Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala Harris, says Liz Cheney

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Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney said Friday that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris rather than Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in November.

“Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris,” the former Wyoming congresswoman said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.

Liz Cheney's revelation comes just days after she announced she would vote for Harris, citing “the danger posed by Donald Trump.”

The former congresswoman has been a vocal critic of the former president and previously told CNN she was determined to do whatever it took to prevent Trump from returning to the White House. On Friday, she also suggested that her father shared her views.

“When you think about the situation we are in and how serious this situation is, you know that my father believes – and he has said this publicly – that there has never been a human being in our country who poses as great a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump,” she said in Austin.

Dick Cheney's endorsement of Harris is an astonishing move by the staunch conservative who served as vice president under George W. Bush and was a longtime congressman from Wyoming who held several leadership positions in the House Republican Caucus.

The former vice president was critical of his party and Trump after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. In campaign ads for his daughter's re-election in 2022, he called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward.”

“He tried to rig the last election with lies and violence to stay in power after voters rejected him,” Dick Cheney said in the ad about the former president.

His daughter's outspoken opposition to Trump and the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election – including her vote for his impeachment – led to her losing her leadership position as the third-strongest Republican in the House. The GOP removed her as conference chair in May 2021 and replaced her several months after the Jan. 6 attack with Elise Stefanik of New York, a key Trump defender.

Liz Cheney subsequently served as vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riots and ultimately lost her congressional seat to a Trump-backed Republican challenger in the primary election.