Liz gets deep ‘6’d

Anti-Don GOP rep. trounced in Wyo. primary

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was soundly beaten Tuesday by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman in a widely watched Republican primary showdown.

In a concession speech after losing by a roughly 30-point margin, the third-term congresswoman compared herself to Abraham Lincoln, spoke of the importance of honoring the outcome of elections and repeatedly took aim at former President Donald Trump, whom she had voted to impeach after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

“This is not a game. Every one of us must be committed to the eternal defense of this miraculous experiment called America,” Cheney said in the speech in Jackson, Wyo.

“And at the heart of our Democratic process are elections. They are the foundational principle of our constitution.”

The 56-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said she lost her congressional seat because of her refusal to support Trump’s 2020 electionfraud claims.

“Two years ago, I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could have easily done the same again,” Cheney said.

“The path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. That was a path that I could not and would not take.”

The congresswoman said no House seat is worth more than the principles US legislators are sworn to protect.

“Our republic relies on the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections,” said Cheney, who phoned Hageman to concede. “This primary election is over. But now the real work begins,” she added, hinting at a potential presidential run.

“The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” she said.

Cheney raked in campaign donations from Democrats around the nation, but her loss was widely anticipated and she becomes Trump’s top scalp in his revenge tour against the 10 House Republicans and seven Republican senators who voted to impeach and/or convict him of inciting last year’s Capitol riot.

“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” Trump wrote on his social media website.

“This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs. Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now.”

The 45th president repeatedly denounced Cheney as a “warmonger” during the campaign and urged voters to embrace his “America First” mantra instead of her more interventionist views on foreign policy — while Cheney returned fire, trashing Trump as a would-be dictator.

Cheney is the vice chair and de facto lead prosecutor of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and has played a leading role in narrating Trump’s actions leading up to that day — as well as his inaction during the violence.

“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible; there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” Cheney said in June.

Cheney told The Post in April 2021 that she may run for president, without specifying when that might happen. “I’m not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time,” she said.