How Hageman beat Cheney

[BabyBoomer50s]

The next Congresswoman from Wyoming tells Washington Examiner’s Byron York how she slaughtered Liz Cheney. Spoiler Alert: It’s not what out of state media and pundits are still telling themselves.
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How did she beat Cheney?
Two reasons. "One is, I'm a good candidate, and I'm going to be a good member of Congress," Hageman said. The other was: Hageman ran a race centered on Wyoming. She discussed her 30-plus years as an attorney working on "water and natural resources issues, property rights, constitutional rights" representing the state's ranchers, farmers, energy producers, and more. "I have been fighting for Wyoming," Hageman said. "I wasn't just running against Liz Cheney, which I think is what some people, especially back in D.C., might think. I was running for Wyoming. I was running to address the issues that are important to us." That's how to win in Wyoming.

Democrats for Cheney? Very few Democrats voted in Democratic primary
"The final vote tally was 113,000 and some change for me and 49,000 and some change for Liz Cheney," Hageman explained. "There were almost no Democrats who voted in the Democrat primary. The woman who came out of the Democrat primary for the congressional race received less than 5,000 votes. ... So there was quite a bit of crossover. ... I wouldn't be surprised if a substantial portion of her voters were not Republicans at all but were Democrats."

But the much bigger problem, as Hageman sees it, was that Cheney had become disconnected from Wyoming. She was seldom in the state, Hageman said, and "never answered for her votes, never answered for the decisions she made, and simply abandoned Wyoming. I think what it exposed was that she had used Wyoming for the last six years as a mechanism to get power, but she didn't actually represent Wyoming's interests."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/harriet-hageman-how-i-beat-liz-cheney

 

[ll74]

Step 1: claim the election was stolen
Step 2: blame Cheney
Step 3: kiss 45s ass
Step 4: have no policy except blaming the opposition for everything wrong

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Step 1: claim the election was stolen
Step 2: blame Cheney
Step 3: kiss 45s ass
Step 4: have no policy except blaming the opposition for everything wrong

Thanks for providing this synopsis of the out of state narrative.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

None of what you posted was a spoiler, Hageman said what we already knew and was covered in the previous thread.
Cheney distanced herself from her own state because she was in it for more. Whether that is a good strategy will play out in the polls.

 

[ll74]

Thanks for providing this synopsis of the out of state narrative.

That is the story. Making her into a better candidate for Wyoming Republicans is the bullshit

 

[icanhelp1]

That is the story. Making her into a better candidate for Wyoming Republicans is the bullshit

Having the right message is what campaigning is all about, make your constituent’s needs a primary focus rather than party loyalty and it’s a formula for winning.

 

[ll74]

Having the right message is what campaigning is all about, make your constituent’s needs a primary focus rather than party loyalty and it’s a formula for winning.

Feel free to provide polling. Her only message was about 45....and that's what they voted for.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

That is the story. Making her into a better candidate for Wyoming Republicans is the bullshit

Thanks for your Midwest perspective cowboy. You’ve been ignoring the work she’s done for Wyoming for decades ever since Liz was dealt her crushing defeat.

 

[ll74]

Thanks for your Midwest perspective cowboy. You’ve been ignoring the work she’s done for Wyoming for decades ever since Liz was dealt her crushing defeat.

She's a lawyer. Keep praising her. You'll forget her once she does nothing.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Yes, practicing law in Wyoming on behalf of Wyoming interests, unlike Liz who is also a lawyer, but she practiced law for NYC-based White & Case and at the DC-based International Finance Corporation. Keep thrashing. This is fun!

She's a lawyer. Keep praising her. You'll forget her once she does nothing.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Well I don't generally agree with what Mr. multi-user-name up there says, but I think he does have a point that by focusing on local issues relevant to his home state, Hageman was better able to connect to people within her home state. Wyoming's economy is very dependant on extraction of natural resources, and focusing on those things may be a better way to connect to voters than focusing on things at the national level.

Now, I am not suggesting that this was the ONLY reason Hageman won. Clearly, there was some Trump-influenced bias there. But I don't think that was the only thing voters looked at when choosing Hageman. I think her campaign strategy of focusing on Wyoming industry- mining, oil, ranching, etc- was probably at least as much of a factor as a Trump endorsement.

 

[ll74]

Yes, practicing law in Wyoming on behalf of Wyoming interests, unlike Liz who is also a lawyer, but she practiced law for NYC-based White & Case and at the DC-based International Finance Corporation. Keep thrashing. This is fun!

You're praising her because she beat Cheney.....that's the only reason you know she exists. Quit pretending otherwise. Cheney was number 3 in leadership...Hageman will be forgotten by 2023. And when she fails to sponsor any of the bills that support natural resources or Wyoming's interests, you'll disregard this post and move along.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

You're praising her because she beat Cheney.....that's the only reason you know she exists. Quit pretending otherwise. Cheney was number 3 in leadership...Hageman will be forgotten by 2023. And when she fails to sponsor any of the bills that support natural resources or Wyoming's interests, you'll disregard this post and move along.

You and Liz should try finding Wyoming on the map.

 

[ll74]

You and Liz should try finding Wyoming on the map.

I'm good on geography. Thanks.

When you're done celebrating the downfall of a hardline Republican, maybe find conservatism again.

 

[colddiesel]

Hageman is a nonentity and thus an entirely appropriate candidate for Wyoming.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Amusing.

A nonentity.

How bad must Liz Cheney with her family name, connections and funding, feel being beaten by a nonentity!
Could it possibly be that the people of Wyoming have gotten to know her and rejected her, even going so far as to choose someone not known nationally, you know, outside of the confines of her home state, out of the 24/7 CNN/MSNBC spotlight and all the McCain-style fawning the National (D) press devotes to Republicans who attack their own party, even thought they will never, ever vote for them...