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Liz Cheney’s Democratic Glow Up

Liz Cheney’s Democratic Glow Up

The Powers That Be: Daily - June 16, 2022 - 19:55

Tara Palmeri joins Peter to explain how Liz Cheney’s January 6th performance turned her into an unlikely quasi-liberal icon—well, at least the massively conservative, Big Sky, Cheney-spawn sort of liberal icon. But it’s shocking nonetheless, especially as a strange procedural rule in Wyoming gives her a slither of a chance at re-election. And then Tina Nguyen makes sense of the recent, head-spinning G.O.P. primary results.

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