Vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney listens to Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testify during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol hearing to present previously unseen material and hear witness testimony in Cannon Building, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

(CNN)Former President Donald Trump left office over a year and a half ago, and yet he is still dominating the news. Whether it be the FBI searching Mar-a-Lago or the Republican primaries in August, you might forget that President Joe Biden is the one who currently lives at the White House.

Speaking of those primaries, another Republican member of Congress who voted to impeach Trump went down to defeat this week when Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler conceded.

We'll begin our roundup of the week in electoral politics with a different Republican who voted to impeach Trump and has been at the forefront of anti-Trump Republicans in Congress: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.

Cheney looks on the precipice of big loss

I'm going to cut right to the chase and say that it will take a small miracle for Cheney for her to win Tuesday's Republican primary for Wyoming's lone House seat. Statistically improbable things happen, but Cheney has both the polling and history against her.

The truth is that Cheney has been an underdog for re-election since she voted to impeach Trump at the beginning of 2021. Trump is the dominant figure in the GOP and voting to impeach Trump has turned out to be a sin in the voters' minds that many have not forgiven.

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For Cheney specifically, you can see this is in the CES polls of Wyoming voters taken in late 2020 and then late 2021. Cheney's disapproval rating in this deeply Republican state went from 26% before her vote to impeach to 72% afterward.