Since then, Cheney has chaired televised congressional hearings laying out evidence that Trump understood the effect of his actions and didn’t care when insurgents plunged the Capitol into violence.
“She more than anyone else has been the face of the anti-Trump forces since Jan. 6, and she’s in this very prominent role of leading the hearings. She couldn’t possibly be more out there, front-and-center, as a Trump opponent,” said University of Montana political scientist Robert Saldin. “She’s leaned into it in a way that a lot of the other people who voted for impeachment didn’t necessarily do after that. She didn’t back off an inch. All of these things are not a great fit for her constituency, which is very Republican and a very pro-Trump style of Republican.”
While that might make it seem like Trump is the main factor behind Cheney’s popularity slide, University of…
