Obama, Hillary are funding for Liz Cheney in GOP Primary

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is running for reelection in Wyoming's Republican primary against Harriet Hageman, who has the support of President Trump. Many of the top Democrats are helping to pay for her campaign.

Polls show that Hageman has a huge lead with the primary coming up soon, and wealthy Americans have noticed that Cheney's chances of keeping her seat on August 16 are getting smaller. Donors from the establishment are coming out of the woodwork to protect one of their own, Cheney, who they think might lose because of a series of bad political decisions.

One of the most important donors to the Democrats, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, has given at least $43,000 to Cheney. Katzenberg has given money to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's campaigns for president. For unknown reasons, the full amount has not been made public.

In an interview with the New York Times, Katzenberg said, "We don't agree on much, if anything." "But she did something that very, very few people have ever done: she put her country ahead of her party and politics to defend our Constitution."

Dmitri Mehlhorn, a strategist who advises Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a Democrat donor, also backs Cheney's reelection campaign. Mehlhorn told the Times that Cheney is the most important politician in the United States right now.

Vint Cerf, a Google executive, Jane Fraser, the CEO of Citigroup, and Seth Klarman, a billionaire hedge fund manager in Boston who sees himself as more part of the establishment, are also donors to the Democrats.

Klarman told Times, "I strongly back Congresswoman Cheney's bid to stay in office." "I'm going to do everything I can to keep her in Congress and send a strong message. We need to back Liz and send a message to the most extreme parts of the Republican Party that they are wrong.

Cerf, a well-known Democrat donor and Cheney's friend, told the Times that he gave the candidate $2,900 "more as a sign of gratitude than anything else."

"When I saw how brave Liz Cheney was to stand up to a lot of pressure from other people in her party and say, "No, this is wrong," I was impressed enough to say, "You know what? She should be helped for that,'" Cerf said.

After Cheney's campaign started asking Democrats for votes last month, Democratic donors became interested in the Wyoming primary. Polls taken in May and June show that Cheney will lose to Hageman by 28 to 30 points. In an article called "Why Liz Cheney is in a lot of trouble in Wyoming," CNN said that the polling data was scary.
CNN's Harry Enten said, "We shouldn't mistake adoring press coverage and bipartisan credentials for popularity in Wyoming, where Cheney's popularity matters most." "When you look at the facts, it's clear that Cheney is the clear underdog in her bid to keep her seat."

During the election season, Cheney spent a lot of time helping Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) well-publicized committee hearings on January 6. On Thursday, Cheney accepted President Biden's invitation to watch the televised Medal of Freedom ceremony 1,711 miles away from Casper, Wyoming. A month before the election, it is rare for a Republican candidate to be seen at the White House, which is run by Democrats, and far from her home state.

The fact that Cheney hasn't been in the Cowboy State has been a big deal for voters. "She knows she has to campaign and earn the trust of voters," state Rep. Landon Brown (R) told the Times. "I would love to see her here more."

Cheney, on the other hand, has her own reasons to stay in Washington. Cheney told Republicans in Wyoming in February, "I'm not going to convince the crazy people, and I don't like the crazy people."

Hageman has disagreed with what Cheney said about the people of Wyoming. "Liz Cheney has been beaten in Wyoming. Liz Cheney is not a Wyoming resident. Hageman told Breitbart News, "She doesn't speak for us." "She doesn't represent our values."

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