Harriet Hageman Plays Up ‘Rigged’ 2020 Election Claim in Victory Speech

Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, caught to her stance on the 2020 presidential election in her preliminary victory speech, reinforcing Trump’s allegations of a “rigged” election in entrance of the Cheyenne crowd.

“Wyoming has spoken out on behalf of everybody involved that the sport is turning into increasingly in opposition to them,” Hagman informed an excited crowd Tuesday night time.

Hageman efficiently ousted Representative Liz Cheney from her seat in the House of Representatives after profitable the Republican nomination for Greater Wyoming. The former Cheney aide is anticipated to go on to win the overall election in November, provided that Trump obtained greater than two-thirds of the vote in each the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

The GOP primaries had been largely seen as a referendum on Cheney, which many Wyoming voters argued did not signify when she break up from the Republican Party in the House of Representatives to vote for Trump’s impeachment in January 2021.

Hageman declared in her victory speech, “What Wyoming has proven right this moment is that whereas it is probably not straightforward, we will drive out entrenched politicians who imagine they’ve risen above the individuals they’re meant to signify.”

At the identical time, Trump made it his mission to make sure the congresswoman doesn’t see a fourth time period, rapidly leaping into the race to endorse Hageman, regardless of her previous criticism of the previous president throughout his 2016 marketing campaign.

This is an evolving story and can be up to date as extra data turns into obtainable.