A new ad released in Wyoming attacks GOP Senate candidate Liz Cheney of being pro-gay marriage despite several instances where she said she opposes it, NBC News reported.
Cheney, daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, is running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming against incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi -- much to his dismay.
The advertisement was launched by the American Principles Fund, which is headed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- daughter of former Arkansas governor and onetime presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
It portrays Cheney is a social liberal despite a statement suggesting otherwise when she said she was "strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage" earlier this year.
"The unilateral truce on social issues within the GOP is bad for our party and wrong for our country - our core values are under attack, and we will stand for those who stand for what's right," Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Cheney previously said that she believes marriage should be up to the states to decide.
"I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves," Cheney said of her belief.
The conservative super PAC also criticizes her for making previous appearances on MSNBC and claims she "campaigns as a conservative" in her state but spoke out "against the marriage amendment" in Washington. It features Cheney speaking in 2009 where she said she "would not like to see a constitutional amendment" banning gay marriage and supported government benefits for same-sex couples.
"I applaud for example the State Department decision to extend benefits to same-sex partners around the world," Cheney said in 2009.
Cheney's sister, Mary, is openly gay and criticized her sister for her stance.
"I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage," Mary Cheney said on her Facebook page, according to the New York Times.
