“If you think Washington is working well, then I think it’s a logical decision to send somebody who has made their whole career in the Washington bureaucracy, like Liz Cheney,” Stubson said.

Cheney said in her final statement she was a fourth-generation Wyomingite who was proud to be raising a fifth generation here.

“When my relatives came here first in 1907, they were among the folks who came because they cared deeply about freedom, because they understood what it meant to live in a place that self-determination was honored,” she said.

Those values now are under attack from regulatory overreach by the federal government, she said.

Moments later, Rammell skipped any summary of his campaign, launching straight into attack.

“Liz, you need to stop feeding us a line that you’re a fourth-generation Wyoming person. Everybody in Wyoming knows that you spent 30 years in Virginia. You can stop with that line that you know anything about Wyoming,” he said.

Cheney retorted, chuckling: “When did you come to Wyoming, Rex? I’m trying to remember. Was it last year?”