Liz Cheney, who represents Wyoming in Congress, is the embodiment of the Republican establishment. The daughter of the former US Vice President Dick Cheney, she rose to be the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress and is famously conservative. In the past, she has consistently backed Trump in office, but now is one of his most vocal critics, attacking him for refusing to concede defeat in the 2020 election, and for his actions on January 6. ‘It’s a battle between the Trump Republican Party and the Republican Party of the past’, says Mary Kay Turner, a friend of the Cheney family. As she seeks her party’s nomination for a 4th term in Congress, Donald Trump is going all out to stop her. ‘The people of Wyoming are going to tell Liz Cheney, “you’re fired, get the hell out of here”’, he says at a recent rally. Some worry that Cheney’s role in the January 6th hearings are distracting her from local issues: ‘she’s been focused completely on the January 6th commission when people here are worried about the price of food at the grocery store, the price of gas at the gas pump’, says state politician Cheri Steinmetz.