CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will vote for Kamala Harris for president, his daughter Liz Cheney mentioned Friday.
Liz Cheney, who herself endorsed Harris on Wednesday, made the announcement when requested by Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic journal throughout an onstage interview at The Texas Tribune Pageant in Austin.
“Dick Cheney will likely be voting for Kamala Harris,” Liz Cheney mentioned to viewers cheers.
“Wow,” Leibovich replied.
Like his daughter, Dick Cheney has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, notably throughout Liz Cheney’s ill-fated re-election marketing campaign in 2022.
In a marketing campaign advert for Liz Cheney as she sought a fourth time period as Wyoming’s lone congressperson, Dick Cheney referred to as Trump a “coward” for making an attempt to “steal the final election utilizing lies and violence to maintain himself in energy after the voters had rejected him.”
The advert did little good for his daughter in a deep-red state that after held the Cheney household pricey however is now completely in Trump’s nook. By a 2-to-1 margin, Liz Cheney misplaced her Republican major to Trump-endorsed legal professional Harriet Hageman.
Notably absent from Friday’s endorsement announcement was the previous vice chairman.
Dick Cheney, 83, has made few if any public appearances over the previous 12 months or extra. He has handled coronary heart points since his 40s and underwent a coronary heart transplant in 2012.
Cheney put out a press release confirming his endorsement of Harris, a part of it just like the 2022 advert for his daughter.
“He can by no means be trusted with energy once more,” the assertion mentioned. “As residents, we every have an obligation to place nation above partisanship to defend our Structure. That’s the reason I will likely be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Requested for remark, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung mentioned, “Who’s Liz Cheney?”
The marketing campaign confirmed Cheung was being sarcastic by additionally pointing to a remark Liz Cheney posted on-line 4 years in the past through which she referred to as Harris a “radical liberal.”
Dick Cheney has been pals with Democrats through the years however by no means supported one for president.
Each Cheneys backed Trump in 2016 however after Liz Cheney criticized Trump international coverage choices and Trump criticized the “infinite wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq launched when Dick Cheney was vice chairman, their help waned.
If both Cheney supported Trump in 2020, they had been mum about it. In the meantime, their dwelling state of Wyoming that 12 months delivered Trump his widest margin of victory.
By 2021, Liz Cheney’s vote to question Trump and her investigation into him for the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot made them irredeemable to Trump — and shortly many of the GOP.
There have been exceptions. One was Cheney ally Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a Republican Trump critic who earlier this 12 months endorsed Biden and spoke in help of Harris on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August.
A number of different Republicans have come out in help of Harris whereas some, together with Sen. Mitt Romney and former Vice President Mike Pence, say they gained’t be voting for Trump.
Of them solely Romney, who’s not looking for re-election, remains to be in workplace.
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