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Liz Cheney primary challenger Anthony Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old girl when he was 18


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Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican who has emerged as one of the most high-profile primary challengers to Rep. Liz Cheney, said in a Facebook Live video Thursday he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18.Bouchard said they later got married with the blessing of her mother, and took care of the child. He added that they got divorced about three years later, and she died by suicide at the age of 20.The candidate made the disclosure after noting that people had been investigating the matter in regard to his campaign to unseat Cheney, R-Wyo. Cheney has attracted the ire of pro-Trump Republicans for her denunciations of the former president.Bouchard said he and the woman, whom he did not name, were under "a lot of pressure, pressure to abort a baby. And there was pressure to have her banished from their family." LIZ CHENEY, LIKELY TO LOST GOP LEADERSHIP JOB, ALSO FACING SERIOUS CHALLENGE BACK IN WYOMINGOn choosing not to abort the child and to get married, Bouchard said, "I did the right thing.""This is really a message about how dirty politics is. He also said that his son now "almost become my estranged son" due to some of the choices that the son has made, although he added, "I still love him, just like when he was born." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"It's just a damn shame that we've got to drag it all out," Bouchard added.

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