Vice President Kamala Harris just nabbed a major Republican endorsement in her mad dash for the White House: former Vice President Dick Cheney will be voting for her, according to his daughter.
Speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Friday, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) announced her arch-conservative father’s support for the Democratic nominee.
“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said to massive applause from the crowd.
The former congresswoman ― who lost her bid for reelection in 2022 after emerging as a major Trump critic, supporting his second impeachment and sitting on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack ― revealed her father’s decision a day after she, too, endorsed Harris.
“It is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names — particularly in swing states,” Liz Cheney said at an event at Duke University.
In an ad for his daughter’s 2022 reelection bid, the elder Cheney slammed Trump as a “coward.”
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election, using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”
Former President George W. Bush, whom Cheney served with in the White House from 2000 to 2008, has occasionally spoken critically of Trump since his political ascent, but he has yet to ever endorse any of Trump’s Democratic opponents.
His father, the late former President George H.W. Bush, endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
Numerous Republicans also spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention last month, including some former members of Trump’s administration.
