Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn’t expect: suing members of his own party for defamation.

On Friday morning, Rasner will settle one case against an Iowa man who called him a “pedophile” under several of his campaign’s Facebook posts. Rasner is pursuing another case against a former GOP Wyoming state senator who he alleges led a whisper campaign accusing him of sexual misconduct.

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” said Rasner, 42, who came out when he was 20. “This just isn’t the Wyoming I knew or thought I knew. The state needs to come to terms with the hate and ignorance that’s fueled death threats and violence against me, all because of my sexuality.”

Rasner, a financial adviser who ran for Senate in 2024, has spent $1.2 million of his own money on his campaigns. He’s run as a loyal Trump Republican each time; in 2025, he got some national attention for publicizing a personal $47 billion bid to buy TikTok, offering a “clean break from China” on the president’s terms.

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