Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will endorse Kamala Harris as his presidential candidate, his daughter Liz Cheney announced Friday.

Liz Cheney, a former senior Republican who endorsed Harris on Thursday, made the announcement during an interview with the Atlantic's Mark Leibovich at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

“Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris,” Liz Cheney told the audience to applause.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney introduces Vice President Mike Pence at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at the Venetian Las Vegas on February 24, 2017 in Las Vegas. On Friday, former Vice President…


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“Wow,” Leibovich replied.

“My father believes – and has said publicly – that no other person in our country poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump,” Liz Cheney added.

Dick Cheney served as Vice President under President George W. Bush for eight years, from 2001 to 2009. Once demonized by Democrats for his role in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, today the Wyoming native stands on the side of those he once opposed – all in the name of what the Cheney family sees as protecting democracy.

Cheney has criticized Trump before, most notably in 2016 when he called the then-Republican candidate a “liberal Democrat.” Four years later, during Trump's re-election campaign, Cheney took out an ad for his daughter's failed Wyoming campaign, calling Trump “a coward.”