Liz Cheney announces her bid to challenge Mike Enzi for US Senate

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USA TODAY – Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter made it official and said she’ll challenge GOP Sen. Mike Enzi in Wyoming next year.

Liz Cheney, a former State Department official in George W. Bush’s administration, moved to Jackson Hole last year with her family and has been making the rounds at political events.

Enzi recently told The New York Times that Cheney told him she was “looking at” challenging him in a GOP primary next year.

Cheney made her announcement in a statement Tuesday, and the Associated Press confirmed with her campaign. Her decision to challenge Enzi, a three-term senator known for his work on health care issues, could rile Republicans in Wyoming.

The Cody Enterprise recently denounced Cheney’s aspirations in an editorial, saying there other Republicans in the state who have paid their political dues.

“It’ll be the end of her in Wyoming politics,” the newspaper editorial said. “But at 46 she has plenty of time. There’s a long list of good candidates around the state waiting for an appropriate opening to run for one of Wyoming’s eight statewide elective office. And even with her heady attributes, given her liabilities, plenty of them could beat her.”

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he knew Cheney was mulling a Senate bid but not know her announcement was coming Tuesday. He pledged the Senate GOP committee will be behind Enzi, a member of the so-called “Gang of Six” that tried to work out bipartisan health care legislation in 2009.


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