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Liz Cheney vows to carry on fight against Trump after conceding defeat in Wyoming primary

(CNN) Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the most ardent Republican critic of Donald Trump in Congress, vowed to carry on her fight against the former President and the election-denying movement he leads in a speech Tuesday night after conceding defeat in her primary.

She'll lose to Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman, CNN projects.
"This primary election is over," Cheney said in her speech. "But now the real work begins."
On Wednesday morning, she told NBC's "Today" show that she is "thinking about" running for president and will make a decision in "the coming months."
The last of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump's second impeachment to face voters, Cheney now becomes the eighth who will not be returning to Congress next year. Her loss, though widely anticipated, represents a significant marker in the wider fight over the direction of the Republican Party. Once considered an up-and-comer, Cheney was booted from House GOP leadership last year over her unyielding opposition to the former President and trailed in polling back home this year as she helped lead the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Though she made no announcement about her plans Tuesday night, Cheney did hint at a future in elective politics.
"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," she said. "Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history."
Overnight, the Cheney campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership PAC to be called "The Great Task." This is the first of several next steps from Cheney, an adviser told CNN, as she starts to make good on ideas expressed in her election night speech and opens a new chapter in the wake of her landslide defeat. The name of the PAC is a historic nod to Lincoln who spoke at Gettysburg of the "great task" facing the country.
Cheney's attempt at projecting dignity in defeat in her election night speech was itself a clear rejoinder to Trump's behavior since losing the 2020 election.
"No House seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty," she said. "Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept, honorably, the outcome of elections. And tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary. She won. I called her to concede the race."
Despite her conservative credentials and party pedigree, her role as Trump's chief GOP critic on Capitol Hill made her a heavy underdog in a state the former President won with nearly 70% of the vote in 2020. His enduring popularity there, coupled with Cheney's role as vice chair of the January 6 committee, made the three-term congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney a top target of Trump allies.
Cheney said American democracy faced an existential threat -- that "our survival is not guaranteed" -- calling out Republican efforts at the state level to decertify 2020 election results and GOP midterm candidates who have already begun to cast doubt on future votes.
"If we do not condemn the conspiracies and the lies, if we do not hold those responsible to account, we will be excusing this conduct and it will become a feature of all elections," she said. "America will never be the same."
Trump's grip on the GOP has been proven again and again since he left Washington. With Wyoming's vote in, Cheney becomes the fourth House Republican who voted to impeach Trump to lose her primary. Four others were not running for another term. The two survivors to date, in California and Washington, benefited from their states' nonpartisan primary system. Cheney had no such cushion, though a late push for Democrats and independents to register for the GOP primary might have somewhat softened the ultimate count.
Leading Republicans on Capitol Hill had coalesced around Hageman, who has embraced Trump's false election fraud claims and called the 2020 contest "rigged." House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, another Hageman supporter, on Monday said during an appearance on Fox News that the election in Wyoming was "going to be a referendum on the January 6 committee."
Cheney on Tuesday also addressed the recent search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, denouncing the former President's efforts to sow anger among his supporters and potentially endanger FBI agents involved in the raid by releasing some of their names.
"That was purposeful and malicious. No patriotic American should excuse these threats or be intimidated by them," she said. "Our great nation must not be ruled by a mob provoked over social media."
As Cheney issued a dire warning in Jackson, Hageman, at her victory rally hours east in Cheyenne, thanked Trump and congressional Republicans for their support.
"Wyoming has shown today is that while it may not be easy, we can dislodge entrenched politicians who believe they've risen above the people they are supposed to represent and serve," Hageman said.
In a post to his own social media platform, Trump crowed over Cheney's loss, calling it "a wonderful result for America," before denouncing her as "spiteful" and "sanctimonious."
"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," Trump wrote.

Sarah Palin looks to make a comeback in Alaska

While Cheney may have been cast into her party's wilderness, a prominent figure from the GOP's recent past is hoping to return from more than a decade off the electoral map. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, whose ascent marked a precursor to the party's Trump era, returned to the ballot on Tuesday.
In this new iteration, she was the Trump-endorsed candidate in a three-deep field vying to fill the remainder of the late GOP Rep. Don Young's at-alarge House seat. But no candidate will secure a majority of the vote in that race, CNN projects, which means it'll head to a ranked-choice voting tabulation that is scheduled to start on August 31.
Palin, who resigned as governor in 2009, squared off with Nick Begich III, the Republican scion of the state's most storied Democratic family, and former Democratic state Rep. Mary Peltola, who was endorsed by independent Al Gross after he dropped out of the race despite also making the final four.
Those three special election contenders were also running in a concurrent primary to determine who will advance to the November general election to fill the at-large House seat for the next full term. All three will advance, CNN projects, along with Republican Tara Sweeney, a former assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the US Interior Department.

GOP senator who voted to convict Trump faces voters

While Cheney's fate in Wyoming has grabbed the most headlines, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, was also facing new competition this year fueled by her lack of fealty to the former President. Unlike Cheney, however, Murkowski -- herself the latest in a proud statewide political dynasty -- was a better bet to overcome the forces arrayed against her.
That's in large part due to Alaska's new nonpartisan top-four primary, which, like in the House race, sends the top four candidates to the general election, which will be decided by a ranked-choice vote if no one receives a majority.
Murkowski, Republican Kelly Tshibaka and Democrat Patricia Chesbro will advance to the November election, CNN projects, against a fourth candidate yet to be determined. The top-four system is expected to aid Murkowski against the Trump-backed Tshibaka, who's the former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration.
Murkowski has in the past enjoyed broad support, across partisan lines, in a state that elected her father, Frank Murkowski, first to the Senate and then as its governor. He then appointed his daughter to her current position in 2002. When she was defeated in a 2010 Republican primary during the tea party wave, Murkowski launched a write-in campaign and defeated GOP nominee Joe Miller in the fall.
In the governor's race, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Democrat Les Gara and independent former Gov. Bill Walker will advance to the November election, CNN projects, against a fourth candidate yet to be determined.
Walker likely would have lost to Dunleavy in his 2018 reelection bid had he not dropped out shortly before the election and endorsed Democrat Mark Begich.
Dunleavy, now seeking a second term, won the one-on-one contest by less than 10 points.
This story has been updated with additional developments.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny and Chandelis Duster contributed to this report.

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Analysis: Liz Cheney's loss may be the second worst for a House incumbent in 60 years

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January 6 investigation continues as Cheney spotlights 'real work' ahead

(CNN)GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming lost her primary election Tuesday, but her work with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack is far from over.

At a private event with staff the night before the election, Cheney specifically thanked people on her team for all they've done to help her with the work of the committee and emphasized how important that work has been for the future of the country, a source familiar told CNN.
Cheney had played a central role in ensuring the committee's summer hearings were focused on Donald Trump specifically, multiple sources told CNN, and her concession speech Tuesday reaffirmed her intent to be a fierce critic of the former President and his election lies while remaining undeterred by the political consequences.
"This primary election is over," Cheney said. "But now the real work begins."
Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler told CNN, "Politics won't play a role in the Committee's work."
The committee now becomes Cheney's biggest platform for carrying out her message in her remaining days in Congress. She referenced the committee's hearings in her concession speech and how "dozens of Republicans," including senior officials from Trump's White House, Justice Department and campaign have testified that they told the former President that the election was not stolen or rigged.
"That's why President Trump and others invent excuses, pretexts for people not to watch the hearings at all," Cheney said. "But no citizen of this Republic is a bystander. All of us have an obligation to understand what actually happened."
Cheney was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, of which, only two are still in the running to return to Congress next term. The others either lost their primary challenges or opted to retire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, the other Republican on the January 6 committee, decided against running for reelection.
Since its last hearing in July, the committee has continued to work behind closed doors, and plans to resume hearings in September. The committee is still gathering evidence and has reengaged in negotiations with some witnesses who had previously resisted sitting for a deposition, sources have told CNN. The committee could also be calling back witnesses it has interviewed previously, to corroborate new details, sources added.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he "would consider" a formal invitation to testify before the committee, an invitation committee members have long been considering, but hinted at potential executive privilege issues. A person with knowledge of the former vice president's thinking, however, cautioned against reading too much into his remarks Wednesday and a spokesperson for the committee declined to comment on Pence's statement. And there is a question of how much committee members believe Pence's direct testimony is needed given Pence's chief of staff Marc Short and Pence aide Greg Jacob have already testified to the committee.
The panel also has been zeroing in on former officials from Trump's Cabinet for testimony this month, having recently met with Trump's former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, revealing its particular interest in learning more about conversations among officials about possibly invoking the 25th Amendment after the US Capitol attack.
At the same time, the panel is also working on the writing of its final report, which is expected to be released some time this fall.
"In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward," Cheney said at the committee's latest hearing. "Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive-privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break."
The committee has conducted over a thousand interviews and depositions, received nearly 150,000 documents, and since the start of the hearings has received over 4,000 submissions to its tip line, a source tells CNN.
But, many questions about the committee's investigation remain. Multiple investigations are underway into the missing Secret Service text messages from around January 6. Committee members feel they have just scratched the surface in terms of uncovering what's behind the missing text messages. The panel has subpoenaed records from the agency, and has received thousands of pages of documents, including radio traffic of then-Vice President Mike Pence's detail communicating about how to move him to a secure location on January 6, which was used in a hearing. But as of last week, the committee had only received one text message.
And even though there appears to be a growing number of previously reluctant witnesses now willing to engage with the committee, there is still a considerable number of individuals refusing to cooperate, namely five House Republicans the committee subpoenaed, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
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How Liz Cheney lost Wyoming's lone seat in the House

Jackson, Wyoming (CNN)Rep. Liz Cheney's supporters say her reelection hopes were doomed on January 13, 2021, when a week after the insurrection at the Capitol, she and nine other House Republicans voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.

Everything since that day -- Cheney's role on the House select committee investigating the insurrection; her ads featuring her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, eviscerating Trump; her speeches attempting to steer the GOP away from Trump's influence -- only served Harriet Hageman's victory in Wyoming's primary for its lone House seat on Tuesday.
Cheney's ouster caps a summer in which Trump has purged the GOP of many of his critics, while elevating candidates -- including Hageman -- who have parroted his lies about widespread election fraud. Trump-aligned candidates have won primaries for governor in swing states such as Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and Senate in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Candidates backed by the former President have positioned themselves to take over the election machinery in a series of key states if they win in November.
Primaries in recent months have also brought into focus the role a handful of prominent Republicans, including Cheney and former Vice President Mike Pence, are seeking to play in moving the GOP beyond Trump and his election denialism.
But Wyoming's results on Tuesday demonstrated the long odds those Trump critics face in a party in which the former President remains the most dominant figure and is teasing a third run for the White House in 2024.
President Joe Biden called Cheney following her primary loss, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to divulge the contents of the conversation. Bloomberg was first to report the call.
Cheney attempted to assemble a coalition of Democrats, independents and moderate and anti-Trump Republicans -- many of them ideological opponents of the neoconservative congresswoman before the last 19 months -- to save her seat. Her campaign sent information to registered Democrats in Wyoming about how to change their party registration, and in interviews across the state in the lead-up to the election, a number of Democrats did say they were voting for Cheney.
But the Cowboy State's electorate is almost entirely Republican. Wyoming has more than 215,000 registered Republicans compared to just 36,000 registered Democrats, according to data from the secretary of state's office. That's a drop of about 15,000 registered Democrats from early 2021, but the pool of party-switchers, along with a fall-off of more than 3,000 independent voters who likely became Republicans, was nowhere near large enough to save Cheney from defeat in a Republican Party that had turned against her.
"I think she stood up for what she believes in," said John Grant, a Republican who cast his ballot for Cheney, even though he suspected she would fall short. "It took a lot of courage to stand against the Republican Party and Donald Trump."

'Uneasy from the beginning'

The roots of Cheney's loss were planted long before Tuesday's primary. And in some cases, the seeds were planted during the factional battles within the Wyoming GOP that date back to the tea party era, when Cheney was still a resident of Virginia.
The state's GOP, with no real competition from Democrats, has divided into two factions, with a more moderate establishment wing butting heads with a more conservative faction that has increasingly wrested away control.
The establishment wing retains some power in Wyoming. Gov. Mark Gordon, a part of that wing, won Tuesday. But the conservative faction has seized control of the state Republican Party and many of its local organizations.
"In Wyoming, we don't necessarily embrace the idea of a big tent," Wyoming GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne said on Fox earlier this year.
Wyoming Republicans' reservations about Cheney were first evident in 2016, when she won her House seat after winning just 39% of the vote in the GOP primary against a fractured field. She was cast as too close to the establishment by some rivals, and as a carpetbagger by others -- including Tim Stubson, a former state lawmaker who now supports Cheney.
But, she was by far the best-known candidate in the race thanks to the decade her father spent representing Wyoming in Congress prior to becoming secretary of defense and later, vice president.
Cheney had coasted to reelection since then, largely because she had not broken with conservatives on major issues. Stubson said she was on course to do so again, until the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, when Cheney became a leading critic of Trump's actions and defender of the integrity of the 2020 election.
The makings for a divorce from Cheney were immediately evident. Though Wyoming's GOP has been fractured by warring factions, one thing that has broadly united those factions is support for Trump. He won Wyoming in 2020 by 43.3 percentage points over Biden -- Trump's largest margin of victory anywhere in the nation.
"Yes, there may have been an undercurrent there of anti-Liz sentiment, but there is no way she would have had any trouble getting elected," Stubson said.
"Her relationship with that portion of the party has been uneasy from the beginning, and they probably never totally embraced her because she has been the definition of an establishment Republican. But she was right on the policies," he said. "In my mind, it's a sort of binary issue: If she votes for impeachment, it doesn't matter what she does afterward."

Voters say Cheney was too focused on Trump

While Trump's shadow loomed large over the race, conversations with voters across Wyoming over the last week often came across with a sense of disappointment in Cheney, more than a burning sentiment of anger. Several people said they felt Cheney devoted far more time on national issues -- to the detriment of her focusing on energy and natural resource priorities of critical importance to the state.
"I want Wyoming to be protected and I don't feel Liz is doing that job," said Jenille Thomas, who lives in the coal-mining town of Rock Springs in southwestern Wyoming.
For many Republican voters in Wyoming, though, it was Cheney's vote to impeach Trump that spurred them to action.
Esther Egan, a 68-year-old who cleans houses and lives in Jackson, said she voted for Hageman because Cheney "bailed on us when we need her the most."
"They can say whatever they want about Trump, but he did a damn good job. And then she turns tail," Egan said. "She's with Nancy Pelosi."
Catherine Norsworthy, a 68-year-old homemaker in Jackson, said she switched from being an unaffiliated voter to a Republican to vote for Hageman, citing Trump's endorsement of her.
"I'm not in favor of the January 6 hearings at all," she said. "I didn't like her voting against Trump. I'm very pro-Trump. I listen to him."
Cheney was by far the most prominent of the 10 House Republicans to vote in January 2021 for Trump's impeachment. She revealed her decision to do so the day before the House vote, saying in a statement that Trump "summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing."
The retribution she faced within the GOP built over the following months. In May 2021, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly endorsed removing Cheney from her position as the No. 3 spot in the party's leadership team.
That same month, the House GOP removed Cheney from her leadership post on a voice vote.
She followed the ouster by telling reporters, in a preview of how she would approach the following year and her reelection campaign: "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former President never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office."
In July 2021, Cheney accepted a position as one of two Republicans, along with retiring Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, on the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
As the committee conducted its probe, Trump set his sights on revenge, endorsing challengers to most of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him.
Trump's biggest target was Cheney. He endorsed Hageman, a former Republican National Committee member and lawyer who had once been a Cheney ally, on the day she entered the race in September 2021.
For the most part, Trump's efforts have succeeded. Four of the 10 have retired. Three more, in addition to Cheney, lost their primaries. Only two survived their primaries, and California Rep. David Valadao and Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse did so in part because their states hold all-party open primaries.
As those retirements piled up and those primaries unfolded, Cheney was busy playing a leading role on that committee, in its interviews of former Trump administration officials and in its public hearings in which the panel has revealed some of its findings.
She has also sought out opportunities to confront the GOP's direction. She delivered a searing rebuke of Trump and her party's leadership in a late June speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
"We are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before -- and that is a former President who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic," Cheney said then. "And he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man."
Weeks after that speech, Cheney was elusive when asked about the possibility of running for president in 2024. She told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that she will "make a decision on 2024 down the road."
In an interview with CNN's Kasie Hunt earlier this month, Cheney made clear she would not temper her criticism of Trump at all -- even if it costs her the House seat that her father once held and that she has held since 2017.
"We're in a situation where former President Trump has betrayed the patriotism of millions and millions of people across our country, and many people here in Wyoming, and he's lied to them," she said. "And what I know to do is to tell the truth, and to make sure that people understand the truth about what happened and why it matters so much."
Even as polls showed Cheney was on her way to a resounding defeat, she stuck to a message focused squarely on Trump.
Her campaign bought ad time on Fox for a spot featuring Dick Cheney, in which he called Trump a "coward" who lies to his supporters and "tried to steal the last election" using violence.
It didn't take long for the outcome of Tuesday's primary to become clear. Cheney had been badly defeated, and conceded the race to Hageman quickly.
She told supporters that she'd won the primary with 73% support two years ago, and "could easily have done the same again." But doing so, she said, would have required embracing Trump's lies about election fraud.
"That was a path I could not and would not take," Cheney said.
"No House seat, no office in this land, is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. And I well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty," she said.
After a primary that Cheney and her allies knew she was set to lose, the question is, what's next for the Wyoming congresswoman who had in a short time rocketed up the House Republican ranks?
She did not answer that question Tuesday night, at her election night event on a ranch in Jackson Hole. But overnight, her campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission creating a leadership PAC to be called "The Great Task" -- a nod to Abraham Lincoln, who spoke at Gettysburg of the "great task" facing the country. And on Wednesday morning, she told NBC's "Today" show that she is "thinking about" running for president and will make a decision in "the coming months."
In her election night speech, Cheney previewed a continued fight against Trump: "I have said since January 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office, and I mean it. This is a fight for all of us, together."
"I ask you tonight to join me: As we leave here, let us resolve that we will stand together, Republicans, Democrats and independents, against those who would destroy our republic," she added.
As she left the stage, Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" blared over the event's speakers as the sun set over the Grand Teton mountain peak.
This story and headline have been updated.

Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.

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How these Republican impeachment supporters survived their primaries

(CNN)Following Rep. Liz Cheney's primary loss in Wyoming Tuesday, just two of the 10 House Republicans who backed Donald Trump's 2021 impeachment will be on the ballot in November: Reps. David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington state.

They are joined by the only Republican who voted to convict Trump in his Senate impeachment trial and is up for reelection in 2022, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski advanced to the general election in Alaska Tuesday.
How were these three Republican impeachment supporters able to beat the odds and overcome the wrath of the Trump base? The answer may lie in the unique primary systems all three ran in.
Murkowski, Newhouse and Valadao did not face a traditional Republican primary. Instead, they participated in contests where all candidates, regardless of party, appeared on the same ballot. In California and Washington, the top two finishers move on to the general election, while the top four advance in Alaska.
With all voters in the mix, these Republicans didn't just have to appeal to the party faithful, which diluted the impact of Trump's most ardent followers. And in some cases, it meant they only needed a fraction of the total vote to clear their primaries.
Newhouse and Valadao each only captured roughly a quarter of the primary vote on their way to securing a spot in the general election. By comparison, Cheney actually took a slightly larger share (29%) of the vote in her primary, which was open only to registered Republican voters, even as she lost to the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman by 37 points.
Murkowski was posting a stronger performance, with the latest results Wednesday showing her as the top finisher with roughly 44% of the primary vote. Unlike Newhouse and Valadao, though, she's not done with her Trump-backed challenger. Republican Kelly Tshibaka was among the four candidates who advanced to the general election, where ranked choice voting will be utilized.
There were, of course, other factors at play in these races that helped them avoid the same fate as their fellow GOP impeachment backers, the rest of whom either lost their primaries or declined to run for reelection.
Valadao and Newhouse kept relatively quiet about their feelings regarding Trump following their impeachment vote. The former President didn't even end up endorsing a primary challenger to Valadao, who was supported by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a district neighbor. As for Newhouse, his Trump-backed opponent, Loren Culp, struggled to raise money.
Murkowski was the greatest focus of the three for Trump, who traveled to Alaska for a rally last month. But she benefited in the primary from her deep ties to the state: she has served two decades in the Senate (and even won her 2010 campaign as a write-in candidate), and her father was a senator and a governor.
Still, the all-party primaries undoubtedly played a significant role -- one that may serve to bolster the argument put forth by the system's proponents. The case is that these sorts of primaries create incentives for candidates to play to the middle, rather than the most partisan elements that usually dominate primaries, resulting in a less polarized political environment overall.
That goal is still a very long way off from being realized. But for now, the all-party primary system seemed to have provided the dwindling number of impeachment-supporting Republicans their best chance for political survival.
The Point : The 2022 primary season has shown that it takes a unique set of circumstances for Republicans who have antagonized Trump to thread the needle and maintain their place in the party.
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After Wyoming defeat, Cheney prepares for the longer-term fight against Trump -- and her own political future

Jackson, Wyoming (CNN)The day after losing the Republican primary for Wyoming's House seat, Rep. Liz Cheney is positioning herself for a longer-term fight with former President Donald Trump.

The question Cheney must confront is whether there is an appetite within the Republican Party for a candidate singularly focused on serving as an antagonist for its most popular and dominant figure.
In the wake of her loss to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman on Tuesday, Cheney began building an apparatus to support her future political moves -- including a potential presidential bid as a Trump foil. Cheney acknowledged Wednesday morning that she is considering a run for president in 2024, a race that Trump is largely expected to enter soon.
"It is something I'm thinking about, and I'll make a decision in the coming months," Cheney said on NBC's "Today" on Wednesday.
Cheney's advisers told CNN she intends to wait until next year to make any decisions, when she's no longer in Congress or serving as vice chair of the House select committee investigating the events surrounding January 6, 2021. She is cognizant of appearing to politicize the findings of the committee.
However, her role on the select committee comes with the kind of spotlight that other Republican Trump critics have struggled to find. Cheney would confront the same challenge when she departs office in January, and a presidential candidacy could be the only way to address it.
The three-term congresswoman has acknowledged in recent days that she knew her strategy in the Wyoming primary, where she maintained a relentless focus on Trump in interviews and television ads despite the former President having won the state by 43 percentage points in 2020, primary wasn't popular.
The morning after her defeat, Cheney repeated the message she'd delivered on election night: She knew how to win in Wyoming, but chose to reject a strategy of cozying up to the most popular figure in her party and parroting his lies about fraud in the 2020 election.
"That path would've required that I accept, that I embrace, that I perpetuate the Big Lie," she said on NBC.
She also acknowledged that moving the GOP away from Trump's influence would be a longer-term project.
"Look, I think the Republican Party today is in very bad shape, and I think we have a tremendous amount of work to do. I think it could take several election cycles. But the country has got to have a Republican Party that's actually based on substance, based on principles," Cheney said.

Cheney channels Lincoln in PAC launch

Already, Cheney has begun building the political apparatus to support a battle with Trump.
Just hours after giving her concession speech, Cheney established a political action committee called "Great Task." That PAC, which will initially be funded by money left over from her House campaign, gives Cheney a vehicle to raise money and fund her political work.
It is the first of several next steps from Cheney, an adviser told CNN, as she starts to make good on ideas expressed in her election night speech and opens a new chapter in the wake of her landslide defeat.
The PAC's name invokes the words of Abraham Lincoln, who spoke in his Gettysburg Address of the "great task" facing the nation.
Cheney cited Lincoln at length in her remarks Tuesday night on a ranch in Jackson Hole, as the sun set over Grand Teton behind her. She even drew a parallel to his losses before he won the presidency in 1860.
"Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and House before he won the most important election of all," she said.

Post-Jan. 6 committee challenges

Cheney will have to answer questions about how to remain relevant once her work as the vice chairwoman of the House select committee has ended and she departs Congress in January 2023.
James Goldston, the veteran television producer who has spent the last several months advising the House panel, was on hand in Wyoming for Cheney's speech. He was not in Wyoming as part of his work as a special adviser to the House committee, CNN learned, but rather on assignment for his own production company for potential future projects involving Cheney.
Goldston, the former president of ABC News, was surveying the scene at Cheney's campaign event at a cattle ranch outside Jackson. He and a small film crew were taking in the picturesque landscape, with the mountains in the distance and the Wyoming prairie bathed in the evening sunlight.
Cheney worked closely with Goldston's team in presenting the committee's findings in a TV-ready fashion to a national audience. They have worked together to edit hours and hours of recordings that have brought to life the insurrection as it unfolded.
"She invited him as a friend and it has nothing to do with committee work," Jeremy Adler, a spokesman for Cheney, told CNN. Goldston declined to comment.

Outreach to Democrats, independents

Cheney's House primary loss could offer some insight into her longer-term thinking. Her campaign courted Democrats and unaffiliated voters, urging them to change their registration and vote in the Republican primary.
In the 2024 presidential election, Democrats could be facing an uncompetitive nominating contest with President Joe Biden on the ballot seeking a second term -- a prospect that could create space for more party-switching.
"Let us resolve that we will stand together -- Republicans, Democrats and independents -- against those who would destroy our republic," Cheney said in her Tuesday night speech.
Biden called Cheney following her primary loss, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to divulge the contents of the conversation, which was first reported by Bloomberg.
But a presidential race is much different than a House primary.
In Teton County, the liberal pocket of northwestern Wyoming where Cheney lives and where she won three-fourths of the vote Tuesday, Democrats who had changed their party registration to vote for Cheney in the primary were speculating about her future.
The catch for Cheney: Most said they saw Tuesday's primary as a one-time occurrence, and said they couldn't see themselves voting in a Republican presidential primary.
Sandy Buckstaff, a 67-year-old Jackson retiree, waited in line outside the Teton County Library on election day to switch his registration to vote for Cheney "even though I disagree with her on policy positions from soup to nuts."
"The Republican Party moved away from me," said Buckstaff, a former Republican who in recent years has voted for Democrats. "Watching Liz Cheney do the right thing, I thought, what the heck?"
He said he is "curious" about Cheney's future, but wouldn't vote in a GOP presidential primary for her.
"I don't see where she finds hope in that," Buckstaff said, "because the Republican Party base won't support her."
John Grant, a Republican who voted for Cheney on Tuesday, said that even though her point of view makes up only a slim share of current GOP thinking, he hopes she proceeds with a presidential bid.
"I do think she has a future," Grant said. "But I think it's going to take a while -- there are a lot of Trump supporters out there."
This story has been updated with additional developments.

CNN's Gabby Orr and Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.

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Opinion: My son's death was preventable. There are so many more like him

Janelle Lutgen, of Bernard, Iowa, is an advocate with Families United for Affordable Insulin and leads the Iowa chapter of #insulin4all, both affiliated with T1International, a nonprofit led by people with and impacted by type 1 diabetes. She is also a former chair of the Republican Central Committee in Jackson County, Iowa. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.

(CNN)On February 7, 2018, my son Jesse Lutgen, 32, was found dead in his home. Unbeknownst to me, he'd been rationing his insulin, after losing his full-time job and health insurance the previous November. Jesse had looked into Obamacare marketplace health plans for coverage, but he simply could not afford a policy on his part-time pay from a local YMCA.

The last insulin he used came from vials I had given him before he lost his insurance. They were leftovers from a diabetic friend of a friend who had died in Washington state.
This black market for insulin and other essential medications is a reality in America. One in four diabetics ration their insulin or "reported cost-related insulin underuse." Right Care Alliance, a patients and providers coalition, hasdocumented the deaths of at least 14 diabetic Americans who've died due to rationing since 2017, including my son. It's unknown how many others have passed because of diabetic complications due to rationing.
Families of diabetics who pass away look at their remaining insulin supply and realize it is liquid gold. Simply put, it's a product that means life or death for the millions of people who need it.
Quietly, under the table, advocates send insulin to diabetics. Members of online communities for diabetics ship out lifeline vials on their own dime.
What happened to my son, who felt like he had no choice but to ration his insulin, is happening all over America -- because insulin is not affordable for most people who are uninsured. A month's supply can cost over $1,000 out-of-pocket, something I only learned after Jesse was gone.
He believed in earning his own way, even while he battled a serious health condition, and didn't ask for help. Though insulin rationing doesn't always lead to death, high blood sugar levels can, when left unchecked, ravage a diabetic's body, causing irreversible long-term complications.
Advocates with T1International, a nonprofit led by people with and impacted by type 1 diabetes, and its state chapters, #insulin4all, have been fighting for change. While I am thankful for legislation that will do so much for some, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) falls short for most diabetics. It will cap insulin co-payments for Medicare beneficiaries but will not lower the list price of insulin. Instead, the high costs will be shifted elsewhere.
And uninsured diabetics, like my late son, remain vulnerable. The IRA will have no impact on list prices paid by the uninsured.
When a $35 copay cap for private insurance holders came up for a reconciliation vote during debate over the bill, the Senate parliamentarian, who oversees procedures, ruled it was not eligible because it didn't comply with budget rules.
A vote to overrule the parliamentarian failed, with most Republicans, including Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, my home state, voting no. Soon after, a 2020 video of Ernst talking about the need to lower insulin costs -- and mentioning my and Jesse's story -- went viral, with Democrats suggesting she was a hypocrite.
But my son was one of the uninsured. From the beginning, this legislation was never about saving people like him. Our story may be great fodder for campaigns and political division, but measures to lower drug list prices to help everyone are the real solution. Hopefully, the exclusion of caps for the insured will keep this issue in the forefront and prompt legislators to get to the root cause of high prices.
It's time that Congress brings a standalone bill to lower prescription costs across the board, for everyone. We need to focus on what makes a $6 vial of insulin cost $300. Let's end pay-for-delay deals where brand drug manufacturers offer patent settlements that pay generic companies not to bring lower-cost alternatives to market. Let's call for transparency in pricing from Big Pharma and pharmacy benefit managers, the intermediaries between insurance and pharmaceutical companies. These are ideas that can help lower list prices, not only for insulin but for all medications.
Many bills have been filed in the past few years to focus solely on lowering prescription drug prices, but none have been successful.
In the meantime, insulin affordability advocates have been painstakingly working on state legislation to make insulin affordable and accessible. The Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act -- or Alec's Law --in Minnesota provides a safety net for diabetics. It guarantees emergency access and long-term affordability, and it requires insulin manufacturers to be part of the solution.
Alec's Law went into effect in July 2020. And while it was met with a lawsuit filed by Big Pharma on the eve of its implementation, a judge dismissed the suit in March 2021. Today it continues to help many Minnesotans afford their life-saving insulin.
Other states have followed Minnesota's lead, including Maine and Colorado. These state laws are the real change we need to help our country's most vulnerable achieve the promise of America: the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And until the time comes when insulin is affordable and accessible to all, I will continue to fight to make it so. Because no one should have to go through what Jesse did. And no one should lose their loved one to corporate greed.
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Queen Elizabeth's Olympic stunt double jailed for attack on girlfriend

London (CNN)A UK court has sentenced Queen Elizabeth II's stunt double to 18 months in prison after he threw his girlfriend down a staircase and shattered her shoulder.

Gary Connery was convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday, a spokesman for the court told CNN on Wednesday.
In addition to a prison sentence for the attack, which took place in October 2020, the judge also imposed a restraining order, the spokesman said.
"It is abundantly clear that you have shown absolutely no remorse for what happened and accept no fault on your behalf," Judge Nigel Daly told 53-year-old Connery, according to the PA Media news agency.
At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, Connery stood in for the British monarch in a skit in which the Queen met James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, before they both appeared to get into a helicopter to fly to the Olympic stadium.
Viewers then saw what appeared to be the Queen and Bond, but were in fact Connery and a fellow stuntman, parachute into the stadium.

CNN's Jorge Engels contributed to this story.

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Kanye West's Yeezy Gap clothes are being displayed in giant trash bags

Written by Leah Dolan, CNN

Kanye West -- who changed his name to Ye in 2021 -- has come under fire for what's being described as a visual merchandising strategy at the Gap. Instead of displaying the latest Yeezy x Gap collection on traditional hangers and t-shirt plinths, the clothes appear in giant trash bags dotted around the shop floor.

In a

viral post

now liked by more than 57,000 people, a New York-based Twitter user said Gap employees "won't help you find your size too, you just have to just dig through everything." The photo spread across the internet, with many declaring the unconventional display technique "

a social experiment

."

Representatives for Gap and Ye did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"I love Kanye," another

Twitter user posted

, "but couldn't imagine paying $200 for basic clothes out of a bag on the floor."

This isn't the first time West's brand Yeezy has been at the center of controversy. In 2020, Yeezy received backlash after unveiling two new sneaker products titled "Israfil" and "Asriel" -- the names of Islamic angels in the Muslim faith. Many denounced the move as blasphemous and disrespectful, and a petition to boycott the shoes with over 2,000 signatures circulated online.

Up against the convenience of online shopping, more and more brands are devising off-the-wall physical retail experiences in the hopes of triggering a viral moment and enticing consumers to visit brick-and-mortar locations. In May, cult-favorite French label Jacquemus opened

"Le Bleu" at Selfridges

London -- a pop-up space designed like a giant, icy-blue tiled bathroom. Just last week, Danish brand Ganni promoted a new collaboration by turning a store into a

greengrocer

, allowing shoppers to not only pick up pieces from the new collection, but local produce too.

The unusual Yeezy Gap store display could be a marketing stunt, aimed at drawing attention back toward his ongoing partnership with the retailer. But while other labels are striving to go bigger, West as always appears to be going against the grain -- seemingly making a louder impact with a minimalistic approach.

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Little League World Series player critically hurt in bunk bed fall receives supportive video from MLB star Mookie Betts

(CNN)The 12-year-old player in the Little League World Series who fell from a bunk bed is no longer under sedation and even received a supportive video message Wednesday from his favorite Major League Baseball player, according to an Instagram account set-up to provide updates on his condition.

Easton Oliverson of Utah's Snow Canyon Little League suffered a fractured skull after falling from a bunk bed at the players' dormitory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, early Monday morning, his team told CNN. He is being treated at Geisinger Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Support for Easton came flooding in after news of his injury made headlines. The Brigham Young University football team and Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts submitted supportive videos through Instagram for Easton.
"Hey Easton, it's Mookie Betts. I just want you to know that we are praying for you, thinking of you and I hope to see you soon, my man," Betts, known to be Easton's favorite player, said on video Wednesday.
An additional post Wednesday on Easton's Instagram also provided updates on the Little Leaguer.
"This morning's updates have us all in tears of joy," the post read, accompanied by a picture of Easton and a video of him eating from a spoon with eyes closed in his hospital bed.
The post also said Easton asked for water Wednesday morning, which his doctors said was good since it usually takes about a week or two before patients who have had a breathing tube removed want to eat or drink.
"While Easton is making TREMENDOUS progress, he still has a very long road ahead," the post read.
The injury happened early Monday morning, according to a statement from Little League International. St. George News reports Easton fell out of his bed in his sleep in the middle of the night, citing a source within the team.
Easton was airlifted to the local children's hospital, where he underwent surgery to stop the bleeding and stabilize him, according to his Instagram account. He was then put into a medically induced coma, his team said.
Easton's father, Jace, who is an assistant coach on his son's team, said in a statement, "There was a lot of blood in his brain and a lot of pressure being caused. He had what was called an epidural hematoma. He fractured his skull and in the meantime punctured an artery outside the brain which caused the bleeding."
The Little League World Series released a statement to CNN Wednesday saying the bunk beds at the players' dorms did not have safety rails and have since been removed from the dorms.
"Since 1992, Little League has used institutional-style bunk beds to offer the most space for the players to enjoy their time in the dorms. While these beds do not have guard rails, Little League is unaware of any serious injuries ever occurring during that period of time," the league's statement read. "Out of an abundance of caution, Little League has made the decision to remove all bunks from within the dorms and have each bed frame individually on the floor."
The league said it would use all available resources to "support the player, his family, and his coaches and teammates, as we navigate this unfortunate situation."
Easton's Snow Canyon Little League team is scheduled to play its first game of the Little League World Series Friday afternoon. Snow Canyon is the first team from Utah to make it to the series in the 75-year history of the tournament.

CNN's Jennifer Henderson contributed to this report.

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Strippers at LA strip club want to join actors' union

New York (CNN Business)Strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, have filed with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to join the Actors Equity Association, a union of performers and other show business professionals.

"We like what we do. We would like our jobs even more if we had basic worker protections," said one of the strippers who works under the stage name Velveeta, in statement released by the union.
Among the issues that the strippers say they want addressed are the club's security guards repeatedly failing to protect dancers from threatening and abusive behavior from patrons.
"We're like so many other workers who have learned that it's not a choice between suffering abuse or quitting," she said. "With a union, together, we can make needed improvements to our workplace."
No members of Star Garden Enterprise, the owner of the club, could be reached for comment Wednesday. They also did not respond to a request for comment for an earlier story by CNN.
There would be about 30 strippers eligible to vote on whether or not to join a union, according to Actors Equity, a 109-year old union that represents 51,000 actors and other professionals who work in everything from Broadway shows in New York City to onstage performers at Disney World and dozens of theaters across the country.
"Strippers are live entertainers, and while some aspects of their job are unique, they have much in common with other Equity members who dance for a living," said Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle. "In my conversations with them, these dancers reported consistent compensation issues - including significant wage theft - along with health and safety risks and violations. They want health insurance and other benefits, like workers' compensation."
Strippers at the club have been holding informational pickets since March to protest working conditions, ever since two performers wer fired eand more than a dozen others signed a petition demanding their reinstatement. There have been 15 strippers locked out of working at the club since then, they say, and an unfair labor practice complaint was filed against management with the NLRB. The union is arguing that those locked out strippers should be allowed to vote in the union election.
A stripper who goes by the name Velveeta, who said she hasn't worked since March, said in an interview Wednesday that $50,000 in donations has been raised for an "action fund," similar to a strike fund, to help support the locked out strippers.
She is surviving on help from the fund, she said, and from savings and some acting jobs while some of the strippers have found work at other clubs. She wants to have a union to improve working conditions at Star Garden, rather than have to find work elsewhere.
"Star Garden is an example of the worst of the worst. But every club has problems," she said. "Some clubs are better than others, but none are ideal."
Velveeta, 31, has been working as a stripper for five years. She said the clubs don't pay anything, and demand half the strippers' tips.
"Sometimes you can leave with less than minimum wage, if it's slow," she said. "But if you have a good customer come through you can make up to $500 in a night."
There has not been a union of strippers in the United States since the nation's only unionized strip club, the Lusty Lady in San Francisco, closed in 2013, according to Actors Equity.
In many US locations strippers are classified as independent contractors rather than strip club employees, and organizing them into a union poses significant legal hurdles. California has protections for many workers classified as employees who might be considered independent contractors elsewhere.
While about one third of government workers belong to a union, according to Labor Department statistics, only 6.1% of workers employed by businesses are union members. Many workers in film and television belong to various unions, but most private sector union members are concentrated in a few specific industries, such as manufacturing, airlines, construction and health care.
There have been increasing efforts in recent years to organize workers in service sector businesses, such as the union organizing drive now going on at Starbucks.
-- CNN's Natasha Chen contributed to this report
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Secret Service notified Capitol Police on evening of January 6, 2021, of earlier threat directed at Pelosi

(CNN)The US Secret Service, on the evening of January 6, 2021, notified the US Capitol Police that it had discovered an online threat -- made days earlier -- directed toward House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to an email notification obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington through a public records request.

The social media posting from Dec. 31, 2020, included Pelosi among a list of "Enemies," along with comments such as "January 6 starts #1776 all over again!!" and "Fight for EVERYTHING." The list, which was posted by a Parler user, also included Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
On January 6, at 5:55 p.m. ET, the Secret Service shared the social media comment with the Capitol Police, writing: "Good afternoon, The US Secret Service is passing notification to the US Capitol Police regarding discovery of a social media threat directed toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi."
It's unclear when the post was discovered by Secret Service or if any other action was taken by the agency. Threats against Pelosi are common, and she is not a protectee of the Secret Service.
The Parler user had been on the Secret Service's radar since at least January 4, 2021. That's when the agency discovered a threatening post from that account toward then-President-elect Biden that said, "We CANNOT allow #Biden to enter the white house," according to the email obtained by CREW.
The email goes on to note that additional research identified more "potentially threatening comments" on the same and related accounts, including the one toward Pelosi. Another comment by the Parler user on January 2 said: "Biden will die shortly after being elected. Patriot are gonna tear his head off. Prison is his best case scenario."
At the time of the notification, the person who posted the comments was not identified due to a "lack of identifying information." It's unclear if their identity was later discovered.
"While we do not comment on issues pertaining to protective intelligence, the United States Secret Service has an outstanding working relationship with all law enforcement agencies in the National Capitol Region," Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the US Secret Service, said in a statement.
"The Secret Service works tirelessly to share pertinent information with our law enforcement partners. In the communication where there was a reference to Speaker Pelosi, that information was provided to the US Capitol Police for their situational awareness."
This story has been updated with a statement from the Secret Service.
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The coworkers who fell in love when they shared a hotel room

(CNN) — When Ida Skibenes pulled up outside the Solstrand Hotel, her stomach was in knots, flipping between nerves and excitement.

The Solstrand is one of Norway's most beautiful hotels, located just outside of Bergen, framed by fjords and home to over 125 years of history.

"It looks like a yellow castle, almost. It's very beautiful. And it's a very quiet place, there's no traffic, it's down by the sea," Ida tells CNN Travel.

Every year, Ida's Bergen-based workplace decamped to the dreamy surrounds of Solstrand for a couple of days of remote working. That year, 2014, was Ida's first at the company. Her colleagues had regaled her with stories of Solstrand and she was excited. But her excitement wasn't really about escaping from the city and relaxing among the mountains. It was all about Hanna Aardal.

Hanna was Ida's coworker. When Ida started at the company, the two quickly clicked, but they were in different places in their lives. At the time, Ida was married, and focused on her relationship and settling into the new job. Meanwhile, Hanna was a single parent whose teenage daughter had just moved to the US to study for a year.

But as the months rolled on, their circumstances changed. Ida's relationship fell apart, and she went through a divorce. Hanna adjusted to her daughter being abroad, and started spending more time socializing with coworkers. With time, Hanna and Ida grew closer.

"Our energies matched," is how Ida puts it. "It was always more fun to be at work when Hanna was at work."

"I think we kind of had the same kind of humor, so we became friends quickly," says Hanna.

Hanna and Ida started working together on a fun side project, a short mockumentary in the vein of "The Office," showcasing the quirks of their workplace. The film was set to be screened at the Solstrand retreat.

The historic Solstrand Hotel in Norway played an important role in Hanna and Ida's relationship.

Solstrand/Montag

The two worked on the project out of hours, and started sharing regular dinners and drinks. They messaged regularly, often texting one another goodnight.

Reflecting on this period today, Ida and Hanna suggest they were "dating without realizing."

"I was used to dating men, and I had never been in a relationship with a woman," says Hanna. "Looking back, it's kind of obvious that we had feelings for each other."

Ida didn't know if Hanna would be open to dating a woman. And she didn't know if her feelings were reciprocated, or if they were all in her head. Still, Ida felt there were signs suggesting the relationship was something more.

A few weeks before the Solstrand trip, the two had stayed up late at Hanna's home, chatting. When, at 2 a.m., Ida suggested she should head home, Hanna had taken her hand and asked her not to leave. It felt like a "turning point," at least to Ida. But she left all the same -- they'd both been drinking, and she felt the conversation had to be addressed under different circumstances.

Solstrand, Ida decided, was the perfect opportunity. Especially when Ida and Hanna were coincidentally chosen to room together.

"I had feelings for Hanna, and I definitely had a crush on her," says Ida. "But if it was all in my head, then I needed to clarify that. And we were going to work together. So I just decided that if we end up in the same room, that's a sign for me to actually do something about it."

Plus, Solstrand was a beautiful, romantic setting.

"At least if she had turned me down, I wouldn't be in like this dump somewhere. I would still be in a beautiful hotel," jokes Ida.

Opening up

Hanna (left) and Ida became close friends in the lead up to the Solstrand company retreat.

Ida Skibenes

Ida brought up the topic at the end of the first day in Solstrand. It was late in the evening, and the two women were lying in their separate twin beds.

Hanna's response surprised them both.

"I was kind of starting to say 'I know that we have become close friends and everything, I love you like a friend.' But then, while I was saying it, I realized that of course, it's something more," recalls Hanna.

"I freaked out when she told me that," says Ida. " I was like, 'Wait a minute. This is not happening.'"

After the initial shock, the conversation continued.

"We talked, we kissed. And then we kind of just settled down and decided that we would figure things out eventually," says Ida.

The next day, Ida and Hanna were preoccupied with a busy day of meetings and presentations. They didn't address what happened the evening before, but it was a tradition at their company that everyone presented greeting cards to their Solstrand roommates at the end of the trip.

In Ida and Hanna's cards, they put their burgeoning feelings in writing. And Ida excitedly messaged her close friends the news.

"I texted, like, three thumbs up, 'We made out!'" says Ida.

"But other than that, we kept it quiet for a long time."

Solstrand is surrounded by Norwegian fjords and mountains.

Solstrand/Montag

Hanna needed some time to come to terms with her newly acknowledged feelings.

"I had been in some relationships, but mostly I had been a single parent and very self-sufficient in a way, and not very good at close relationships. So I think it was really scary and exciting at the same time -- and confusing."

Both Ida and Hanna were also aware that they weren't just risking a friendship, but a working relationship too. For Hanna, this added to her trepidation.

"I think I was really afraid to mess things up between the two of us," says Hanna. "Because we were working together, it would have had greater consequences if I messed up -- which I guessed I would -- at some point."

Ida and Hanna took it slowly, but they gradually grew even closer. Six months after their conversation at Solstrand, the two were on another work trip, and they decided they were ready to tell their colleagues. Later, back home in Bergen, Hanna shared the news with her daughter.

"She was really happy for us," says Hanna, recalling that her daughter joked it would have been weird to have a man in their house of women.

"She came out to us, two years later, so it's a very gay family," adds Hanna.

Return to Solstrand

Ida proposed to Hanna on a return visit to Solstrand.

Solstrand/Montag

Hanna and Ida moved in together in 2016, not long after they shared the news of their relationship with their loved ones. They started discussing marriage, and decided that, when the time felt right, Ida would be the one to propose.

"I love surprises, and Ida hates surprises," Hanna explains.

Ida knew exactly where she wanted to propose: Solstrand. Three years after they voiced their feelings aloud for the first time, Ida and Hanna found themselves back at the historic hotel on the annual company retreat. The company had just broadcast the traditional office "mockumentary," when Ida interrupted proceedings.

"She just got up in front of everyone and said, 'There's another video' and she gave me a box of Kleenex because I'm a crier, I cry all the time. And then she had made this really sweet and romantic video with music, portraying our relationship, and ending with the proposal."

Wiping away happy tears, Hanna said yes.

"Would have been really awkward if I hadn't," she jokes today.

Hanna and Ida got engaged at the Solstrand hotel, and got married in Bergen in 2022.

Ragnhild Storsletten Åse

"I was very nervous," recalls Ida. "Maybe I told, like, a couple of people before we went, but five minutes before I was going to show the movie, I ran around and I told everyone."

Her colleagues were delighted, and encouraged a panicked Ida to go for it.

"I had a complete meltdown, got two glasses of wine and two cigarettes, and then I was good to go," says Ida.

"It felt very right to do it at that hotel with those people, because they've kind of tagged along for the entire entire journey of our relationship. So it was exciting, and a lot of fun. Especially the part where we got to celebrate with so many people that love us and want us to be happy."

Following some postponed pandemic wedding plans, Ida and Hanna got married in summer 2022. The long-awaited ceremony took place outside, in a Bergen park near the couple's home.

"It was a really special celebration," says Hanna, recalling a day of sunshine and festivities.

Embarking on a journey

Ida and Hanna hope to one day celebrate 50 years of marriage together.

Ida Skibenes

Hanna and Ida no longer work together. When Ida left the company a few years ago, her colleagues gave her a gift card for a romantic weekend away at Solstrand. The couple look forward to returning, and hope one day to celebrate 50 years of marriage at their favorite hotel.

Hanna and Ida describe their years together so far as a "fascinating and fun journey."

"It's been this feeling of having your best friend there, all the way. Like, whatever happens, you have your best friend, and it makes you feel like things are going to work out eventually," says Ida, who adds that becoming a step parent has also "changed her life" and taught her a lot.

Hanna says she's learned a lot from Ida too.

"Ida is very brave," says Hanna. "She's a lot wiser than me when it comes to relationships and emotions. And she is very brave in daring to talk about things, when things get tough."

"We got close very fast and kind of have this complete trust in each other, so we can be ourselves. I've never been in such a close relationship before and it changed my life in many different ways. And also having a partner who also loves my daughter and being a family -- a bigger family."

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