Wyoming has come out as the most-pro Donald Trump state in the US following the election… with voters there previously booting RINO congresswoman Liz Cheney.
The president-elect commanded a staggering 72.3 percent of the vote in the Cowboy State as of 9:50am on Thursday.
He is projected to win according to the Associated Press which reports that 99 percent of the count had been returned.
The support surpassed the high levels seen even in 2020 when Trump received almost 70 percent of votes.
With at least 192,576 votes, the Republican won in all but one of Wyoming’s 23 counties. Teton County, which includes the A-List town of Jackson, voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris.
Trump also managed to flip Albany County back from when Joe Biden won in 2020.
Wyoming was thrust into the spotlight this election cycle after former Republican Rep Cheney came out against Trump.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said she was ‘proudly’ casting her vote for Harris at a campaign rally in Ripon, Wisconsin earlier this year.
She cited the January 6 riots as the reason for her decision.
‘Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice our Capitol, to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name, and to violate the law and the Constitution in order to seize power for himself,’ Cheney said.
‘I don’t care if you are a Democrat or Republican or an independent, that is depravity and we must never become numb to it.’
Cheney, who served from 2017 to 2023, was booted out during the Republican primary in August 2022.
She lost to pro-Trump candidate with the second worse margin of defeat for a House incumbent in the last 60 years.
But she was condemned by both conservatives and progressives, who blasted the lawmaker as a principle-free opportunist whose endorsement would only put voters off.
A chastened Cheney took to X to post about the election result shortly after it came in.
‘Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections,’ she said.
While this year’s election was not his best performance by percentage of his margin of victory, it was in terms of the number of votes received in comparison to Harris.
The results mark the third time in a row that Wyoming has come out as the strongest Trump supporting state in the US.
West Virginia and North Dakota, where 99 percent of votes have been counted, were second and third in terms of Trump support with 70.2 percent and 67.5 percent of the vote respectively.
Shortly after the win, Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso took to X promising to ‘deliver’ for his constituents.
‘President Trump’s victory today is a mandate from the American people to get this country back on track,’ he said.
‘His agenda runs through the Republican-led United States Senate. Working together, we will deliver for the American people.’
‘Wyoming loves President Trump!’ Hageman wrote in response to news of the win. Both she and Barrasso managed to secure re-election.
Wyoming Democratic Party Chair Joe Barbuto told Cowboy State Daily his party was unsurprised by the results.
‘We know what it means to face an uphill battle, to be outnumbered, and to keep pushing forward no matter the odds,’ Barbuto said.
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