7. Liz Cheney
The battle ramps up.
Trump’s top vendetta this election season is against Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney for her role investigating his effort to overturn a presidential election. And since it’s his vendetta, it’s also, by and large, the party’s vendetta. The RNC joined the crusade to tank her reelection a couple of weeks ago. This week, a couple of other dominoes fell into place: The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy, endorsed Cheney’s central opponent, Harriet Hageman, in a statement that didn’t mention Cheney. New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who replaced Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican last year, also endorsed Hageman this week and did mention Cheney, referring to her as a “far-left Pelosi puppet.” Trump, personally, has been trying to get Wyoming to change its law allowing voters to change their party registration on primary day. In other words, he wants to be sure Wyoming Democrats won’t be able to bail Cheney out. Gov. Mark Gordon, so far, is noncommittal.
