"Liz, You're About to Get Fired!" ... Cheney Looks Poised to Lose in Wyoming

Liz Cheney looks poised to lose her House seat to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman in Wyoming's primary Tuesday - as ex-president calls into tele-rally and says 'the whole world is watching'

• Former President Donald Trump's top critic in the House - Rep. Liz Cheney - seems poised to lose her seat as voters head to the polls Tuesday in Wyoming 
• In a final poll in the run-up to Republican primary day, Cheney was behind the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman by 29 points 
• Trump threw his whole weight behind the race - vowing to get revenge on Cheney, especially for her participation in the January 6 committee On election eve, Trump called into a tele-rally for Hageman and called the race 'one of the most critical primary elections in the history of our country' 
• 'The whole world is watching this one,' the former president said 

Former President Donald Trump's top critic in the House - Rep. Liz Cheney - seems poised to lose her seat as voters head to the polls Tuesday in Wyoming. 

In a final poll in the run-up to Republican primary day, Cheney was behind the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman by 29 points - with University of Wyoming pollsters even accounting for Democrats and independents who might switch parties to vote for her. 

Trump threw his whole weight behind the race - vowing to get revenge for Cheney's criticism, impeachment vote and top role on the House select committee on January 6. 

On election eve, Trump called into a tele-rally for Hageman and called the race 'one of the most critical primary elections in the history of our country.' 

'The whole world is watching this one,' the former president said. 

He called Hageman - who was critical of Trump during his 2016 election and supported Sen. Ted Cruz - a 'person I've gotten to know very well' and a 'friend.' 

Then he turned his attention to Cheney.  

'This is your chance to send a message to the RINOs and the fake news media, the radical left lunatics, that we have unfortunately too many in our country, and you're going to elect Harriet, and you're going to tell warmonger Liz Cheney - so bad, so negative - Liz, you're fired,' Trump said. 

Trump said that 'few members of Congress in history have personally caused more damage to our republic than Liz Cheney.' 

The Trump-backed lawyer Harriet Hageman (left) looks poised to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney (right), as voters in Wyoming head to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state's Republican primary. The winner of the race will almost certainly win the election in November, in the ultra-red state 

Former President Donald Trump (center) held a rally for Harriet Hageman (left) in late May and called into a tele-rally for her Monday night where he railed against Rep. Liz Cheney 

A hand-painted sign in Casper, Wyoming that stands in opposition to the re-election of Rep. Liz Cheney, the most prominent GOP Trump critic in the House of Representatives 

Another anti-Liz Cheney sign appeared on a billboard outside Cheyenne. Polling last week showed Cheney 29 points down in the pivotal primary race 

'The Democrats use her for sound bites, they like to say "Republican Liz Cheney" and then they go into these horrendous anti-Republican, anti-country sound bites,' Trump said. 'It's been a disaster.'

'She's aided and abetted the radical Democrat Party in their unhinged, lawless and dangerous witchhunt - a witchhunt that never ends,' the former president complained. 

He added that Cheney's pushed a 'phony' and 'grotesquely false and fabricated hysterical partisan narrative' about what happened on January 6. 

Cheney is one of just two Republicans serving on the House select committee on January 6 - and the only one running for re-election in a political atmosphere that hasn't been hospitable to anti-Trump GOP candidates. 

She's paid a price - losing her No. 3 leadership position in the House Republican Conference and was expelled by Wyoming's Republican Party, as the state's voters in 2020 had voted Trump over President Joe Biden by about 43 points.  

Harriet Hageman (right) campaigns alongside Donald Trump Jr. (left) in June in Jackson, Wyoming 

Harriet Hageman (center) talks to supporters at a campaign event in early March, alongside Republican Sen. Rand Paul (right) 

Hageman has been doing the typical gripping-and-grinning associated with winning an election.

She held a rally with Trump in late May, and appeared alongside Donald Trump Jr. in June. She'll hold an election night event in Cheyenne. 

'You have been the best president in my lifetime in addressing the regulatory burden we deal with,' she told Trump after he delivered remarks on the call Monday night. 

That specific praise comes from her career as a lawyer, often fighting government regulations and environmentalists.

Hageman has also embraced Trump's election claims, which he continued to go on about in the Monday night call, saying that Democrats don't want voter ID laws 'because they want to cheat.' 

'Because that's what they do,' Trump grumbled. 

"I quickly realized that the allegations against President Trump were untrue,' she told the paper. 

'He was the greatest president of my lifetime, and I am proud to have been able to renominate him in 2020. And I’m proud to strongly support him today,' the House hopeful added.