Harriet Hageman, Backed by Trump, Wins Wyoming’s Republican Senate Primary

Representative Harriet Hageman, a close ally of President Trump’s, won the Republican primary race for Senate in Wyoming on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.

Ms. Hageman, who rose to prominence four years ago by defeating Representative Liz Cheney, will be an overwhelming general-election favorite in Wyoming, one of the most conservative states.

Ms. Hageman, 63, is running to replace Senator Cynthia Lummis, a retiring Republican. Ms. Lummis endorsed Ms. Hageman in January, describing her as a “real workhorse” and a strong champion for Mr. Trump’s agenda.

Ms. Hageman, a daughter of a state lawmaker, is campaigning on a pledge to fight what she casts as federal government overreach into water rights and private property rights in Wyoming. She was also endorsed by the Wyoming Republican Party and by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business lobbying group.

Mr. Trump endorsed her by late December, immediately establishing her as an all but prohibitive favorite in Wyoming. He carried the state by 46 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election, his largest margin of victory in any state.

In 2021, Mr. Trump supercharged the House candidacy of Ms. Hageman, a Cheyenne trial lawyer who had only a small political following before Mr. Trump backed her bid to unseat Ms. Cheney, one of his fiercest Republican critics.

Before her House run, Ms. Hageman had served as a Republican National Committee official, and also lost in a 2018 run for the Wyoming governorship. She once was an ally of Ms. Cheney’s and a critic of a Mr. Trump’s, even referring to him in 2016 as “racist and xenophobic,” but by 2020 had transformed into a fervent supporter.

After Mr. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, she amplified his false claims that the election had been rigged. She has called him the “greatest president” of her lifetime.

With Mr. Trump’s support, she thundered past Ms. Cheney in 2022, winning by more than 37 points. Ms. Cheney — whose father, Dick Cheney, was President George W. Bush’s powerful vice president — had become one of Mr. Trump’s top targets for retribution after she helped lead the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Ms. Hageman said Wyoming was “fed up with the Jan. 6 commission” and “fed up with Liz Cheney.”

Although Ms. Hageman’s primary race for Senate this year was not competitive, Mr. Trump continued to issue statements of support for her into the final month of the race, in which she faced a group of long-shot challengers.

“Harriet has ALWAYS delivered for Wyoming,” he wrote on social media in early August, “and will continue to do so in the United States Senate.”