(Headline USA) Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, who is challenging Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., for her House seat, has raised more than $1 million since launching her campaign, according to Fox News.
Hageman launched her campaign less than five months ago but brought in roughly $745,000 between Sept. 9 through the end of 2021. Since the start of this year, she has raised more than $250,000. More than half of these funds came from within Wyoming, Hageman’s campaign said.
“Wyoming deserves to be represented by someone who cares about Wyoming, not someone who is consumed by her own personal war with President Trump,” Hageman said in a statement. “I have been to all 23 counties in Wyoming, and I know that the people are desperate for a change.”
Cheney has come under fire from Republicans at home and in Washington, D.C. for her constant criticism of former President Donald Trump. She was one of the only Republicans to vote to impeach him after the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, and she was also one of only two Republicans to agree to sit on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., partisan Jan. 6 select-committee.
“We only get one House seat, and we can’t waste it on someone from Northern Virginia who does all of Nancy Pelosi’s dirty work to distract voters from Joe Biden’s disastrous administration,” Hageman said. “I am standing for Wyoming First and America First values, which is something that Liz Cheney cannot and will not say.”
In a straw poll among Republican delegates in Wyoming, Hageman won easily, taking 59 of the delegates’ votes while Cheney won only six votes.
“I think it’s a good sign. It’s not an endorsement, but these are the county activists,” Hageman said at the time.
Cheney, however, has downplayed Hageman’s successes thus far.
“The only elections that matter are in August and November,” Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said.
