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Liz Cheney has endorsed Kamala Harris’ White House bid, making her one of the most prominent Republicans to back the Democratic vice president as she seeks to defeat Donald Trump in November.
Only two months to go Election DayCheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who until last year was a Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, told an audience at Duke University on Wednesday night that she plans to vote for Harris.
Cheney said it was “extremely important” that voters recognize the “danger” of re-election. Mr. Trump.
“As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only will I not vote for Donald Trump, I will vote for Kamala Harris“, she added.
Cheney, a staunch conservative and foreign policy hawk who was once considered one of the leading neoconservative Republicans, served in Congress from 2017 to 2023. She quickly rose through the ranks to become chair of the House Republican Conference, making her the third-highest-ranking member of the party in the lower chamber of Congress.
But she is known for dissenting with her party over its response to Trump’s efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election and the actions on January 6, 2021, when a mob of the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Cheney supported Trump’s second impeachment and was subsequently removed from his position as the Republican leader of the House of Representatives.
She eventually became the top Republican on the Democratic-led House investigation into the January 6 attack and lost the 2022 Republican primary to a Trump-backed opponent.
Cheney has been one of Trump’s most prominent Republican critics for years. But she held off on endorsing Harris, even as several other prominent anti-Trump Republicans spoke at the Democratic National Convention last month in Chicago. Those speakers included Adam Kinzinger, a former Illinois congressman who was the only other Republican on the committee on January 6, and Geoff Duncan, a former Georgia lieutenant governor.
