To help Ms. Cheney bolster her chances in Wyoming’s upcoming Republican primary — she is facing a Trump-backed opponent — Mr. Katzenberg and his wife have donated more than $43,000 to her campaign and groups supporting her.
Mr. Katzenberg said his contributions went beyond that sum but declined to provide further details, saying only that he was talking up Ms. Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 committee, to “anybody and everybody that will listen to me, with any party affiliation.”
Mr. Katzenberg is one of a number of Democrats and independents who are crossing ideological lines to support Ms. Cheney, who has become a pariah in her own party for her break with Mr. Trump over Jan. 6 and her criticism of the House Republican leadership…
“Cheney is the most important politician in America right now,” said Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political strategist who advises the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor whom Mr. Mehlhorn said had quietly begun supporting Ms. Cheney.
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