conservative incumbent. in a kroovideo, she doesn t men enzi but president obama. president obama has launched a war on our freedom of speech and he is using epa so launch a war on wyoming s ranchers, aur farmers and our energy industry. enzi a long time friend of cheney s father, former vice president dick cheney, told reporters off camera that he was surprised by her decision. well, she said if i ran she wasn t going to but, obviously, that isn t correct. i thought we were friends. bring in margie and robert, former senior adviser to the bush/cheney campaign. okay, robert! what is going on here? it wasn t even a year ago liz cheney said mike enzi is a terrific senator. yeah. i don t know exactly what is going on here except for that
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politics and ambition. two things in wyoming that mean something. that is handshake and also fishing. what you see here or what you saw here was vice president cheney and mike enzi bonding over fishing, but also having a gentleman s handshake here. with all due respect to senator enzi, he did kind of waffle back and forth as to whether or not he was going to run re-election not but this is surprising that liz cheney is formally announcing. it is surprising but she is ambitious and wannabe politician and the cheney name is golden in wyoming and i m sure this is going to be a tough partisan fight between the primaries. john grasso said he is is backing cheney. he is my mentor and i think he does a great job representing the united states senate and i support enzi for reelect election and liz is terrific and i think she has a future that is
will be taking on the 11th most senior republican in the senate, a move that may not sit well with some of the gop establishment. senator enzi sounded surprised by the move. well, she said that if i ran she wasn t going to run, but obviously that wasn t correct. what s your relationship with her? i thought we were friends. joining me now is msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. he s also the author of the new book the center holds: obama and his enemies. thanks so much for being here this afternoon. my pleasure. a lot of people a lot of republicans especially are questioning cheney s decision. this is wyoming s sole representative in the house, cynthia lummis. let s listen. she will outraise him by factors of ten or more, and he will still win because wyoming is grassroots, retail campaigning.
too mainstream and too establishment for state like wyoming? it s up for the voters to decide. that is something that republican voters are going to have to figure out. yeah. i think it s not just a name question. it s a money question because apparently enzi hasn t raised that much money and he didn t think he was going to have a challenger. you have karl rove a friend of liz cheney but she is also criticized him and his conservative victory project. it is argued should let the voters decide and not be critical. is this a problem within the republican party? and in the end, do you think, robert, as somebody who worked with the bush/cheney campaign do you think in wyoming there is a different calculus in another place? it is such a small state. enzi seems shaking the hand at some point or another of almost every other resident. you re absolutely right. it s not about who is conservative or more conservative. notice that liz cheney talked about the president in her primary video the