Rep. Liz Cheney (R) seemingly compared her situation to those that former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant triumphantly faced during the Civil War.

Cheney lost the Wyoming Republican primary by nearly 40 points, an even larger margin than polls had predicted.

Speaking to supporters in Jackson, Wyoming, Cheney reminded them that Lincoln lost congressional elections before being elected to the White House.

She said of Lincoln:

The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all. Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our Union and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.

Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task remaining before us, Lincoln said, “That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth.”

After taking shots at former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Cheney invoked Grant and heroic actions he took on the battlefield as a Union general in the Civil War.