on july 16, 2013, cheney announced that she would run for the senate in 2014 from the state of wyoming as a republican, challenging the incumbent republican senator mike enzi. the national republican senatorial committee said it would back enzi, as was policy. cheney was expected to receive strong fundraising, but faced concerns about the fact she moved to wyoming in fall 2012. in the video announcing her candidacy, she noted that the cheney family first came to wyoming in 1852. her father served wyoming in the u.s. house of representatives from 1979 to 1989.