In Wyoming, the Republican primary is the election. Everyone knows it. The Democrats have not won a statewide race since 2006, and President Donald Trump carried the Cowboy State by nearly 46 points in 2024. So when voters went to the polls Tuesday, they were not shopping for a November cliffhanger. They were choosing the next governor.
They chose Eric Barlow.
The Gillette rancher, Marine veteran, veterinarian, and former House speaker beat a four-way field that included Trump-endorsed State Superintendent Megan Degenfelder and retired Marine Col. Brent Bien, who had the blessing of the Wyoming Republican Party. Unofficial results put Barlow at 58,820 votes, Degenfelder at 38,739, and Bien at 30,843. Professional bull rider Curt Blake barely registered.
Barlow will face Democrat Kenneth Casner on November 3. Casner ran unopposed in his own primary. That is not a contest. That is a formality in a state where every statewide office already belongs to Republicans.
Wyoming Still Picks Its Own
The national press will treat this as a Trump snub. Spare us. Wyoming did not reject the president. It refused to let an endorsement, a party committee, or a stack of out-of-state attack ads do the thinking for it.
Degenfelder had the bigger name and the louder friends. Trump backed her in January and kept backing her. Harriet Hageman backed her too. Bien had the state party’s stamp and the Freedom Caucus energy.
Barlow had something less fashionable. He had fourteen years in the legislature, a ranch southwest of Gillette that has fed his family for generations, and enough sense to knock on doors in all 23 counties instead of waiting for a telerally to do the work.
There’s been a lot of out of state money and agendas and voices trying to tell us things that aren’t true. And today Wyoming showed up, and showed us that Wyoming’s voice matters most.
That is Barlow, the night he won. He also said he ran for Wyoming, not against anybody, and that he looks forward to working with Trump. Good. A conservative state does not need a civil war. It needs a governor who will keep Washington out of the barn.
The attack shops tried anyway. Outside PACs accused him of hiking fuel taxes, green-lighting child sex changes, and sending money to illegal aliens. The record is uglier for the people writing the ads than for the man they targeted. Barlow fought to keep fuel taxes down. He voted for Chloe’s Law to strip licenses from doctors who chemically or surgically maim children. He has said he will fiercely defend the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life. Wyoming voters heard the noise, then ignored it.
A Rare Changing of the Guard
Gov. Mark Gordon is leaving after two terms. He flirted with challenging Wyoming’s term-limit law and then did the honorable thing and stepped aside. That opened more than a governor’s race. Harriet Hageman won the GOP nod for the Senate seat Cynthia Lummis is vacating.
Secretary of State Chuck Gray won the crowded primary for Wyoming’s lone House seat. The superintendent’s office, the secretary of state’s office, and half the state’s political furniture are turning over at once.
For a place this conservative, that is a lot of new hands on the wheel. It is also a reminder of why term limits exist. Power is supposed to change. In California, the same machine just keeps grinding. In Wyoming, a rancher from Campbell County can still rise the old way.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. A state that still treats property, life, and local government as more than campaign slogans is closer to that blessing than the coastal laboratories that sneer at it.
Barlow is not a messiah. He is a man who has shown up, passed bills, and run a ranch. In November he will almost certainly become governor. The job then is the same as the campaign. Keep D.C. out of Wyoming’s business. Protect girls’ sports and unborn children. Defend the gun rights of law-abiding people, including those who have paid their debt and earned restoration. And do not forget who sent him.
Wyoming already knows what it is. Tuesday it simply named the next man to guard it.
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