Donald Trump renewed his support for Harriet Hageman on the eve of the Wyoming Senate race, backing the Republican as Wyoming voters chose a successor to Cynthia Lummis. Hageman was running against Democrat James Byrd, a former state representative.
Trump wrote that Hageman has “[She has] my Complete and Total Endorsement and will never let you down.” The endorsement came after he first backed her in December 2025 and after she won the August Republican primary with 62.7% of the vote against four challengers.
Cynthia Lummis seat
The race centered on the seat held by Cynthia Lummis, who said in December 2025 that she would not seek re-election. Her term ends in January 2027, so the winner will not only decide the immediate successor but also occupy a seat that has drawn attention far beyond Wyoming.
Lummis has been the Senate’s loudest bitcoin advocate and crypto’s most visible ally on Capitol Hill. That is why the contest has pulled in interest from Washington to the broader crypto industry, which has spent this cycle trying to shape Senate math.
Hageman and James Byrd
Hageman also enters the race with a record that reaches into the crypto fight in Congress. She voted yes on the CLARITY Act in July of last year, backed the GENIUS Act the same day, and supported the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.
Those votes matter because the CLARITY Act passed the House 294-134 before stalling in the Senate, where a September cloture vote failed 49-50 and no Democrats voted to proceed. The GENIUS Act cleared the chamber 308-122 and later became law, while the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act passed 219-210.
Senate math in Washington
The race also sat inside a wider betting picture. Bettors on Kalshi and Polymarket favored Democrats to sweep both chambers, even as Hageman was favored in Wyoming and Fairshake reported more than $193 million in cash on hand in January 2026.
That split left the Wyoming Senate race with two tracks at once: a local contest for Lummis’s seat and a larger fight over which party would shape the next round of Senate votes. Under the same math, the winner was set to take office in January 2027, making the result important well beyond the state line.
