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’Dancing With Wolves?’: Liz Cheney hails KEVIN COSTNER endorsement, Wyoming voters say ‘not a REAL cowboy’

Rep Liz Cheney is placing some major Hollywood muscle beside her gubernatorial campaign, lauding actor Kevin Costner's endorsement

Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney tweeted a photo on Monday, August 1, of Kevin Costner sporting a pro-Cheney shirt. The 'Yellowstone' star backed Cheney's re-election bid as she faces a challenge from her opponent, Harriet Hageman. "Real men put country over party," Cheney tweeted alongside the photo.

The high-profile backing comes after a poll last month found Cheney — a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump and vice chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot — dragging her main GOP primary opponent, Hageman who is backed by Trump, by more than 20 points. The poll was conducted by the Casper Star-Tribune from July 7 to 11 and it was found that Hageman won 52 percent of support, while Cheney won only 30 percent of support from likely Republican primary voters.

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Despite his support for Cheney, Costner no longer considers himself a Republican. Costner was once considered a Republican but has supported Democrats since the 1990s. Costner described himself as an independent in a 2020 interview with The Daily Beast. "I vote for whom I believe has the best interests of the country and our place in the world," Costner, 67, said at the time.

"The Democratic Party does not represent everything that I believe, and the Republican Party does not represent everything that I believe right now — at all," Costner said. "As a result, I find it too limiting", he said at that time during the interview. Costner further said he goes "back and forth" on his votes and called Trump "dangerous."

Liz's endorsement created a stir on Twitter. People slammed Liz for her move. Conservative activist Scott Presler wrote, "I don’t think Wyoming men will take kindly to a woman saying they aren’t real men if they don’t vote for you. Wyoming men, vote for Harriet Hageman on August 16th". In another tweet, he wrote, "Liz couldn’t find a Wyoming voter that supports her, so — naturally — she had to settle for an actor that lives in Colorado. Sounds about right". "Hollywood elites support Liz Cheney while many Wyoming voters don’t", a user wrote. While another wrote, "Nobody tell this idiot 2 of Republicans favorite presidents were actors".

Another user wrote, "They found the one guy in the world who owns a Liz Cheney shirt. 🤡". One user wrote, "Now he's dancing with wolves. He lost his field of dreams, letting climate change turn this into a water world. I wonder what the Guardian will say about this? Definitely not our Robin Hood, and definitely not working towards a perfect world..."

"BREAKING: Liz Cheney takes biannual trip to Wyoming to pretend she is from Wyoming", wrote a user. "Ha, you have a crooked, lying and corrupt father who helped get us in that mess in Iraq. What a disgusting family...", wrote another criticizing Liz. "He's not a real cowboy Liz. He plays pretend!! Like you", one user wrote.