congratulations to harriet hagueman on her great and very decisive win in wyoming. a wonderful result for america and a complete rebuke of the unselect committee of political hacks and thugs. liz cheney should be ashamed of herself the way she acted. and her spiteful sanctimonious words and actions towards others. now, she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, i am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. thank you, wyoming. meanwhile, in alaska, lisa murkowski and kelly sheb baca about square off once again. murkowski taking advantage of the rank voting that they have over there in the last frontier and probably some democrats slipping over to try help her out. as for sarah palin, she will also -- just a little behind. all is fair in love and war they will get after it again. i mentioned this very briefly, guy. the ranked choice voting often favors democrats it's been suggested but basically it works out like this. you vote for one person but then you also have your second choice. and lisa murkowski and sometimes take full

>> todd: the results are in and trump backed attorney harriet hagueman defeating liz cheney in a 30-pointlide more than doubling her vote total all happening in wyoming. cheney hinting that her career in politics might not be over just yet. >> this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. the great and original champion of our party abraham lincoln was defeated in elections for the senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately prevailed. he saved our union and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history. >> carley: sean duffy joins us now. sean, you heard liz cheney there making the abraham lincoln reference. she also only spent half of her campaign donations. everybody is saying this might be a sign she is running for president. if she does, how do you think that is going to go over? >> well, i think liz cheney lives in a bubble. she is not seeing what the american people thinks of her policies and fight against donald trump. on january 3rd of 2023, her term in congress is going to end, carley. she will never be ele

kind of is not surprising. harriet hagueman, one in the wyoming primaries over incumbent. miss cheney. and at this martha waters, at the moment for the republican party is jamie republican royalty was one of the de obese biggest hopes for the future. she's the politician on the conservative friends of the party and many so on her the possibility to make the 1st female republican president until january 6th, 2021. jenny was one of the 1st republicans to condemn donald trump's involvement in the storming of the cabbage. oh, she knew speaking out again from good cause through the voice, she had called trump and also challenge ragman and helped her. when today was on the schools, how big drums influence continues to be in the republican party. but this j wouldn't be a j if she didn't have a plan b in her pocket. there's regulation that she would run as an independent candidate in 2020, for an act of revenge. that could cause some, some moderate republican bolts that he needs to be in his pulse assessment that multiple explosions have ripped through an ammunitions depot in russ

i want to hear why harriet hagueman is on the cusp of winning this primary. take a listen. >> because she's a sellout. >> yes, betrayal. anti-gun, anti-american. get out of here. she didn't back our man trump when she was supposed to. >> reporter: do you think that the january 6th insurrection did not amount to enough of a reason to have an investigation? >> they can investigate it. but why aren't they investigating the fbi agents there implanted in the crowd to try and instigate stuff? >> it's stunning. >> reporter: there's a great number of voters living in a different reality. the question was since may would voters shift after these public hearings? frankly for the most part the answer appears to be no. >> it's stunning that voters after everything that has been said, everything that is available to them, still think that crowd was incited as a false flag by fbi, quote, agencies. it's pretty dismaying. ali vitale, alaska is following other states in trying out ranked voting. >> reporter: it's a little complicated, but it could reward a candidate like lisa murkowski beca

a large margin, wider than some expected losing to harriet hagueman, what are voters telling you there this morning? >> it's one more data point former president donald trump is in control of this republican party and republican voters respond to his endorsements. in a state like this, there is no doubt that liz cheney trying to turn the page, she has four more months left in her co congressional seat so she'll of course be focussing on the january 6th, the committee and her work on that. as she is inching ever closer to figuring out her next chapter, overnight her campaign became a super pac and it's called the great task. of course, a reference to abraham lincoln's gettysburg address she mentioned the three words last night. >> the great and original champion of our party abraham lincoln was defeated in elections for the senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately prevailed, saved our union and defined our obligation as americans for all of history. speaking at gettysburg of the great task remaining before us. >> reporter: so now that is

. >> trump is backing attorney harriet hagueman writing in the casterman star tribune hagueman you don'tave to be cynical to suspect that she is using wyoming's house seat to propel her into position to run for president herself in 2024. cheney has raised more than $15 million. breaking multiple fundraising records. 96% of that money from out-of-state. she has only spent about half that feeding into speculation she may use that money to run for president. she has refused to rule that out. >> are you expecting to lose? are you going to run for president? >> look, my focus, bret, is absolutely on doing what is right. >> cheney tweeted that the challenges we face as a nation require serious leaders who will abide by their oath and uphold the constitution no matter what. cheney will speak here in the jackson area tonight. but cheney allies says she is expected to say that this is only the first battle that a much longer war. bret? >> bret: rich edson in jackson. rich, thanks. another race we are watching out in alaska, sarah palin running for congress in a special election. she is facing two

republicans to condemn his involvement in the general 6 riots than on the other hand, there's harriet hagueman. she was basically running her whole adult life, her own law firm here in the state capitol, cheyenne, as she was close friends with lightless cheney. we see we have many, many videos where, where they introduce each other and refer to each other as friends. but then afterwards, ellis cheney kind of turned her back towards a donald trump. he donald trump, himself endorsed her to become the challenger of this cheney. and ever since she is travelling, why ami wyoming and fighting a booth with really conservative stands against, for example, environmental protection and tax cuts is fighting for the seed and the congress. right. so those are the candidates that now we'll take a look at your report about the state venus, and then we'll come back to wyoming is known for its spice ons cowboys, and never ending skies. it is the least populated state and politically deep, red 70 percent voted for donald trump in the last election. the western state has hardly ever been in the focus of politica

kind of a surprise to harriet hagueman, one in the wyoming primaries over incumbent. miss cheney. and yet this marks a watershed moment for the republican party, this jamie republican royalty was one of the, to your peace. biggest hopes for the future. choose the politician on the conservative fringe of the party and many so on her the possibility to make the 1st female republican president until january 6th, 2021. jenny was one of the 1st republicans to condemn donald trump's involvement and the storming of the cabbage. oh, she knew speaking out against some good cause through the voice she had drunk and also challenge ragman and helped her. when today was on the school's whole big chums influence continues to be in the republican party. but this j wouldn't be a charity. if she didn't have a plan b in her pocket. there's speculation that she would run as an independent candidate in 2020, for an act of revenge. that could cause some, some modern republican votes that she needs to do is pull reporting there. now let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headline

harriet hagueman was not only an anti-trumper, she called him xenophobic and racist. she's flipped now and she is the trump candidate. let's look at the state of alaska. lisa murkowski survived the primary. also looking at sarah palin back into politics. >> that's the interesting one here. there's two things happening here on the house side. don young passed away, the at large congressional seat in alaska, this is the special election to fill the remainder of his term. this is a ranked choice situation here. we've got still votes coming in. there were three candidates who actually were on the ballot yesterday, one democrat and two republicans. it is looking here like the democrat will finish in first. you still see votes coming in. they're still primarily counting up votes cast in person yesterday, votes cast in person early. there's going to be some mail-in voting here. you expect the trump candidates to do the worst with the mail-in voting. if you're sarah palin knowing there are still same day votes to be tabulated in this, that there's not a huge universe of mail-

republican congresswoman liz cheney is facing a number of challengers including trump endorsed harriet haguemanlican leadership in the wyoming republican party voted to cesor her for speaking out against former president trump and for joining the house january 6th committee as its vice chair. cheney said again and again her top priority is to stop trump from winning the presidency again describing him as a threat to american democracy. joining us now at the big board is national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. good morning. a big day in wyoming and alaska. we'll talk about that in a moment. polling has been spotty, but a big lead over cheney. >> the polling hasn't been encouraging for liz cheney. you take a look at the match. there's a third candidate on the ballot. but hageman has gotten the endorsement dth d. leading by lopsided margins. in the polling, you have the broader context for this. you mentioned ten republican members of congress of the house in the wake of january 6th. voted to impeach donald trump. cheney was the most prominent and most persistent in

hagueman. >> he had suggested to the #, 9 members of congress that were at the table could somebody go out and help harrietere. i will go. >> fallon more than 100 house republicans to throw their support behind hagueman. george w. bush and senator mitt romney have backed cheney. tom and dean phillips cut an ad for cheney. mccarthy says wyoming will be part of a g.o.p. sweep of the house in november. >> will you be speaker in january. >> i believe so. we will win the majority and i will be speaker, yeah. >> mccarthy says the house g.o.p. conference welcomes those who embrace a limited federal government and he says that cheney is just too focused on one person. the former president, donald trump. and not enough on her district. cheney responded that mccarthy's, quote word salad is just difficult to understand. we now head to jonathan hunt in alaska who is covering senator lisa a murkowski and her trump-backed opponent. >> be with the winning team. winning for the right reasons for alaska. >> senator lisa murkowski knows she has a fight on her hands. kelly she baca running significantly to the right of the m