Former State Department official Liz Cheney started out the race for this open seat with plenty of skeptics after her disastrous and short-lived primary challenge to GOP Sen. Mike Enzi in 2013. But she's raised six times as much money as her two main primary competitors, state Rep. Tim Stubson and state Sen. Leland Christensen, and looks like the clear favorite in the August 16 primary. Stubson, a Casper attorney, is probably her closest rival, but he and Christensen are splitting the anti-Cheney vote. Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, held this seat for ten years between 1979 and 1989, and Liz Cheney relocated to the northwest corner of Wyoming in 2012. She would be the third straight Republican woman to hold this seat.

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