At the Little Pokes Summer Rodeo opener in Laramie, admirers could be found in the grandstand, constituents who say they are proud of her Trump bulldogging, evoking a Wild West image of a cowboy wrestling a steer.

“I did not support Liz prior to all of this because she’s a very conservative Republican — she voted with Trump 93% of the time — but I do now,” Shelly Newman, 69, said as the goat-tail untying competition got underway in a dusty ring. Newman, a retired corporate training director, said she plans to sign up as a Republican to vote for her in the Aug. 16 primary…

As vice chair and one of two GOP members of the nine-member committee, Cheney has been unsparing in her criticism of Trump and his enablers, using the sort of blunt rhetoric that caused the state and national party to sanction her and congressional colleagues to strip her of leadership positions.

“Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible — there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” she said in opening remarks during the prime-time hearing debut that was seen by nearly 20 million viewers.