![K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For August 22nd, 2018 – Morning](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2018/01/980-K2-Radio11.jpg?w=980&q=75)
K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For August 22nd, 2018 – Morning
CHEYENNE, WYO. (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TRIED HIS BEST TO APPEAL TO COAL COUNTRY BUT, AMID A TRUCKLOAD OF BAD POLITICAL NEWS, THE TOP COAL-PRODUCING STATE DIDN'T LOVE HIM BACK. INSTEAD, WYOMING VOTERS CHOSE SECRETARY OF STATE MARK GORDON, A RANCHER WHO GREW UP AT THE FOOT OF THE BIGHORN MOUNTAINS, OVER POLITICAL MEGA-DONOR FOSTER FRIESS IN THE STATE'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR GOVERNOR. TRUMP HAD ENDORSED FRIESS ON TWITTER AS VOTING GOT UNDERWAY TUESDAY.
===================================
CHEYENNE, WYO. (AP) - REPUBLICAN U.S. REP. LIZ CHENEY WILL FACE A LITTLE-KNOWN DEMOCRAT FROM LARAMIE IN HER FIRST CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION. BUSINESSMAN GREG HUNTER BEAT LARAMIE ATTORNEY TRAVIS HELM TO WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR WYOMING'S LONE U.S. HOUSE SEAT TUESDAY.
==================================
U.S. SEN. JOHN BARRASSO HAS FENDED OFF A WELL-FUNDED CHALLENGER IN WYOMING'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.
BARRASSO ON TUESDAY BEAT FIVE OPPONENTS, INCLUDING INVESTOR AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY LECTURER DAVE DODSON OF JACKSON HOLE. DODSON PUT $1 MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY TOWARD A CAMPAIGN THAT QUESTIONED BARRASSO'S TIES TO CORPORATE INTERESTS AND WASHINGTON POLITICAL INSIDERS.
BARRASSO WON WITH HELP FROM LONG-STANDING NAME RECOGNITION AND AN ENDORSEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. TRUMP WON WYOMING BY THE LARGEST MARGIN OF ANY STATE IN 2016.
============================
DID THE CITY OF CASPER AND POLICE CHIEF KEITH MCPHEETERS ORDER INJURED POLICE OFFICER JACOB CARLSON BACK TO FULL TIME DUTY BEFORE HE WAS FULLY RECOVERED FROM LIFE-THREATENING WOUNDS? THAT WAS THE SUBJECT OF TWO PRESS CONFERENCES ON TUESDAY...
More From K2 Radio
![Airplane Crash North of Gillette Results in Fatalities and Wildfire](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-sheriff.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![PHOTOS: Which State Has the Best Looking Cruiser? Help Wyoming Win by Voting](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-wyoming.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Vehicular Homicide Conviction](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-drunk.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Wyoming Governor Orders Wyoming State Flag to be Flown at Half Staff at Capitol in Cheyenne and Laramie County](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-cap.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Casper’s Freiberg Family Establishes Scholarship](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-Untitled-design-56.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![23-Year-Old Motorcyclist Killed in Casper on 12th and CY Avenue](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-paul-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Wyoming Senators and Colleagues Declare July 27 National Day of the American Cowboy](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-Untitled-design-55.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Life Steps Campus Community Garden in Casper Designated as a USDA People’s Garden](http://townsquare.media/site/101/files/2024/07/attachment-garden1.jpg?w=980&q=75)