While polling reveals Hageman has taken a massive lead with the primary right around the corner, the American donor class has taken notice of Cheney’s shrinking possibilities of retaining her seat on August 16. Fearing Cheney may lose through a set of political miscalculations, establishment donors are coming out of the woodwork to defend one of their own.
One of the Democrats’ most prominent donors, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has funded Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaigns, has donated no less than $43,000 to Cheney. The totality of the sum has not been disclosed for unknown reasons.
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“We agree on little, if anything,” Katzenberg admitted in an interview with the New York Times. “But she has done something that very, very few people in history have done, which is she’s put her country over party and politics to stand in defense of our Constitution.”
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Dmitri Mehlhorn, a strategist who advises far-left LinkedIn co-founder and Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, is likewise backing Cheney’s reelection bid. “Cheney is the most important politician in America right now,” Mehlhorn alleged to the Times.
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Further Democrat donors include Google executive Vint Cerf, Jane Fraser, the chief executive of Citigroup, and Boston-based billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman, who views himself more aligned with the establishment.
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“I strongly support Congresswoman Cheney’s bid for re-election,” Klarman explained to Times. “I’m resolved to do everything possible to send a strong message by keeping her in Congress. We need to stand behind Liz and send a rebuke to the most extreme factions in the Republican Party.”
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Cerf, a prominent Democrat donor and friend of Cheney, explained that he gave the candidate $2,900 as a “show of gratitude more than anything.”
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“As I looked at what Liz Cheney did, which was brave in the face of enormous pressure from others in her party, to stand up to them and say, ‘No, this is wrong,’ I was impressed enough by that to say, ‘You know what? She deserves support for that,’” Cerf declared.
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The Democrat donors have taken an interest in the Wyoming primary after Cheney’s campaign started soliciting Democrat votes last month. May and June polling data reveal Cheney losing to Hageman by 28 and 30 points. CNN has mentioned the polling data as troubling in an article entitled “Why Liz Cheney is in a lot of trouble in Wyoming.”
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“We shouldn’t mistake adoring press coverage and bipartisan bona fides for popularity in the place where popularity matters most for Cheney: Wyoming,” CNN’s Harry Enten analyzed. “A look at the data reveals that Cheney should be regarded as the clear underdog in her efforts to retain her seat.”
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