In 2020, Representative Elizabeth Cheney (R, Wyoming) won the Republican party's primary for her congressional seat with more than 70% of the vote. Just two years later, she was roundly defeated in her party's primary for the same seat, losing to a Trump-endorsed newcomer. Regarding her failure to achieve 2020's overwhelmingly winning results, Representative Cheney had this to say:
“I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear. But it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic....That was a path I could not and would not take”*
Within the last two years, Representative Cheney was stripped of her party's congressional leadership because, in the absence of evidence supporting a fraudulent election, she did what a reasonable person would and accepted the election's outcome. Representative Cheney was censured by her own party apparently, for holding to her oath to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution.
Representative Cheney acted with the highest degree of service over self by choosing stick with the principles embodied in her oath of office instead of taking on self-serving tactics designed just to get re-elected. Representative Cheney made this choice knowing full well the personal consequences.
*Quote from the 17 Aug 2022 New York Times, Liz Cheney Invokes Lincoln, Grant, in Concession Speech.
