Embattled GOP Rep. Liz Cheney has made a lot of friends over her years in Washington, and many of them are rallying for her reelection campaign with a megafundraiser headlined by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.
The March 14 event will feature her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and an all-star cast of so-called Never Trumpers and long-time aides to her father and the Bush family.
It is set to be hosted by family friend Bobbie Kilberg, who worked for both Bushes and is the president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Those on the invitation as co-hosts amount to a who’s who of influential national Republicans since the Nixon era, a bold statement of establishment support for Cheney, who has drawn attacks from former President Donald Trump for supporting his second impeachment and working with the Jan. 6 commission.
Among those co-hosting the event are former Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock, columnist Mona Charen, former Bush Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Cheney aide Scooter Libby, and top lobbyist and GOP consultant Charlie Black.
Suggested contributions are $1,000 per head. Couples can pay $5,800 for a photo reception, and the VIP reception donation is $10,800 per couple.
Cheney has not toned down her criticism of Trump and his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Her criticism prompted House GOP leaders to kick her out of leadership and Wyoming Republicans to rebuke her.
She was trounced in a recent straw poll of state GOP activists by her Trump-backed challenger, Harriet Hageman. But straw polls often are wrong, notoriously so in a Wyoming poll just two years ago.
Cheney remains confident that the conservative state will return her because of her efforts to help Wyoming’s economy and because of her family’s long ties to the state. Her father once had the same House seat she has.
She also is an independent, conservative voice, noted earlier this week by critic Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said, “she has a very conservative voting record. More conservative than some of my Republican colleagues, by the way.”
Perhaps as a nod to the uphill task of reelection before her, the committee organizing the fundraiser is called the “Great Task PAC,” a combination of “Liz Cheney For Wyoming” and “Cowboy PAC.”
