Liz Cheney is ending her bid for Wyoming Senate and her primary challenge against Mike Enzi. That was quick. While I’m not fan of Mike Enzi, a Liz Cheney in the Senate would worry me. While I have a lot of respect for Liz Cheney, I’d worry she’d be a John McCain/Kelly Ayotte type who always wants to go to war for the Muslims who hate us anyway. Enzi lead Cheney by as much as 53 percentage points in some polls and never gain traction. Now, Enzi will be on his way to an easy re-election as no progressive liberal Democrat has a snowball’s chance in hell in Wyoming.
CNN:
Liz Cheney, whose upstart bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of warfare in the Republican Party and even within her own family, is dropping out of the Senate primary, sources told CNN late Sunday.
Cheney, the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, began telling associates of her decision over the weekend and could make an official announcement about the race as early as Monday.
Cheney’s surprising decision to jump into the race, an announcement made in a YouTube video last summer, roiled Republican politics in the Wyoming, a state Dick Cheney represented in Congress for five terms before moving up the Republican food chain in Washington.
Enzi was a low-key presence in Washington who was elected in 1996 and, with few blemishes, amassed a conservative voting record in the Senate. He expressed public annoyance at Cheney’s decision to mount a primary challenge. A number of his Senate colleagues quickly rallied to his side and pledged support for his re-election bid.