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Famous for its cowboy culture, Wyoming is the least populated, the most rural and the most conservative of all the US states. With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, our reporters James André and Sylvain Rousseau travelled across this Republican stronghold and found that the party of US President Donald Trump is deeply divided in the Cowboy State. Come election season in the United States, news networks tend to flock to the swing states, the battlegrounds that shape the outcome of the vote.
Two weeks ahead of the US midterm elections, FRANCE 24 decided to go in the opposite direction and visit the reddest of the red states: Wyoming. US PresidentDonald Trump carried 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming in his three presidential runs. The state is so overwhelmingly Republican that the decisive vote is not the midterm election there, but rather the Republican primaries that took place on August 18.
The results are very clear. In 2024, Wyoming voters had given an outright majority to the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, a hard-right organisation that emerged in the wake of Trump's MAGA movement. Wyoming was the first and only state to offer this national movement a majority.
In the 2026 primaries, the Freedom Caucus was aiming for a supermajority in both chambers of the Wyoming Congress. But it got a spectacular rebuke from voters, losing its majority in the state House of Representatives and official posts across the board. This electoral defeat is significant because the Freedom Caucus is the local incarnation of a form of "ultra-Trumpism".
For two years, its lawmakers imported a hardline version of Trump's methods and agenda to Wyoming. They cut budgets and passed bills aligned with their conservative views. They sought to reform education, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.
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