Vice President Kamala Harris simply nabbed a significant Republican endorsement in her mad sprint for the White Home: former Vice President Dick Cheney shall be voting for her.
The previous vp launched an announcement Friday, a pair hours after his daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) disclosed her father’s plans.
“In our nation’s 248-year historical past, there has by no means been a person who’s a better risk to our republic than Donald Trump,” reads the assertion. “He tried to steal the final election utilizing lies and violence to maintain himself in energy after the voters had rejected him. He can by no means be trusted with energy once more.”
“As residents, we every have an obligation to place nation above partisanship to defend our Structure,” he wrote. “That’s the reason I shall be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Trump responded to Cheney’s endorsement Friday night.
“Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, alongside together with his daughter, who misplaced by the most important margin within the Historical past of Congressional Races!” the previous president posted on Reality Social. “He’s the King of Countless, Nonsensical Wars, losing Lives and Trillions of {Dollars}, similar to Comrade Kamala Harris. I’m the Peace President, and solely I’ll cease World Conflict III!”
Harris marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon applauded Cheney for his announcement.
“The Vice President is proud to have the assist of Vice President Cheney, and deeply respects his braveness to place nation over celebration,” she mentioned.
“For each voter who cares about America and understands the basic risk Donald Trump poses to our democracy and our Structure, this marketing campaign has a house for you,” she continued.
Earlier Friday, Liz Cheney broke the information of her arch-conservative father’s assist for the Democratic nominee whereas talking on the Texas Tribune Pageant in Austin on Friday.
“Dick Cheney shall be voting for Kamala Harris,” she mentioned to large applause from the gang.
The previous congresswoman ― who misplaced her bid for reelection in 2022 after rising as a significant Trump critic, supporting his second impeachment and sitting on the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol assault ― revealed her father’s resolution a day after she, too, endorsed Harris.
“It’s crucially essential for folks to acknowledge, not solely is what I mentioned concerning the hazard that Trump poses one thing that ought to stop folks from voting for him, however I don’t imagine that now we have the posh of writing in candidates’ names — notably in swing states,” Liz Cheney said at an occasion at Duke College.
In an advert for his daughter’s 2022 reelection bid, the elder Cheney slammed Trump as a “coward.”
Former President George W. Bush, whom Cheney served with within the White Home from 2000 to 2008, has sometimes spoken critically of Trump since his political ascent, however he has but 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.
Quite a few Republicans additionally spoke in assist of Harris on the Democratic Nationwide Conference final month, together with some former members of Trump’s administration.
