Wednesday's Wonderful Absurdities: Liz Cheney Won't Have to Pretend to be From Wyoming Anymore
This tweet cracked me up:
In fairness to Costner, whose show “Yellowstone” I really like, his dumb endorsement of Liz Cheney had no real impact on her re-election bid. She was already well dead politically long before he donned that ugly t-shirt.
The results of the vote bear that reality out quite starkly:
That 37% margin of victory for winner Harriet Hageman was miles bigger than the 25-30% edge the polls were projecting, and that was even with thousands of Wyoming Democrats voting for Cheney in the GOP primary.
Donald Trump, Jr. had perhaps the best response to Cheney’s resounding defeat in this tweet:
While one hates to imagine any positives out of this for such a repugnant, war-mongering political snake, it is true that Liz will now never have any real reason to visit her fake home state again. She can just hang out in her real home of Virginia and look for work as a lobbyist for defense contractors and/or Ukraine.
Politico has a good piece out this morning detailing how the Trump team systematically ran Cheney from office:
“An unusually disciplined strategy,” the Democrat operative writers describe the Trump team’s effort. Hilarious.
Here’s an excerpt:
Last July, Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman drove seven hours from her home in Cheyenne to Jackson to meet with a major donor who wanted her to wage a primary campaign against Donald Trump’s top nemesis, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney.
When Hageman arrived for the breakfast meeting the following morning, she was greeted by a surprise guest: former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Hageman had heard from an array of Wyoming Republicans urging her to take on Cheney. But Meadows was dialing up the pitch, making the case for Hageman to jump in and putting her on the phone with Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, another staunch Trump ally who reinforced the point. After leaving the breakfast, Meadows called Trump and encouraged him to meet with the soon-to-be candidate, according to a person familiar with the discussion.
The episode illustrates Trump’s all-encompassing role in the effort to oust Cheney, which culminated Tuesday in a lopsided primary defeat for the congresswoman. Hageman ran with Trump’s support, was advised by Trump’s lieutenants, and was funded by his donors. Trump aides vetted and interviewed Cheney’s prospective challengers with a degree of care the operation didn’t display in other big midterm races. Once they settled on their pick, they cleared the field of Hageman’s primary rivals. Then, the team formed an outside group that was heavily funded by Trump’s PAC, which ran TV ads starring the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
It was an unusually disciplined effort by Trump’s political orbit — a far-flung, often chaotic constellation of operatives whose disorganization, fueled by Trump’s impulsiveness, has often impeded their attempts to influence campaigns. This time, the well-organized Trump forces swamped Cheney, who by the end appeared less focused on surviving her reelection fight than embracing a high-profile national role as a Trump critic.
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Go read the rest of it - lots of good insights there in between all the anti-Trump propaganda.
And yes, Cheney will now become a “Trump critic” with a high national profile, but only because her new-found friends in the anti-Trump media will give her all the free print and air-time she could ever desire.
Here are the hacks at Mediaite, essentially admitting the conspiracy:
Despicable hacks hang together, you know.
Let’s move on…
The bad news from last night is that it looks as if Alaska RINO Lisa Murkowski is going to survive yet again. Murkowski came in first in the state’s goofy ranked-voting “jungle primary” system yesterday with 44% of the vote, 4 points ahead of fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also advances to a ranked-voting runoff in her bid to become Alaska’s lone member of the House:
Now, this is where the process gets very weird. Here’s how NBC News describes what happens next:
In ranked-choice elections, voters identify their first choice on ballots, then rank the other candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes on the first count, the election moves to an instant runoff. The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and ballots cast for that candidate are recast for the voter’s second choice. The process repeats until a candidate reaches a majority.
Tuesday's special election will decide who finishes Young's term. Tuesday's primary will determine which four candidates will compete for a full two-year term in the at-large seat that begins next year.
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The Anchorage Daily News describes what happens next in Murkowski’s race:
Both candidates, along with third place finisher Democrat Pat Chesbro with 6.2% of the vote so far, are expected to advance to the November general election under Alaska’s new voting laws that eliminated partisan primaries. The top four vote-getters in the open primary will advance to a ranked-choice general election.
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Ridiculous. Ridiculous enough to allow Murkowski to serve another 6-year term in all likelihood.
My goodness.
In other news, elder-abusing nominal first lady Jill Biden is twice-vaxxed and twice-boosted like her sock puppet husband. Also like her sock puppet husband, she still managed to contract COVID-19:
These aren’t “vaccines,” folks, they’re therapeutic treatments, and barely even that.
Doesn’t seem like anyone would even have to point this out:
Just a reminder that Irish Bob O’Rourke is a horrible political candidate:
The dude has all Hollywood money, the New York money and the Soros money on his side; he also has the Texas news media serving as his fan boys and girls, and he still can’t crack 40% in the latest DMN-UT poll.
This is a 10-point election for Abbott so long as the Texas grid holds.
That is all.