“When she goes out and does a press conference every week slamming [Trump] and joins Pelosi’s committee and basically does everything in her power possible to infuriate the base, voters are seeing that and they’re reacting very negatively to it,” one national GOP strategist said.

Cheney is facing a total of eight primary challengers, including state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), state Rep. Chuck Gray (R) and former Pavillion, Wyo., Mayor Marissa Joy Selvig…

“There is not one strategist who is in the business of winning elections who would recommend that you do what she has done,” the national GOP strategist said.

“I think if a Democrat runs a primary solely focused on bashing former President Obama, they’re probably not going to win that primary,” the person added. “You don’t run your whole primary campaign based on bashing one of the most popular figures in your party. It’s not a good electoral strategy.”