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Disgraced Liz Cheney’s disastrous concession speech Tuesday night happened after a massive Republican blowback from voters in her Wyoming primary, and it the news about the embarrassing address may have violated campaign finance rules.
One of the most notable things about the speech was when Cheney compared herself and her career to that of a former President.
US Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) posted a smackdown of Cheney after her humiliating concession speech, advancing the irony of Cheney comparing herself to former president Abraham Lincoln, saying:
“Liz Cheney compared herself to Abraham Lincoln last night in her concession speech.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves from the Democrats; he didn’t become a slave to the Democrats.”
Liz Cheney compared herself to Abraham Lincoln last night in her concession speech.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves from the Democrats, he didn’t become a slave to the Democrats.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 17, 2022
“Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney keeps falling even after her defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary, Carmine Sabia Carmine reported for the Conservative Brief.
Cheney’s melodramatic ‘faretheewell’ speech was filmed by the same man who has helped the January 6 committee hearings, former ABC News president James Goldston; CNN reported:
“Goldston, the former President of ABC News, was surveying the scene at Cheney’s campaign event at a cattle ranch outside Jackson. He and a small film crew were taking in the picturesque landscape, with the Grand Tetons in the distance and the Wyoming prairie bathed in the evening sunlight, in what will be a stunning backdrop for a marquee Cheney speech expected later today.
As the vice chair of the committee, Cheney worked closely with Goldston’s team in presenting the findings in a TV-ready fashion to a national audience. They have worked together to edit hours and hours of recordings that have brought to life the insurrection as it unfolded.
Goldston was not in Wyoming as part of his work as a special adviser to the House committee, CNN has learned, but rather on assignment for his own production company for potential future projects involving Cheney.
But Federal Elections Commission rules say that his help may be a donation in kind:
An in-kind contribution is a non-monetary contribution. Goods or services offered free or at less than the usual charge result in an in-kind contribution. Similarly, when a person or entity pays for services on the committee’s behalf, the payment is an in-kind contribution. An expenditure made by any person or entity in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate’s campaign is also considered an in-kind contribution to the candidate.
The value of an in-kind contribution—the usual and normal charge—counts against the contribution limit as a gift of money does. Additionally, like any other contribution, in-kind contributions count against the contributor’s limit for the next election, unless they are otherwise designated.”
Many journalists picked up on Cheney’s strange act.
“Liz Cheney’s graceless concession speech follows her landslide defeat in the WY primary,” Rajan Laad wrote for the American Thinker in a bold smackdown.
“The outcome of the Republican primary for Wyoming’s sole House seat was widely expected. Recent polls had Cheney trailing her top rival, Harriet Hageman, by double-digit margins.
Late yesterday, the inevitable occurred.
Rep. Liz Cheney suffered an emphatic routing in her Wyoming primary race. She ended up securing only 49,316 votes, which is just 28.9% of all the votes, while Hageman secured 109,902 votes, which is an emphatic 66.3% of the total votes, according to the latest count as of this writing.
After thanking her team and her family members, Cheney began her “concession” speech,” Laad wrote.
Laad went on:
She claimed to have received a note from a Gold Star father more than a year ago. “He said to me, ‘Standing up for truth honors all who gave all,’ and I have thought of his words every single day since then,” said Cheney.
Cheney went on to say the following:
Two years ago, I won this primary with 73 percent of the votes. I could easily have done the same again, the path was clear, but it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. That is a path I would not take.
It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel a democratic system and attack the foundations of our Republic. That was a path I could not and would not take.
No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty.
The self-righteous Cheney was indirectly blaming Republican voters of Wyoming, implying they were immoral, ignorant, and gullible; hence they believe “the big lie” and voted for the wrong candidate. She claims to be the moral martyr who suffered for standing up for the right values.
Cheney said she had called her primary opponent Hageman to concede and then declared that “this primary election is over. But now the real work begins.”
“Cheney said that that work is rooted in the fight against “the conspiracy and the lies” about the 2020 elections. She called out without naming Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state, and other offices who she claimed support the “big lie.”
Perhaps Cheney forgot that she had spread debunked conspiracy theories spread by Democrat propagandists in the NYT that the Russian military spy unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban terrorists to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Laad wrote.
Cheney who invoked the President who led the country during the Civil War, which resulted in the death of many Americans.
Source: The Republic Brief