Romney is the featured guest at a March 14 fundraiser for Cheney
at the home of Bobbie Kilberg, a well-connected Virginia
Republican who lined up against Trump during his 2016 bid for
the White House, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
In addition to Romney, the list of attendees is comprised of an
array of establishment Republican figures and Trump critics,
including former congresswoman Barbara Comstock, former Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, lobbyist Charlie Black, and
former Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's father.
The event comes as Cheney gears up for a tough primary battle
for Wyoming's only congressional district in August against a
lawyer, Harriet Hageman, endorsed by Trump. The race, which will
almost certainly determine the general election winner in the
deeply conservative state, is widely seen as a proxy for the
former president's grip over the Republican Party.
Cheney has been the target of Trump's ire and sidelined by most
Republicans after voting in January to impeach Trump on a charge
that he incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,
and helping lead an ongoing congressional committee
investigating the attack. Last year Republicans voted to remove
Cheney from her leadership position in the U.S. House of
Representatives.
Cheney is not in financial trouble, having ended September with
more than $3.6 million in the bank. But she faces a challenge
for survival in Wyoming, where the activist base of her own
party has moved against her. Over the weekend, Cheney won only
six votes in a straw poll conducted by the Wyoming Republican
State Central Committee, with Hageman securing 59.
Billionaire Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. were scheduled to
co-host a pair of fundraisers for Hageman on Wednesday, Politico
reported last month. Hageman had roughly $245,000 in the bank as
of September.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut; editing by
Jonathan Oatis)
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