.
“Few members of Congress in history have personally caused more damage and destruction to our Republican Party” than Cheney, he said. “She’s aided and abetted the radical Democrat Party in one of the most unhinged, lawless and dangerous witch hunts of all time,” referring to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.
The rally was held in Casper, Wyoming, in support of Harriet Hageman, whom Trump has endorsed in the August 16 GOP primary for the state’s lone congressional seat. Throughout his speech Trump repeatedly referred to Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, as a “Republican In Name Only,” or RINO.
“In many ways, worse than the terrible Democrats, are the backstabbing RINO Republicans who are helping them do their act,” Trump said. “There is no RINO in America who has thrown in her lot with the radical left more than Liz Cheney.”
Trump has targeted Cheney since she was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for his role in the
insurrection, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the counting of Electoral College votes for Joe Biden.
She further incurred the former president’s wrath by accusing him of threatening democracy with false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and serving as vice chair of the House committee investigating the insurrection.
Cheney officially filed for re-election, saying in a video posted online that she’s
asking for support because the Wyoming election matters and “this is a fight we must win.”
“If our generation does not stand for truth, the rule of law, and our constitution, if we set aside our founding principles for the politics of the moment, the miracle of our constitutional republic will slip away,” she said. “We must not let that happen.”