Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said she would support Kamala Harris for president, ending weeks of speculation about how fully the member of a GOP dynasty-turned-Trump critic would embrace the Democratic ticket.
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- Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney announced on Wednesday that she will vote for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, citing the “danger” Donald Trump poses to the country.
- Cheney, a staunch Trump critic who co-chaired the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, made her announcement during an event at Duke University.
- Cheney joins other Republicans, including former Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Denver Riggleman, in backing Harris, as well as more than 200 alumni of the Bush administration and past Republican presidential campaigns.
- She emphasized that the stakes are too high to consider third-party candidates, stating, “I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states.”
The Associated Press has the story:
Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney says she’ll vote for Democrat Kamala Harris for president
Newslooks- WASHINGTON (AP) —
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said she would support Kamala Harris for president, ending weeks of speculation about how fully the member of a GOP dynasty-turned-Trump critic would embrace the Democratic ticket.
Cheney, who co-chaired the House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, became a fierce Trump critic and was ousted in her 2022 Republican primary in Wyoming as a result, made her announcement at an event at Duke University. In a video posted on the social media network X, she finished by talking about the “danger” she believed Trump still poses to the country.
“I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” she said. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”
The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney has been perhaps Trump’s highest-profile Republican critic. She joins other Republicans like her former Jan. 6 committee member, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger and former Rep. Denver Riggleman, as backers of Harris. More than 200 alumni of the Bush administration and former Republican presidential campaigns of the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney also announced their endorsement of Harris last week.
Cheney was in House Republican leadership at the time of the Jan. 6 attack but broke with most of her caucus over Trump’s responsibility. She lost her leadership post and was one of the few Republicans willing to serve on the Jan. 6 committee, which was appointed by Democrats who controlled the House at the time.
