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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, November 7th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

For former and future President Trump, his victory speech on Wednesday morning was a short one – only 25 minutes. But in that time frame, he mentioned one industry: energy. And that mention has Wyoming oil and gas producers excited.

Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean said Trump's remarks Wednesday go along with what he said during the campaign.

"he said things like, drill, baby drill. And he's called the climate change a hoax, and he's called the Green New Deal a scam. So I think it, it seems pretty clear that he's gonna, he's going to do some things to help oil and gas. What those things are? We'll just have to wait and see as his administration takes office and things unfold"

So far, Trump has not had many specifics about what he will do on any of these particular policy points, though his previous administration is perhaps a starting point for an idea about what actions he might take.

Read the full story HERE.

Spending money pays off is a general rule in politics, but Tuesday's general election in Wyoming shows that's not always the case.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that for the most part, those who spent more in Tuesday's general election in Wyoming were successful — but not always.

"There was a number of candidates who ran campaigns that were reasonably competitive, campaigns headed into the general election that ended up outspending their opponents, but still losing the election. This was most notable in some of the Albany County elections, where every Republican House candidate outspent their democratic counterparts, and all three still lost."

The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday it had spent more than $550,000 in Wyoming during the election cycle to support the state party in its get-out-the-vote efforts. The Democrats only gained one seat in the Wyoming Legislature and weren't competitive in either of the two congressional races.

Read the full story HERE.

The 17-year-old girl who was stabbed Halloween night in the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center parking lot said she initially thought the machete-like knife another teen girl was threatening her with was fake.

Willow Wagner told Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck that she's grateful for those in the parking lot around her who acted quickly to help save her life.

"Other people were saying, you know, stop, and the suspect put the machete in her but she grabbed it at the same time, and she said her hand got stuck on it, but that act might have saved her life, because she told me it was like 12 inch long knife, and so she stopped the knife from going further… there was a 15 year old girl from Glenrock that immediately went to help her… she told me that she knows all the people that have been involved in teen violence, the victims this year. She knows all of them. And she told me that it just has to stop."

Wagner said the knife cut through two tendons in her hand as well as entering her abdomen. Sh