EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Hageman, the main Republican candidate difficult Rep. Liz Cheney as Wyoming’s at-large member of the Home runs for re-election this yr, stories that she’s raked in over $1.3 million throughout the January-March first quarter of fundraising.

Hageman’s haul the previous three months, which was shared first with Fox Information on Thursday, brings over $2 million the quantity she’s raised since launching her congressional marketing campaign final September. And Hageman, who’s backed by former President Donald Trump, stories having over $1 million money readily available in her coffers as of the top of March.

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“It’s an honor to have such assist and I pledge to at all times mirror the views and values of the individuals of Wyoming when I’m in Congress,” Hageman stated in a press release. “That is Wyoming’s seat within the Home, not one particular person’s.”

Cheney, who’s but to announce her first quarter figures, introduced in over $7 million in fundraising final yr, and entered the brand new yr with a formidable struggle chest of $4.72 million money readily available. Federal candidates have till April 15 to file their marketing campaign money numbers with the Federal Election Fee.

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Cheney, a longtime vocal GOP Trump critic, was essentially the most senior of the ten Home Republicans who voted to question the then-president on a cost of inciting the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists and different Trump supporters, a few of who allegedly aimed to disrupt congressional certification of now-President Biden’s Electoral School victory within the 2020 election.

Cheney, who’s the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, instantly got here below verbal assault from Trump and his allies, and final Could was ousted from her number-three Home GOP management place.

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Cheney, who’s been very vocal in emphasizing the significance of defending the nation’s democratic course of and of placing nation earlier than social gathering, is one in all solely two Republicans serving on a particular choose committee organized by Home Democrats to research the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
( AP Picture/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump, stepping up his efforts to oust Cheney from Congress, endorsed Hageman as she entered the race. And the previous president and his allies efficiently urged some, however not all, of the opposite anti-Cheney candidates to drop out of the first and coalesce round Hageman.

Hageman, a Wyoming native and a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, was a former Cheney supporter and adviser who donated to the three-term congresswoman’s previous campaigns. Hageman, a conservative lawyer who’s fought for water, land and property rights, famous that she’s obtained over 21,000 donations for the reason that begin of the marketing campaign, and that the common donation within the first quarter was $84.

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Her first quarter haul was boosted by three high greenback fundraisers on her behalf. They had been a fundraiser in Miami hosted by PayPal co-founder and billionaire enterprise capitalist Peter Thiel, who’s a Trump ally, a fundraiser on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Florida hosted by Sen. Rand Paul – the place Trump made an look – and a fundraiser within the nation’s capital headlined by Home GOP Chief Kevin McCarthy.

Former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally on the Canyon Moon Ranch pageant grounds in Florence, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, on January 15, 2022.
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Cheney’s additionally had a serving to hand from some high-profile Republicans. Former President George W. Bush, and former Republican Home Audio system John Boehner and Paul Ryan, have helped increase marketing campaign money for Cheney. And Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and a vocal Republican Trump critic, headlined a fundraiser for Cheney final month.

Hageman’s political group famous that no non-incumbent Republican topped $1 million within the remaining quarter of final yr and that solely 5 GOP incumbents cracked that threshold – McCarthy ($3.7M), Home Minority Whip Steve Scalise ($2.6M), Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas ($2.1M), Cheney ($2M), and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio ($1.4M).