“The Cheney fundraising surge continues, and the Wyoming congresswoman set a record for the second time in a row,” the headline reads.

It is worth noting that Fox News was the first to obtain this information. On the surface, although Cheney has criticized former Republican President Donald Trump, Cheney seems to want the conservative audience of the network to know that she is still a viable candidate.

Cheney has become a spokesperson for the anti-Trump movement in her party. She found herself in a struggle to determine the future of the Republican Party and whether to include the former president. She is one of the few elected Republicans willing to oppose Trump in a battle to deeply divide the members of the party.

She is one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting violence against the government when Trump attacked the Capitol on January 6 Statements and lies led Democrat Joe Biden to take office.

Although she broke her own fundraising record, her words and deeds caused a serious impact in her hometown.

CBC News recently traveled to Wyoming to find out what voters there really think about Cheney and her efforts to shape the future of the Republican Party.

“Wherever you look, there is a banner of Donald Trump”

In the 2020 presidential election, Trump won Wyoming with nearly 70% of the vote. The voters here are considered the most conservative voters in the country.

“Wherever you look, there is a banner of Donald Trump. It is everywhere. How could it be possible? [Cheney] Doesn’t support Donald Trump and claim that she supports the people of Wyoming? Carl Milner said he was a veteran who operated gun shooting ranges and community gardens for other veterans in Gillette.

Republican lawmakers in the state voted to condemn Cheney immediately after the impeachment vote. Before the 2022 midterm elections, six challengers have appeared, trying to replace her as the Republican candidate in her hometown.

Her colleagues in Washington, DC voted to remove her from the position of the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives.

Trump’s supporter Milner said he hopes to see a new Republican candidate run for the House of Representatives in next year’s campaign. He also said that he thought Cheney hadn’t done enough with veterans like him.

“She is a work,” he said in an interview with CBC News at an outdoor shooting range on the outskirts of the town.

The big lie still exists

Cheney followed in the footsteps of her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney (Dick Cheney), who entered federal politics in 2016, who had held this position under the leadership of George W. Bush.

She easily won the House of Representatives seat her father had decades ago.

She supported traditional conservative thinking, including social issues and tax policies, and advocated for the energy industry in Wyoming for most of her time in Congress. She hopes that her party will continue along this path-without any involvement of Trump.

In February of this year, Cheney was asked about Trump’s speech at a gathering of conservative lawmakers and advocates called CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.

She said at the press conference: “I have already understood what I think of President Trump and the extent to which I think he should not play a role in the future of the party or the country after January 6.” The meeting.

Cheney’s words have not been well received by many Trump supporters in Wyoming.

Watch | National report from Wyoming:

Republican Senator Liz Cheney was once popular in her hometown of Wyoming, but her outspokenness to former US President Donald Trump turned her into a polarizing figure. 3:23

“As a Republican, she is what you call a traitor,” retired business owner Tom Elsbury said in an interview at a busy food truck party in Cheyenne.

“She opposes her president. She opposes her country.”

Although the theft of the 2020 presidential election is not true, Lies continue to affect voters and candidates.

Darin Smith, one of the candidates who tried to replace Cheney as the Republican candidate, said: “I can use less circumstantial evidence than the circumstantial evidence of large-scale fraud in the election that we have to prove. In the death row.”

Smith is a lawyer who competed with Cheney for the Republican nomination in 2016, but lost.

CBC News pressured Smith to ask if he really believed that the presidential election was stolen, and he insisted.

“I think there was massive fraud in this election,” he said.

Beat the unicorn

Winning back the Republican base in Wyoming may be a challenge for Cheney, no matter how much money she can raise. However, she seems to be fighting for voters who traditionally do not support her.

“When she stood up for the Constitution, she won all my respect,” said Heather Blakely, a registered Democrat. Teacher Xia An described herself as a political unicorn, a progressive voter in such a conservative state.

“As a Democrat in Wyoming, I support her 100% because she did the right thing.”

Blakely said that if she continues to serve as the Republican candidate, she will vote for Cheney.

Winning the votes of the political unicorn will not allow Cheney to go far in her hometown.

However, she still has no apologies for her efforts to shape the future of the Republican Party.

Judging by her current fundraising figures, there is no sign that she will change direction.