Republican Rep. Harriet M. Hageman announced Tuesday that she will run for Wyoming’s open Senate seat, days after GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis said she would not seek reelection.
Hageman, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, is currently in her second term representing the state’s at-large district. She came to national prominence in 2022 when she ousted Rep. Liz Cheney, a former House GOP leader turned fierce Trump critic, in the Republican primary by double digits.
“President Trump’s America First movement made it popular to say you want to Make America Great Again, and he continues to deliver on that promise,” Hageman said in a statement Tuesday. “It would be a great honor to keep advancing the America First agenda in the Senate, as it has been in the House.”
Following her entry into the Senate race, Hageman quickly won the support of the political arm of the conservative Club for Growth. It’s not clear whether she’ll face competition in the Republican primary, which will likely be the more consequential race in a state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1970.
But Hageman’s decision opens up her deep-red House seat, which could draw a crowded GOP field. Nine Republicans, including eventual winner Cheney, were on the ballot for the seat in 2016, the last time it was open.
Hageman has been around politics for much of her life. Her father James Hageman served in the Wyoming House for more than two decades. She ran for governor in 2018, losing in the Republican primary, and was elected Republican national committeewoman for Wyoming in 2020 over former Rep. Barbara Cubin.
An attorney, Hageman has spent much of her career challenging federal regulations and agencies’ oversight of Wyoming’s natural resources.
“Our standard of living has exploded this past century. And the primary reason why: The commercial production of affordable and reliable energy,” she said in a campaign launch video.
Hageman’s spot also touted $15 million she said she secured for infrastructure projects in the state, her support for border security and her vote for Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending package, which she described as “the largest tax cut in American history.”
Jackie Wang and Andrew Menezes contributed to this report.
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