Dick Cheney Is Voting For Kamala Harris | EUROtoday

Vice President Kamala Harris simply nabbed a significant Republican endorsement in her mad sprint for the White House: former Vice President Dick Cheney can be voting for her.

The former vice chairman launched an announcement Friday, a pair hours after his daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) disclosed her father’s plans.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” reads the assertion. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” he wrote. “That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Trump responded to Cheney’s endorsement Friday night.

Harris marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon applauded Cheney for his announcement.

“The Vice President is proud to have the support of Vice President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,” she mentioned.

“For every voter who cares about America and understands the fundamental threat Donald Trump poses to our democracy and our Constitution, this campaign has a home for you,” she continued.

Earlier Friday, Liz Cheney broke the information of her arch-conservative father’s assist for the Democratic nominee whereas talking on the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Friday.

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she mentioned to huge applause from the gang.

The former congresswoman ― who misplaced her bid for reelection in 2022 after rising as a significant Trump critic, supporting his second impeachment and sitting on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol assault ― revealed her father’s resolution a day after she, too, endorsed Harris.

“It is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names — particularly in swing states,” Liz Cheney mentioned at an occasion at Duke University.

In an advert for his daughter’s 2022 reelection bid, the elder Cheney slammed Trump as a “coward.”

Former President George W. Bush, whom Cheney served with within the White House from 2000 to 2008, has often spoken critically of Trump since his political ascent, however he has but to ever endorse any of Trump’s Democratic opponents.

His father, the late former President George H.W. Bush, endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.

Numerous Republicans additionally spoke in assist of Harris on the Democratic National Convention final month, together with some former members of Trump’s administration.