
Harriet Hageman once rebuked Trump and endorsed Liz Cheney. She's now challenging her with his support
CNN
Harriet Hageman, who earned the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in her 2022 bid to challenge Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, once called her current opponent a "proven, courageous, constitutional conservative."
In a speech endorsing Cheney's 2016 congressional campaign Hageman attacked the "concerted efforts to force true conservatives to sit down and shut up," adding those efforts "have never worked on me and I know that they will not work on and have no effect on Liz Cheney."
The comments from Hageman, found by CNN's KFile in footage of the Wyoming Republican Party's convention that year, show the abrupt about-face from the Wyoming attorney, who received Trump's backing in the GOP primary against Cheney earlier this month. Once a leader of efforts to oppose Trump's nomination, she now calls Trump "the greatest president of my lifetime."