Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney mentioned her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, may even be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. Liz Cheney made the announcement Friday after saying two days in the past that she’s backing the Democrat.
“Dick Cheney might be voting for Kamala Harris,” the youthful Cheney mentioned of her father throughout the Texas Tribune Pageant, prompting cheers from the viewers.
Dick Cheney was vice chairman below former President George W. Bush and was one of the crucial influential officers behind Bush’s invasion of Iraq and the CIA’s interrogation ways after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults.
Liz Cheney was certainly one of solely two Republicans to serve on the Home Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol assault and former President Donald Trump’s position in it, and Trump has repeatedly blasted Cheney for it, suggesting she and the others on the committee must be jailed.
“I do not consider that we’ve the luxurious of writing in candidates’ names, significantly in swing states,” Liz Cheney mentioned Wednesday at Duke College. “As a conservative, as somebody who believes in and cares in regards to the Structure, I’ve thought deeply about this. And due to the hazard that Donald Trump poses, not solely am I not voting for Donald Trump, however I might be voting for Kamala Harris.”
Harris’ marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon mentioned in a press release that Harris was “proud to have earned Congresswoman Cheney’s vote.”
The Cheneys aren’t the one Republicans to again Harris. A number of Republicans spoke on the Democratic Nationwide Conference urging their fellow Republicans to again Harris for the sake of democracy, together with former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan.
Caitlin Yilek
contributed to this report.
