Dick Cheney endorses Harris, stating Trump "can never be trusted with power again"
She will actively support the Democratic nominee in crucial battleground states.
TroibNews 
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney has made it clear that her campaign against former President Donald Trump will extend beyond merely endorsing Kamala Harris; she plans to actively campaign in battleground states this fall.
During an interview on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Cheney revealed that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, would also be voting for Harris. The audience responded with cheers upon hearing about her father’s vote.
Later, Dick Cheney, one of the two living former vice presidents who have refused to support Trump, released a statement that reaffirmed his daughter’s comments, asserting that Trump “can never be trusted with power again.”
“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he added in his statement.
In response, Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss Dick Cheney's endorsement of Harris. “Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO,” he wrote, using the term for “Republican in name only.”
The Harris campaign welcomed Dick Cheney and others from the GOP who wish to join what they described as hundreds of other Republicans who support her.
“The Vice President is proud to have the support of Vice President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,” noted Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.
During her remarks, Liz Cheney also stated that she would endorse Rep. Colin Allred in his Senate race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Defeating Donald Trump is frankly important, but there are numbers of candidates around the country who have embraced election denialism and I think it’s really important that we defeat them, too,” Cheney emphasized, once the No. 3 leader of the House Republican Conference. “One of the most important things we need to do as a country as we begin to rebuild our politics is we need to elect serious people.”
These comments follow a speech Cheney delivered at Duke University on Wednesday, where she declared her vote for Harris and warned about the “danger” she claims Trump represents. Cheney has previously contemplated a third-party candidacy and advised battleground state voters opposed to the former president that simply writing in another candidate another name on the ballot is inadequate, a sentiment she reiterated on Friday.
Cheney, a longstanding critic of Trump, has intensified her rhetoric against him as the 2024 election approaches. She was expelled from her congressional position after refusing to retract her criticisms of Trump in light of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, during which she served as vice chair of the select committee that investigated the riot.
“Those of us who believe in the defense of our democracy and the defense of our Constitution and the survival of our Republic have a duty in this election cycle to come together and to put those things above politics,” Cheney remarked on Friday. “I look forward to the days when we will again be having debates about tax policy and national security and everything else, because that will mean we have made it through what is right now a very grave threat to a functioning republic.”
While Cheney stated that she is not officially affiliated with the Harris campaign, she will be traveling to battleground states to emphasize the critical need to defeat Trump.
Additionally, she has a political action committee (PAC) that spent hundreds of thousands opposing Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Republican Secretary of State nominee Mark Finchem in the 2022 election. This PAC, named Our Great Task, has already offered thinly veiled criticism of Trump in a D-Day video.
Cheney was removed from her congressional seat after a primary defeat that Trump and his political network supported. Her opponent received backing and funding from Trump donors.
On a lighter note, Cheney shared on Friday that she did not speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, partly due to having traveled to London to attend a Taylor Swift concert.
James del Carmen contributed to this report for TROIB News
During an interview on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Cheney revealed that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, would also be voting for Harris. The audience responded with cheers upon hearing about her father’s vote.
Later, Dick Cheney, one of the two living former vice presidents who have refused to support Trump, released a statement that reaffirmed his daughter’s comments, asserting that Trump “can never be trusted with power again.”
“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he added in his statement.
In response, Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss Dick Cheney's endorsement of Harris. “Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO,” he wrote, using the term for “Republican in name only.”
The Harris campaign welcomed Dick Cheney and others from the GOP who wish to join what they described as hundreds of other Republicans who support her.
“The Vice President is proud to have the support of Vice President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,” noted Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.
During her remarks, Liz Cheney also stated that she would endorse Rep. Colin Allred in his Senate race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Defeating Donald Trump is frankly important, but there are numbers of candidates around the country who have embraced election denialism and I think it’s really important that we defeat them, too,” Cheney emphasized, once the No. 3 leader of the House Republican Conference. “One of the most important things we need to do as a country as we begin to rebuild our politics is we need to elect serious people.”
These comments follow a speech Cheney delivered at Duke University on Wednesday, where she declared her vote for Harris and warned about the “danger” she claims Trump represents. Cheney has previously contemplated a third-party candidacy and advised battleground state voters opposed to the former president that simply writing in another candidate another name on the ballot is inadequate, a sentiment she reiterated on Friday.
Cheney, a longstanding critic of Trump, has intensified her rhetoric against him as the 2024 election approaches. She was expelled from her congressional position after refusing to retract her criticisms of Trump in light of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, during which she served as vice chair of the select committee that investigated the riot.
“Those of us who believe in the defense of our democracy and the defense of our Constitution and the survival of our Republic have a duty in this election cycle to come together and to put those things above politics,” Cheney remarked on Friday. “I look forward to the days when we will again be having debates about tax policy and national security and everything else, because that will mean we have made it through what is right now a very grave threat to a functioning republic.”
While Cheney stated that she is not officially affiliated with the Harris campaign, she will be traveling to battleground states to emphasize the critical need to defeat Trump.
Additionally, she has a political action committee (PAC) that spent hundreds of thousands opposing Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Republican Secretary of State nominee Mark Finchem in the 2022 election. This PAC, named Our Great Task, has already offered thinly veiled criticism of Trump in a D-Day video.
Cheney was removed from her congressional seat after a primary defeat that Trump and his political network supported. Her opponent received backing and funding from Trump donors.
On a lighter note, Cheney shared on Friday that she did not speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, partly due to having traveled to London to attend a Taylor Swift concert.
James del Carmen contributed to this report for TROIB News
