Cheney goes down in 30-point horror diveas Mar a Lago ploy fails to save anti-Trumper

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, suffered a humiliating 30-point rout in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed by the former president in a defeat that reinforced his grip on the party’s base.

Trump’s backing gave Harriet Hageman considerable lift in the state where he won by the largest margin during the 2020 campaign.

Staged shortly before the primary, which would be seen as a referendum on Congress's handling of the Jan. 6 inquiry, was a bizarre FBI raid on the former president's Mar a Lago estate that saw him painted as involved in espionage over possession of some presidential records. Joe Biden's attorney general had authorized the raid, purportedly without informing Biden first of such an important decision.

If the Biden-Garland bunch had been hoping that such a dramatic "national security" move would discredit Trump in the public eye sufficiently so save Cheney -- who had targeted Trump as instigating an "insurrection" from her GOP seat on the J6 panel -- their hopes went down ingloriously in flames yesterday as voters gave Cheney as hard a boot as could be imagined.

Oddly, she's thinking of running for president.