“If you look at the spread between this primary and the previous years, it’s clearly driven by people taking a position on Cheney,” said former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, a moderate Democrat.
That, political observers, say, benefited candidates such as Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, who won the GOP nomination for secretary of state over Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne. The two ran on opposite sides of the issue of election integrity.
The Trump-endorsed Gray prevailed as a 2020 presidential election skeptic, saying that there was more fraud than the margin of votes between Biden and Trump. He pushed to ban ballot drop boxes, which have become a target after the movie “2,000 Mules” was released, a film that alleges widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The lawmaker also sponsored numerous showings of the movie throughout Wyoming while on the campaign trail.
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