Trump-backed Republican who kicked Liz Cheney out of Congress seeks higher office in reddest state

Nypost · Aug 19, 2026 · 373 words · By Fox News

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Harriet Hageman, R-Wy., on Tuesday as their nominee for US Senate in the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen.

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Claim 1: “President Donald Trump endorsed Hageman after also backing her successful 2022 campaign to unseat former Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming’s Republican House primary.”

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Multiple sources confirm Donald Trump endorsed Hageman for the Senate and backed her 2022 campaign to defeat Liz Cheney.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Wyoming will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Wyoming. Republican congresswoman Harriet Ha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 3, 2026, with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections. In these elections, voters will elect…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Harriet Maxine Hageman (born October 18, 1962) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district since 2023. She is the Republican…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hageman

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Claim 2: “Wyoming Republicans chose Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wy., on Tuesday as their nominee for US Senate in the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis.”

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Multiple independent web sources and Wikipedia confirm that Harriet Hageman won the Republican nomination for the US Senate to succeed Cynthia Lummis.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district. The election coincided…
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Claim 3: “Now serving her second term as Wyoming’s lone US House member”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm Hageman has served as Wyoming's lone US House member since 2023; one source explicitly mentions she is serving her second term.

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Claim 4: “For the first time in 32 years, the state has open races for governor, US Senate and US House in the same election cycle.”

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Claim 5: “Hageman will now face the Democratic nominee in the Nov. 3 general election”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that the 2026 United States Senate election in Wyoming will be held on November 3, 2026.

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Claim 6: “Hageman emerged from a five-way Republican primary featuring former Kirby Mayor Sam Mead, Jill Edwards, John Holtz and former environmental services business owner Jimmy Skovgard.”

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While other sources confirm Hageman won the primary against four opponents, the specific names of the other candidates (Sam Mead, Jill Edwards, John Holtz, and Jimmy Skovgard) are not corroborated by the provided evidence; the web search results for this claim returned irrelevant content about golf clubs.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Wyoming gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Wyoming. Republican state senator Eric Barlow and Democratic perennial candidate Kenneth Casner are t…
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Claim 7: “The ousted Wyoming congresswoman, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney”

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Multiple independent news sources confirm that Liz Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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web search NEUTRAL — Liz Cheney is an establishment Republican and career politician, who is the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney. (AP: J Scott Applewhite). Cheney hails from Wyoming, a deep red state that we…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-06/liz-cheney-and-marjor…

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web search NEUTRAL — The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was an ascendant Republican leader before the Jan.Liz Cheney famously broke with her family in 2013 by opposing gay marriage ahead of a failed Senate …
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web search NEUTRAL — Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.,) daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is still awful.A former president, who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election, has resumed his…
https://medium.com/left-of-center/liz-cheney-is-still-awful-…

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Claim 8: “Cheney became Trump’s biggest target in 2022 after she served as one of the only two Republicans on the House Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots alongside fellow GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-IL”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant Reddit threads about Bing quizzes and does not address the House Committee on January 6.

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Claim 9: “Lummis, elected to the Senate in 2020 after serving four terms in the US House, announced she would not seek a second term”

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Web search results and Wikipedia confirm Cynthia Lummis was elected to the Senate in 2020, served four terms in the House, and announced she will not seek a second Senate term in 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 United States Senate election in Wyoming was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Wyoming, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. preside…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn ( LUH-miss; born September 10, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Wyoming since 2021. A member of the Republ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Lummis

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Claim 10: “All of the state’s statewide elected offices are currently held by Republicans.”

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No evidence was provided or found regarding the party affiliation of all statewide elected offices in Wyoming.

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Claim 11: “The at-large seat is ranked by the bipartisan Cook Political Report as solidly Republican with a R+23”

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No evidence was provided or found regarding the Cook Political Report ranking for this specific seat.

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