2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming

The 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming will be held on November 8, 2022, to elect the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district.

Not to be confused with the 2022 Wyoming House of Representatives election.
For related races, see 2022 United States House of Representatives elections and 2022 Wyoming elections.

2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming's at-large district
November 8, 2022
 
Party Republican Democratic
Incumbent U.S. Representative

Liz Cheney
Republican


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Republican primary

Background

Incumbent Liz Cheney was criticized by supporters of former president Donald Trump for her vote to impeach him, as well as refusing to object to the certification of the electoral college results in the 2020 presidential election.[1] Following her impeachment vote, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz appeared at a rally at the Wyoming State Capitol in support of ousting Cheney with Donald Trump Jr. supporting it too by phone in January 2021.[2] For the same reason, the Wyoming Republican Party later voted to censure her and requested that she resign or be primaried in the next election. Later that year it also voted 31-29 to no longer recognize Cheney as a member.[3][4]

In February, members of the Freedom Caucus attempted to have Cheney removed from her position as Chair of the House Republican Conference in response to her impeachment vote. In a secret ballot, 61 members of the conference voted to remove, while 145 voted not to remove. Cheney retained her position in large part because of the support by these Republicans including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.[5][6] Eventually, however, Cheney's continued criticism of Trump lost her support by more Republicans including McCarthy and Scalise, and McCarthy was caught on a hot mic saying "I've had it with her" in reference to Cheney. On May 12, Cheney was removed from her position as conference chair by a voice vote and replaced with Elise Stefanik.[6]

On May 21, challenger Anthony Bouchard admitted that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18. Bouchard claimed he went public with the story because he had learned that the story was being investigated by others, though the Cheney campaign denied investigating it. He compared his relationship with the unnamed girl to "the Romeo and Juliet story." The two got married, but divorced three years later, and she committed suicide at age 20. Bouchard continued to raise their son after her death, though he says the two are now estranged.[7][8]

Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were censured by the Republican National Committee at its meeting in Salt Lake City on February 4, 2022, due to "actions in their positions as members of the January 6th Select Committee not befitting Republican members of Congress". The Wyoming delegation to the committee also submitted a "Rule 11" letter formalizing support for Hageman and allowing the RNC to spend money allocated for Wyoming's branch of the party on her behalf.[9][10]

Declared
Republican candidates[lower-alpha 1]

Filed paperwork

Publicly expressed interest

Withdrawn

Declined

Endorsements
Liz Cheney
Executive Branch officials
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U.S. Representatives
Governors
Organizations
  • Renew America Movement[35]
Harriet Hageman
Executive branch officials
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Individuals
Chuck Gray (withdrawn)
U.S. Representatives
State Officials
Individuals

Polling
Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size[lower-alpha 2]		 Margin
of error		 Anthony
Bouchard		 Liz
Cheney		 Chuck
Gray		 Darin
Smith		 Other Undecided
McLaughlin & Associates (R)[upper-alpha 1] July 26, 2021 300 (LV) ± 5.6% 17% 23% 18% 7% 5%[lower-alpha 3] 30%
– 23% 25% 14% – 39%
– 24% 63% – – 14%
Remington Research Group (R)[upper-alpha 2] July 25–26, 2021 766 (LV) ± 3.3% 18% 19% 14% 24% – 25%
– 20% – 70% – 10%
McLaughlin & Associates (R)[upper-alpha 3] January 25–26, 2021 – (LV)[lower-alpha 4] – 28% 21% 17% – – –
50% 23% – – – –
– 23% 50% – – –

Independent and third-party candidates

Nominee

Lost Nomination
  • Joe Shogrin, Laramie County Contact Person for the Constitution Party[49]

Declared

General election

Predictions
Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[51] Solid R October 5, 2021
Inside Elections[52] Solid R October 11, 2021
Sabato's Crystal Ball[53] Safe R October 5, 2021
Politico[54] Solid R April 5, 2022

Notes
  1. The images in this gallery are in the public domain or are otherwise free to use. This gallery should not be construed as a list of major or noteworthy candidates. If a candidate is not included in this gallery, it is only because there are no high-quality, copyright-free photographs of them available on the Internet.
  2. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  3. Buchanan with 3%, Biteman with 2%
  4. Republican primary subsample of a poll of 500 likely general election voters (margin of error ± 4.4%)
Partisan clients
  1. Poll was sponsored by Gray's campaign
  2. Poll was sponsored by Smith's campaign
  3. Poll was sponsored by Save America PAC

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