Bad blood: Rand Paul moves to thwart a Liz Cheney Senate run

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I have not kept track of the Repugs-and their goings on! This is interesting.




Bad blood: Rand Paul moves to thwart a Liz Cheney Senate run


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/22/rand-paul-liz-cheney-senate-wyoming-1506603

The Hatfields and McCoys of the GOP are at it again.

By BURGESS EVERETT and MELANIE ZANONA

09/22/2019 06:48 AM EDT


Rand Paul began his offensive against Liz Cheney as soon as a Senate seat opened up in May, reigniting a yearslong feud between their families and warring wings of the Republican Party.

The Kentucky senator made contact with Cynthia Lummis, a former conservative House member, to encourage her to run for the Senate seat available in Wyoming now that Mike Enzi is set to retire.

Lummis jumped into the race, leaving Cheney, her successor in Congress, with a tough choice: Embark on a brutal primary campaign against Lummis or take the safer route and seek her fortune in House leadership.

That was only the beginning of Paul’s slugfest with Cheney, one that included a fierce back-and-forth over Twitter on foreign policy, dueling Sunday-show appearances and a highly unusual phone call from Paul to a Casper, Wyo., TV station to assert that Wyoming Republicans are “tired” of Cheney’s support for nation-building abroad.

Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican and in just her second term, responded with her own show of strength. She said she was looking forward to having dinner with President Donald Trump that evening...............................





Sen. Rand Paul has backed former Rep. Cynthia Lummis for Wyoming’s open Senate seat. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images





Rep. Liz Cheney has risen quickly in the House, and at times staked out more conservative territory than Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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1. A couple of things.

She's #3 with less than 4 years in office. That says a lot about them.

She won a Congressional district in 2018 with 127,963 votes (63.6%) of 201,245.
2016 156,716 (62%) of 251,776 --- in 2016 she won the primary with 39.9% of the vote. Looks like everyone runs in the primary there.


But hey, she looks happy.



https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Wyoming,_2020

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2. With Any Luck, They'll Take Each Other Out

Both of them are the absolute worst.