Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday urged girls to “vote your conscience” for Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election given the strict abortion bans in some states — and even whether it is towards how the boys of their lives suppose they need to vote.
Referencing the Republicans like herself who’ve publicly backed Harris, Cheney stated on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that “there are additionally many Republicans and independents who’re saying ‘look, you realize, I do not wish to convey the wrath of … Donald Trump and JD Vance down on me, so I will vote my conscience, I am not going to speak about it.'”
“We, you realize, clearly, encourage that you simply vote as a secret vote,” Cheney continued. “You need to do what you suppose is true. And I feel you are going to have, frankly, loads of women and men who will go into the voting sales space and can vote their conscience and can vote for Vice President Harris. They could not ever say something publicly however the outcomes will communicate for themselves.”
The feedback echo what Michelle Obama stated throughout a Harris rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday evening. The previous first woman advised the gang that “if you’re a girl who lives in a family of males that do not hearken to you or worth your opinion, simply keep in mind that your vote is a personal matter. Whatever the political beliefs of your accomplice, you get to decide on.”
Cheney’s feedback come as a CBS Information ballot launched Sunday dug into the gender hole amongst voters. In keeping with the polls, Harris has a 10-point lead over former President Donald Trump, and 4 in 10 girls suppose Trump’s marketing campaign is paying an excessive amount of consideration to males.
Cheney, a Harris marketing campaign surrogate, stated the marketing campaign has seen an “unprecedented coalition” of ladies who assist abortion rights and people who oppose them coming collectively to assist Harris.
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“That is as a result of we have seen a number of the simply the draconian legal guidelines which were handed in locations like Texas and North Carolina which are stopping girls from getting lifesaving well being care, stopping girls from getting medical care that you realize will be certain that, if they’ve a miscarriage, that they’ll have infants once more, simply basically a set of circumstances that may’t be maintained,” Cheney continued.
Cheney stated she did not suppose these teams coming collectively is about “placing convictions apart” however moderately “it is about wanting on the actuality on the bottom of what is occurred since Roe was overturned.”
“The concept that that, you realize, you’ve got bought these sorts of insurance policies and state legal guidelines being put in place is basically mobilizing girls to say, look, you realize, you do not have to desert being pro-life, however this sort of circumstance, this sort of actually abhorrent state of affairs the place girls cannot get medical care they want, that simply cannot go on,” Cheney stated.
In September, Cheney referred to as Trump and his operating mate Sen. JD Vance “misogynistic pigs.” In a separate interview on Sunday, Brennan requested Vance about that remark.
As an alternative of straight answering, Vance as a substitute referred to as Cheney “the particular person whose father is accountable for the deaths of tens of millions of harmless Arabs and tens of hundreds of harmless American troops, and saying, successfully, that should you elect me, I will have the overseas coverage of Dick and Liz Cheney.”
In response to these feedback, Cheney stated that Vance is “doing every part they’ll to attempt to distract from the truth that the individuals who know Donald Trump greatest, together with retired four-star Marine Gen. John Kelly, who’s a gold star father, have come out and stated very clearly and really on to the American people who Donald Trump isn’t match, that Donald Trump himself, standing close to the graves of our fallen service members, says issues like they’re suckers and losers.”
Cheney added that she is “assured” the American folks can “see by” that argument.
Cheney was the third-highest rating Republican within the Home earlier than being ousted over her vote to question Trump over his position within the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Harris can be at a rally on Tuesday on the Ellipse — the identical place the place Trump advised his supporters to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“That is the primary presidential election post-January 6, and so you realize, you’ve got bought, the truth is, lots of the similar individuals who have been promising a crimson wave in 2022 doing the identical factor now, we’re not going to see it now,” Cheney stated. “We did not see it then. And what Vice President Harris has finished, I’ve watched her do it. I’ve sat subsequent to her on the stage as she does it. She talks about a complete vary of points. She talks about grocery costs, she talks about girls’s well being care, she talks about, you realize, Donald Trump’s tariff insurance policies, that are massively inflationary, and on the similar time, reminds everyone, it’s important to have a president who obeys the rule of legislation.”
