Will Chuck Gray win Wyoming's House seat, or Steve Friess?
What is a Wyoming House seat worth? Steve Friess has lent his own campaign $2m to find out by tonight
Nine Republicans are running for Wyoming's only seat in the House of Representatives, and through June 30, they had raised $7.13m between them. Roughly $6m of that was their own money, lent to their own campaigns. Steve Friess put in $2m, Reid Rasner put in $1.71m, and Chuck Gray put in $1.15m. The WyoFile tally shows 85% of all money in the race coming from the candidates, which is quite strange to see in a state of 580,000 people.
The seat is open because Harriet Hageman gave it up to run for the Senate. In 2022, she beat a sitting member of Congress named Liz Cheney 66.3% to 28.9%, on 170,665 votes cast. That is the whole electorate $6m is being spent on tonight, and most of it already knows Chuck Gray, who has been Secretary of State since that same election.
Though that doesn't stop Friess from spending the most and spending it from Jackson, in the one corner of Wyoming that votes unlike the rest of it. Despite all his efforts, Gray still holds the only endorsement anyone fought over, and perhaps ever needs, from the state party central committee, 33 to 4 with 14 abstentions.
Which is why we think betting on Chuck Gray at 73 cents to capture a 37% return on our bet is the smartest move.
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