For WY Dems, voting for Cheney is another chance to vote against Trump

Back then, Johnston said he would have called anyone “nuts” for saying he’d be voting for Cheney in the future. Now, he calls it a “no-brainer.”

“When I saw her comments and her leadership in the Jan. 6 hearings … I was like, ‘There’s no mistake.’ She represented, for me, a woman with guts and determination, who wanted to look and find out what the facts were before moving on,” he said.

Democrats and independents say they aren’t taking the decision to cross over lightly. But the stakes, they say, are so high that they must.

“She is the worst type of Republican that I’d never touch with a 10-foot pole, but she’s not willing to go down the road saying that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president,” said Kim Holloway, a former member of the Casper City Council and a self-described socialist Democrat.

“Liz Cheney has elevated herself by saying a bunch of rich and powerful people should be held accountable, which should be the bare minimum,” Ewalt said. “I have to remember that that is the bare minimum, but she’s the only one that’s above that right now.”