July 19, 2022 |
Another day, another poll that puts Liz Cheney far behind Harriet Hageman in the primary race for Wyoming’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A poll out on Monday from WPA Intelligence/Club for Growth puts Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman 28 points head of Cheney.
According to the poll, 59 percent of likely primary voters supported Hageman while only 31 percent chose the establishment candidate.
The 60/30 split includes Democrats who plan to cross party lines in the primary in a last-ditch effort to defy the politician they really oppose—Donald Trump. NBC’s Marc Caputo reports that the poll results published Monday are based on a model in which 13 percent of primary voters are Democrats. Wyoming allows party-switchers in the primary. The poll tested two other scenarios where Democrats are 20 and 25 percent of the electorate. Cheney still trailed by 18 or 12 points in those models.
Cheney has been unable to convince Wyoming Republicans despite the large sums of money she is throwing at the election, mostly from out-of-state Democrats and establishment Republicans. Cheney ended the fundraising quarter that ended June 30th with nearly $7 million in her war chest to Hageman’s $1.4 million. Cheney also spent nearly twice as much as Hageman over the quarter.
Monday’s poll was commissioned by the Hageman campaign. Reports about the poll did not include fundamentals, like margin of error, number of people surveyed or when the survey was conducted. Like previous polls, though, it showed Cheney trailing Hageman by a wide margin.
Photos courtesy Harriet Hageman, Liz Cheney/Facebook.
