Trump Cheers “Total Winner” Harriett Hageman as Wyoming GOP Primary Battle Intensifies

After one term, Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming became the eleventh U.S. senator to announce retirement from office next year.

On Tuesday morning, as widely expected, Representative-at-large Harriett Hageman, R-Wyoming, declared for the open Senate seat. Within hours of her announcement, the 63-year-old conservative secured endorsements from President Donald Trump and the Club for Growth political action committee.

Trump hailed Hageman on Truth Social with a declaration: “SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”

Hageman gained national prominence on the right in 2022 after unseating then-GOP Representative Liz Cheney by a landslide. Cheney had fallen out of favor with Trump during House hearings regarding the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol, and Hageman, with Trump’s endorsement, captured 66% of the primary vote.

“Harriett will win the Senate nomination if she runs,” Jack Mueller, a former state legislator and past national chairman of the Young Republicans, told a source.

However, Hageman’s exit from her at-large seat signals a hard-fought primary battle between competing factions within the Republican Party.

The MAGA faction’s favorite is Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Grey. Sources in Wyoming indicate he may secure Trump’s blessing ahead of the primary.

More aligned with traditional party regulars than MAGA, attorney Matt Micheli—former state GOP chairman and Wyoming chairman for Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns—is also a contender.

“His father Ron Micheli was a successful politician who served in the state House and as state agriculture secretary,” said Tom Sansonetti, another former state party chairman.

Wyoming has not elected a Democratic senator since 1970, and its last Democratic Party representative won office in 1976.