'Thanks a lot, Trump': Wyoming conservatives divided ahead of US midterms

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 President Donald 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. ...