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Diaranson 17 augustus 2022

Cheney braces for loss as Trump tested in Wyoming and Alaska

(AP) — Wyoming Rep. GOP primaries this year.
Liz Cheney, a leader in The rest have lost or declined
the Republican resistance to seek reelection. Cheney
to former President Don- would be just the third to re-
ald Trump, is fighting to turn to Congress if she defies
save her seat in the U.S. expectations on Tuesday.
House on Tuesday as vot-
ers weigh in on the direc- And Murkowski is the only
tion of the GOP in two pro-impeachment senator
deep-red states. running for reelection this
year.
Cheney’s team is bracing for
a loss against a Trump-backed She is facing 18 opponents —
challenger in the state in the most prominent of which
which he won by the largest is Republican Kelly Tshibaka,
of margins during the 2020 who has been endorsed by
campaign. Trump — in her push to pre-
serve a seat she has held for
Win or lose, the 56-year-old nearly 20 years. In contrast
daughter of a vice president is to vulnerable Republican
vowing to remain in national candidates who cozied up to
politics as she contemplates Trump in other states this
a 2024 presidential bid. But summer, Murkowski contin-
in the short term, Cheney ues to promote her bipartisan
is facing a dire threat from credentials.
Republican opponent Har- vocal Cheney ally. “It’ll be just eight days after the FBI in his second impeachment
riet Hageman, a Cheyenne a crying shame really if she executed a search warrant at trial. “When you get the ideas from
ranching industry attorney does lose. It shows just how Trump’s Florida estate, re- both sides coming together,
who has harnessed the full much of a stranglehold that covering 11 sets of classified The top four primary Senate little bit of compromise in
fury of the Trump movement Donald Trump has on the records. Some were marked candidates in Alaska, regard- the middle, this is what lasts
in her bid to expel Cheney Republican Party.” “sensitive compartmented less of party, will advance to beyond administrations, be-
from the House. information,” a special cate- the November general elec- yond changes in leadership,”
Tuesday’s contests in Wyo- gory meant to protect the na- tion, where voters will rank the Republican senator said
“We like Trump. She tried to ming and Alaska offer one of tion’s most important secrets. them in order of preference. in a video posted on social
impeach Trump,” Cheyenne the final tests for Trump and The Republican Party initial- media over the weekend.
voter Chester Barkell said his brand of hard-line poli- ly rallied behind the former In all, seven Republican “This is what allows for sta-
of Cheney. “I don’t trust Liz tics ahead of the November president, although the reac- senators and 10 Republican bility and certainty. And it
Cheney.” general election. So far, the tion turned somewhat mixed House members joined ev- comes through bipartisan-
former president has largely as more details emerged. ery Democrat in supporting ship.”
Cheney’s allies were strug- dominated the fight to shape Trump’s impeachment in
gling not to lose hope in the the GOP in his image, having In Alaska, a recent change to the days after his support- On the other side of the
hours before polls closed. helped install loyalists in key state election law gives a peri- ers stormed the U.S. Capitol GOP’s tent, Sarah Palin, the
general election matchups odic Trump critic, U.S. Sen. as Congress tried to certify former Alaska governor and
“I’m still hopeful that the from Arizona to Georgia to Lisa Murkowski, an oppor- President Joe Biden’s victory. vice-presidential nominee,
polling numbers are wrong,” Pennsylvania. tunity to survive the former hopes to spark a political
said Landon Brown, a Wyo- president’s wrath, even af- Just two of those 10 House comeback on Tuesday.
ming state representative and This week’s contests come ter she voted to convict him members have won their

US West hit with water cuts but rebuffs call for deeper ones

(AP) — For the second critical decisions about where to respond to a federal ulti- Touton has said the addition- scarce.
year in a row, Arizona and to reduce consumption and matum to figure out how to al 15% reduction is necessary
Nevada will face cuts in whether to prioritize growing cut their water use by at least to ensure that water deliver- After more than two decades
the amount of water they cities or agricultural areas. 15%, they could face even ies and hydroelectric power of drought, Arizona, Nevada
can draw from the Colo- Mexico will also face cuts. deeper cuts that the govern- are not disrupted. She was and Mexico were hit with
rado River as the West en- ment has said are needed to noncommittal on Tuesday mandatory cuts for the first
dures more drought, fed- But those reductions rep- prevent reservoirs from fall- about whether she planned to time last year. Some of the re-
eral officials announced resent just a fraction of the ing so low they cannot be impose those cuts unilater- gion’s farmers have been paid
Tuesday. potential pain to come for pumped. ally if the states cannot reach to leave their fields fallow,
the 40 million Americans in agreement. while residents of its growing
The cuts planned for next seven states that rely on the “The states collectively have cities have been subjected to
year will force states to make river. Because the states failed not identified and adopted She emphasized partnership conservation measures such
specific actions of sufficient between federal officials and as restrictions on grass lawns.
magnitude that would stabi- their counterparts in the sev-
lize the system,” Bureau of en states and Mexico, but re- But those efforts thus far
Reclamation Commissioner peatedly declined to say how haven’t been enough. The
Camille Touton said. much time the states will water level at Lake Mead, the
have to reach the deal she re- nation’s largest man-made
Together, the missed dead- quested in June. reservoir, has plummeted so
line and cuts place officials low that it’s currently less
responsible for providing For years, cities and farms than a quarter full and inch-
water to growing cities and have diverted more water ing dangerously close to a
farms under renewed pres- from the river than flows point where not enough wa-
sure to plan for a hotter, drier through it, depleting its res- ter would flow to produce
future and a growing popula- ervoirs and raising questions hydropowever at the Hoover
tion. about how it will be divid- Dam on the Nevada-Arizona
ed as water becomes more border.