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ballot. there's been some talk of hay, maybe democrats, maybe independent voters in wyoming might come into that republican primary and give cheney a boost? look at the math she is up against here. this is as of today, with the party registration figures look like in wyoming. let's show you january 1st. because it is a thing that there are some democrats in wyoming that i've chosen to re-register as republicans to back liz cheney, but this is what it looks like. at the start of the year there were 45,000 registered democrats, now there's 36,000. now if you just said, and this would be purely for the sake of argument, that all of those democrats registered as republicans to back cheney, she's getting an extra nine or 10,000 votes out of that. in a republican universe, it's got more than 200,000 registered members, and we look at the polling, she is getting clobbered among republican voters, registered republican voters by hageman. so, this is the kind of thing
had two polls come out in the final months here. both of them have put hageman ahead by more than 20 points. in this race, you just look at the political sort of breakdown of wyoming. 19 of those states two dozen counties didn't just vote for trump against joe biden they gave trump more than 70% of the vote, this is probably the most republican pro trump state in america. that's where liz cheney is trying to make the stand, and to give you a chance of wet she's up against besides everything i just mentioned. one of the things for campaign and her supporters are hoping for here is the way that the primary is gonna work tonight, is right up until today, anyone could choose to vote in this republican primary. you go to the polls today, and you say, you know at? i'm registering as a republican. okay, get a republican primary ballot. there's been some talk of hay, maybe democrats, maybe independent voters in wyoming might come into that republican primary and give cheney a boost? look at the math she is up against here. this is as of today, with the
on to and start drawing blood out of that person. so i think this is a problem for the republican party. they had a hard time in 2008 shaking the iraq curse. i remember john mccain said he'd there for 100 years, 1,000 years, 1 million years. a lot of voters didn't want to see that. looks like they'll have that problem with iraq going into 2016. >> matt welch calls the current debate between rand paul and cheney a clearly defined fork in the road for gop foreign policy, saying that rand paul actually approaches the question of iraq with an assumption of personal and national humility and a sense that america knowledge and power shaped fluid events in the middle east has limitations as does the american appetite for making the kind of commitments the cheneys want. polls show that position is actually ascended nationally. you have 41% of americans saying barack obama is doing the right thing. only 29% saying do more. despite that, david, can you really say that the
after ford loses to carter, the rumsfelds go on vacation with the cheneys. >> right. >> bret: what did you talk about there? >> both of us were unemployed. we went down and played a little tennis and sat in the sun and talked about the future. i was clear that dick was thinking about going back to wyoming and interesting himself in politics. >> bret: cheney did go back to wyoming and ran for congress in 1978. in that first campaign, cheney a 37-year-old, three pack a day man with a family history of coronary disease suffered his first heart attack. >> having had a mild heart attack, led me to pause and reflect. upon reflection we decided we didn't want to continue the campaign. >> his wife stood in to enable cheney to take time off to get better and return to the campaign trail and win a congressional seat.
they would not beat carter. after ford loses to carter, the rumsfelds go on vacation with the cheneys. >> right. >> bret: what did you talk about there? >> both of us were unemployed. we went down and played a little tennis and sat in the sun and talked about the future. i was clear that dick was thinking about going back to wyoming and interesting himself in politics. >> bret: cheney did go back to wyoming and ran for congress in 1978. in that first campaign, cheney a 37-year-old, three pack a day man with a family history of coronary disease suffered his first heart attack. >> having had a mild heart attack, led me to pause and reflect. upon reflection we decided we didn't want to continue the campaign. >> his wife stood in to enable cheney to take time off to get better and return to the campaign trail and win a
after ford loses to carter, the rumsfelds go on vacation with the cheneys. >> right. >> bret: what did you talk about there? >> both of us were unemployed. we went down and played a little tennis and sat in the sun and talked about the future. i was clear that dick was thinking about going back to wyoming and interesting himself in politics. >> bret: cheney did go back to wyoming and ran for congress in 1978. in that first campaign, cheney a 37-year-old, three pack a day man with a family history of coronary disease suffered his first heart attack. >> having had a mild heart attack, led me to pause and reflect. upon reflection we decided we didn't want to continue the campaign. >> his wife stood in to enable cheney to take time off to get better and return to the campaign trail and win a congressional seat. >> bret: cheney would be