UPDATED, with Cheney statement & Kamala Harris statement: Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris in the November election, his daughter Liz Cheney said today. The announcement by the former Wyoming Congresswoman was soon followed by confirmation by the ex-VP himself, and then follow up with words of thanks by the current vice president.
“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Liz Cheney said at the Texas Tribune Festival, where she was participating in a Q&A with The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich.
Her father later released a statement, saying that “there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. 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.”
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The elder Cheney added, “As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
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Later on Friday, the Harris campaign had a statement of its own that would have seem impossible just a few months ago in what has proven to be an almost impossible-to-believe election so far.
“The Vice President is proud to have the support of Vice President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, one of the top aides of the 49th VP said of the 46th VP.
“He joins hundreds of Republicans who are backing the Vice President and her patriotic vision of America over former President Trump, because, as Vice President Cheney said, the very future of our republic is at stake in this election,” Harris-Walz Campaign Chair Dillon added, noting the words of the GOP DC insider fighter once proudly called Darth Vader. “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. Vice President Harris will be a president for all Americans – whether Republican, Democrat, independent, or none of the above – and she will keep working to earn the support of every American
Liz Cheney announced earlier this week that she would be voting for Harris, warning of the perils of returning Donald Trump to the White House.
As Liz Cheney was running for reelection in Wyoming in 2022, her father taped a commercial in which he also warned of Trump. Liz Cheney lost the primary to a challenger backed by Trump and Republican leaders, including Kevin McCarthy. She had been stripped of her GOP leadership role in the House because of her opposition to the former president.
In her remarks earlier this week, Liz Cheney said that it was not only important to oppose Trump, but to support Harris rather than write in a name, as some traditional anti-Trump conservatives have done in previous cycles.
Cheney and her father have had sharp policy differences with the Biden administration, and both have been long supporters of pro-life causes. But she has said that those have to be set aside this election because of the threat that Trump poses to democracy.
The idea that Dick Cheney would back the Democratic presidential nominee would be been unthinkable two decades ago, when he was vice president. Back then, he was reviled by Democrats for his role in orchestrating the George W. Bush administration’s war on terror policies and invasion of Iraq.
Cheney served as vice president from 2001 to 2009. Bush has not weighed in on the 2024 election, but told People magazine that in the 2020 election, he wrote in the name of Condoleeza Rice, his former secretary of state. Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, has said that he won’t be voting for him, but indicated that he would not vote for Harris either.
At the event, Liz Cheney said that she also was endorsing Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) in his bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is seeking a third term.
How terrible of a person do you have to be to make THIS man vote Democrat. My mind has been absolutely blown.
The man who lied us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of American soldiers needlessly is endorsing Harris. All I need to know.
Well Dick saying Trump is the biggest danger is a bit like saying Cancer or burning to death … Decisions Decisions… Ugh
So now you are celebrating the execrable Cheney, a true master of disaster who lied this country into disastrous wars.
That really says it all about your politics.
It means that there are members of the Republican party who understand what a threat Donald Trump is to our democracy, governance, and the rule of law. And they are speaking out.
His and his daughter’s endorsements come with the caveat that, as the junior Chaney said in her statement, does not come with the luxury of Republicans writing in a candidate to keep Trump out. They must support Harris.
You don’t have to like either of the two Cheneys to understand that they have given their careers to their party, their country and their and legacy and are putting the country over all three. Particularly Liz, who literally paid the price career-wise for standing up ta expose the truly corrupt criminal, Donald Trump.
The man LOST the 2020 election and during a health and economic crisis that unfolded on his watch, he put his ambitions and greed ahead of the peaceful transition of power. So, he spread debunked conspiracies, plotted a scheme to install fake electors, and led an attack on our nation’s capitol by his supporters. FFS, sat watching it all unfold for THREE HOURS doing nothing but send out a tweet that endangered the life of his own VP. He did nothing as over 150 police officers were attacked and injured.
I have no love for Dick Cheney on any level, nor do I agree much with his daughter policy-wise, but I respect both of them standing up for their country and our democracy. Donald Trump has to be shut out of public office now and forever.
If it means denying a twice-impeached convicted felon another term so he can implement the Republican Project 2025 plan to destroy Americna democracy and replace it with a fascist authoritarian dictatorship, then I am definitely celebrating Cheney’s endorsement.
Wow…..you’d rather Satan?! The man who set the world on fire? There is a reason the world has been unsafe for the past 25yrs and it’s name is Cheney.
And that guy is saying don’t vote for Trump because he is bad for our country, lol. So how much worse can it get if trump gets elected when he thinks what he did in office was ok?
It makes you wonder.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed that her father, former vice president and far-right Republican Dick Cheney, would be voting for Democrat Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. One pollster thinks that’s significant enough to swing the election. Speaking on a panel with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher compared it to the endorsement Gen. Colin Powell made for then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). He said it allows Republicans who are feeling a little apprehensive the permission to vote for a Democrat. “I think this is a needle-moving moment for Vice President Harris because, look, as you know, a lot of Republicans have been sitting out on the fence,” Belcher said. “What bigger permission structure for conservatives to lean in and vote for the pro-democratic movement than Liz and Dick Cheney offering up the sort of permission structure and approving points for it? I think it’s huge.”