Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris, says Liz Cheney

Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, his daughter Liz Cheney said Friday.

“My father believes, and has said publicly, that there has never been a person in our country who poses as great a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump,” Liz Cheney said at the Texas Tribune Festival.

Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming, broke with Trump over the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

When Cheney ran for re-election the following year, Trump managed to defeat her in the state's Republican primary.

When asked for comment by NBC News, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung insulted Liz Cheney without addressing her comments.

Dick Cheney, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, had already expressed his opposition to Trump in a 2022 commercial for his daughter's re-election campaign.

“He's a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters,” Cheney said in the ad. “He lost the election, and he lost it by a landslide. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”

Liz Cheney became the latest Republican to endorse Harris on Wednesday when she made a surprise announcement of her support for the Democratic vice president at an event at Duke University.

On Friday, she also endorsed Democratic Rep. Colin Allred in the race for the Texas Senate seat against incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

“Here in Texas, you have an outstanding, serious candidate for the U.S. Senate,” Cheney said, referring to Allred, with whom she sat in the House of Representatives.

“You may not agree with every policy position, but we need people who will serve in good faith. We need people who are honorable public servants. And in this race, that's Colin Allred,” she added.