Liz Cheney hauls in over $7 million last year as she fends off push by Trump to oust her from Congress

Repeated assaults by former President Donald Trump as he tries to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from Congress are fueling a large fundraising haul by the Republican lawmaker from Wyoming.

Chene — probably the most high-profile of the ten Home Republicans who voted simply over a yr in the past to impeach Trump for allegedly fanning the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol — on Monday reported bringing in over $7 million in fundraising final yr as she runs for reelection.

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The three-term conservative congresswoman’s 2021 haul consists of raking in over $2 million through the October-December fourth quarter of fundraising. The determine is her largest fundraising quarter ever, topping the $1.5 million, $1.9 million, and $1.7 million she raised through the first three fundraising quarters of final yr respectively. 

Cheney entered the brand new yr with a formidable conflict chest of $4.72 million money available. Her marketing campaign famous that they began 2021 with simply $150,000 of their coffers.

Cheney launched her fundraising figures a few hours after Harriet Hageman, the main Republican candidate difficult Cheney, introduced that she raised roughly $745,000 from her marketing campaign launch on Sept. 9 by way of the tip of 2021, in response to figures shared first with Fox Information. That determine included $443,460 raised up to now three months.

Hageman, who’s backed by Trump, additionally reported $381,163 money available on the finish of final yr.

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Cheney, a longtime vocal GOP Trump critic, was probably the most senior of the ten Home Republicans who voted to question the then-president on a cost of inciting the riot by Trump supporters who aimed to disrupt congressional certification of now-President Biden’s Electoral School victory within the 2020 election. 

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Rep. Cheney instantly got here underneath verbal assault from Trump and his allies, and final Could was ousted from her number-three Home GOP management place.

Cheney, who’s been very vocal in emphasizing the significance of defending the nation’s democratic course of and of placing nation earlier than occasion, is one in all solely two Republicans serving on a particular choose committee organized by Home Democrats to analyze the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Trump, stepping up his efforts to oust Cheney from Congress, endorsed Hageman as she entered the race. The previous president and his allies efficiently urged some, however not all, of the opposite anti-Cheney candidates to drop out of the first and coalesce round Hageman.

Hageman, a 2018 gubernatorial candidate who was a former Cheney supporter and adviser who donated to the congresswoman’s previous campaigns, reported elevating roughly $250,000 thus far within the new yr.

PayPal co-founder and billionaire enterprise capitalist Peter Thiel, who’s a Trump ally, hosted a top-dollar fundraiser for Hageman final week in Florida, which included an look from Donald Trump Jr.

The previous president is anticipated to journey to Wyoming in late Could to headline a rally on behalf of Hageman.

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A supply with data of the Cheney marketing campaign tells Fox Information that the congresswoman has simply topped $250,000 in fundraising thus far in 2022.

Former President George W. Bush, and former Republican Home Audio system John Boehner and Paul Ryan, have helped increase marketing campaign money for Cheney. And Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and a vocal Republican Trump critic, will headline a fundraiser for Cheney in March.