Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) announced Tuesday that she will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who said last week that she will retire at the end of her current term.
“In the House, as I did in my private law practice, I have fought every day for the constitutional rights of every individual citizen and to protect the sovereignty of this nation,” Hageman, 63, said in a statement. “As I announce my candidacy to continue to represent Wyoming, now as a United States senator, I humbly ask the voters for their support.”
Hageman praised Lummis for “her distinguished and admirable service,” saying the retiring senator “leaves a legacy of over four decades of principled, conservative leadership, and Wyoming and America are better for it.”
Lummis, 71, said last week that she would not seek a second term because she no longer had the energy required to serve in the Senate.
So far, only one other Republican, military veteran Jimmy Skovgard, has filed for the GOP primary.
Hageman has represented Wyoming’s at-large House district since 2023. She won the seat after defeating former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in the 2022 Republican primary, a race in which she had the backing of President Trump. Cheney, a leading GOP critic of Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, served on the House select committee that investigated the riot.
Given Wyoming’s strong Republican lean, the winner of the GOP primary is widely expected to win the general election next year.
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