Liz Cheney blasts main opponents for 2020 election uncertainties in new advert

Cami Mondeaux

July 27, 08:31 AM July 27, 08:31 AM

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is employing her GOP major challengers' words and phrases against them in a new Tv set advertisement established to air as a result of the remaining weeks of her principal marketing campaign.

The ad, launched Tuesday, options a compilation of her Republican opponents boosting doubts about the 2020 election all through a June debate, with Cheney making an attempt to distance herself amid her toughest reelection bid. The spot builds on prior campaign adverts from Cheney as she seeks to paint her Trump-backed opponents as perilous to democracy.

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"We've received to elect serious leaders. We have to elect leaders who will choose their oath of place of work significantly, leaders who is not going to simply just say what they feel people today want to listen to," Cheney, who voted in favor of the 2nd effort to impeach previous President Donald Trump subsequent the Jan. 6 riot, said in the closing of the ad.

The ad starts with challenger Harriet Hageman, whom Trump endorsed, raising “serious inquiries about the 2020 election.” Hageman built the comments in the course of a GOP key debate on June 30, which prompted a tense back again-and-forth in between her and Cheney.

At one particular point throughout the debate, Cheney challenged Hagemen to admit the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. When she did not give a immediate response, Cheney chastised her for remaining “completely beholden” to Trump.

That advert continues with equivalent election-denying reviews from principal challengers point out Sen. Anthony Bouchard and businesswoman Robyn Belinskey.

The ad comes at a crucial place of the primary cycle, with Wyoming voters established to head to the polls for the key election on Aug. 16. Cheney has led in fundraising, raking in $13 million more than the key cycle when compared to just $3.8 million from top challenger Hageman. But Hageman has led the incumbent in in-point out fundraising, with the bulk of Cheney's donors residing outdoors Wyoming, according to the latest facts.

Cheney, initial elected in 2016, faces an uphill fight to protect her seat in November as polls show her trailing behind Hageman by 22 points, according to a poll by the Casper Star-Tribune.

Cheney’s chances of staying reelected have been specially rocky at any time since she voted to impeach Trump in 2021, becoming a member of just 9 other Residence Republicans in executing so. The incumbent’s involvement with the Jan. 6 select committee, wherever she serves as vice chairwoman, has deepened the wedge among her and the Trump wing of the bash.