Saturday 28 May 2022 08:31 PM Wyoming voters turn on Cheney as Trump heads to Casper to rally for primary ... trends now
Wyoming residents at a diner in Casper are overwhelmingly in support of Representative Liz Cheney's GOP primary rival Harriet Hageman – but there were at least two men who said they weren't turning on their current congresswoman.
Robert Morris, 73, a local of Casper, told DailyMail.com on Saturday that 'Liz is a real Republican' and said he would be voting for her in the August primary elections in Wyoming.
The former engineer said he is a 'registered Republican', but voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
'Just everything he [Donald Trump] did turned me off. I mean, I didn't think much of Hillary Clinton either, but I voted for her rather than him,' Morris said while dining with a friend at the bar at Johnny J's Diner in Casper, Wyoming.
Married couple Ed, 64, and Liz, 63, felt differently.
'I'm gonna support Hageman,' Ed told DailyMail.com on Saturday hours before Trump is set to appear on stage to rally for the candidate he is backing against Cheney.
'I'm pretty disappointed in Liz Cheney's whole – just kind of everything that's going on,' Ed continued. 'She seems to have kind of lost her way. And I don't know if, I guess it's Trump loathing or something. I don't know. She just does not seem to me like she's American.'
Thousands of Trump supporters arrived at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper on Saturday to rally for candidate Harriet Hageman, who is taking on anti-Trump GOP Representative Liz Cheney in the August primary election
Several Wyoming residents at Johnny J's Diner on Saturday told DailyMail.com that they will vote for Hageman – but not because of Trump's endorsement. Billboards around Casper urged voters to 'Ditch Liz!'
The couple, who were dining with a third woman who is attending the rally Saturday, said that they voted for Cheney in all of her previous elections, but will not be recasting a ballot for her in the primaries on August 16, 2022.
But Liz said their ballot for Hageman has nothing to do with Trump's endorsement of the trial lawyer.
'I'm voting for Hageman, not because of Trump though,' she said. 'I'm voting because I don't believe in Liz Cheney.
'So it's different, for me it isn't about coattails or anything like that.'
While it's unclear where Republicans want Trump in the party, the former president has proven he has coattails. So far in the 2022 primary races, his success rate is at 68.4 percent with 13 wins, six loses and two heading to a runoff.
Her husband agreed: 'It's not because of Trump versus Cheney. It's all the stuff that – the disappointment that I have with Cheney.
'It wouldn't have mattered to me whether Trump endorsed her or not. I think Hageman is
