A a longtime foot soldier in national Republican politics, Cheney has displayed a political intuition that could help the GOP mount a comeback in 2020, lawmakers and aides say.
As conference chair, she’s already begun to reshape the GOP’s messaging arm, launching a campaign-style “rapid response” team to hammer House Democrats in their newfound majority. She also distributes internal talking points to her own members in a weekly email Listserv she dubs “the trailblazer” after her Wyoming roots.
Some GOP lawmakers, though, have begun to wonder whether Cheney would leave the House and run again for Senate if GOP Sen. Mike Enzi retires. Her first bid against Enzi, a soft-spoken and popular incumbent, sparked intraparty warfare and ended in failure after just six months.
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