Date uploaded: 2021-09-22 16:06:25

Come next summer, Wyoming voters will go to the polls in the GOP primary. That's the moment they will either affirm the GOP’s allegiance to former President Donald Trump by voting out Rep. Liz Cheney or rebuke the former president by siding with her. Like Republicans across the nation, the group is debating the future of the GOP in a post-Trump universe. Nearly a year after he left office, the former president still casts a long shadow over the party – nowhere perhaps as long as in Wyoming, where Cheney is fighting to keep her seat even as her anti-Trump message turns off some voters. Wyoming voters, a tiny fraction of the country's electorate, will be tasked with deciding a 2022 midterm race that has drawn the national spotlight. Trump has vowed to unseat Cheney and the nine other House Republicans who voted to impeach him – one of which, Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, has already dropped out. It's a race with big consequences in the country's least-populous state, where it can feel like a vote carries more weight. Photo: Jim Bourg-Pool // @gettyimages, @hannahgoeseverywhere // USA TODAY, Michael Ciaglo // @gettyimages Video: @hannahgoeseverywhere // USA TODAY #cheney #trump #wyoming