Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Harriet Hageman handily staved off Republican challengers in Tuesday’s primary election. 

The Associated Press called the race at 8 p.m.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed both candidates but neither race garnered the kind of international attention thrust upon the state two years ago when Hageman ousted then-U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney. 

Barrasso beat out John Holtz of Laramie and Reid Rasner of Casper — the latter of which ran a very active and costly campaign against the incumbent. Hageman, meanwhile, defeated Steven Helling of Casper. 

Barrasso is a top ranking Republican in the Senate, but has increasingly drawn scorn from Wyoming’s far-right flank of the party, who see him as tied to establishment Republicans. 

“Thank you, Wyoming!” Barrasso said in a statement. “I am grateful for your overwhelming vote of confidence. I will continue to fight for every vote this November. Together, we can restore a Republican majority in Washington and secure a better future for hard-working Wyoming families.”

He will face Democrat Scott Morrow of Laramie in November, while Hageman will compete against Democrat Kyle Cameron. 

The congresswoman just finished her first term in the U.S. House, and has been busy campaigning on behalf of Freedom Caucus aligned candidates for the Wyoming Legislature. 

The general election is Nov. 5. 

Maggie Mullen reports on state government and politics. Before joining WyoFile in 2022, she spent five years at Wyoming Public Radio.

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  2. Thanks for your reporting. The Wyoming political calculus is so very strange that Barrasso draws ‘scorn from Wyoming’s far-right flank of the party’…and Hageman ‘has been busy campaigning on behalf of the Freedom Caucus’. What’s a common sense, liberal humanist centrist to do in such a state of extremes?

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    1. I have yet to see a definition of “far right”, probably just a propaganda term to smear center-right populists. Before answering your question, how do you define “liberal”, “centrist”, and “common sense” (I go by Eienstien’s definition, just whatever biases and prejudices you believe when you hit 18). Maybe find a candidate in either party that isn’t these people or the other extreme in Portland or California.

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