Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican, announces support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race.
Trump campaign highlights old clip of Cheney criticizing Harris.
Liz Cheney, a former Republican Party rising star and a top critic of former President Trump, announces she will vote for Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Cheney stated on Wednesday at a Duke University event in North Carolina that she does not believe it is feasible to write candidates' names in swing states.
She stated that, as a conservative who values the Constitution, she has given careful consideration to her decision not to vote for Donald Trump and instead support Kamala Harris due to the threat he poses.
The Trump campaign posted a four-year-old interview of Cheney on Planet Chronicle attacking Harris minutes after the Cheney news broke.
"At the time, Cheney stated that her voting record in the Senate was to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, indicating her status as a radical liberal."
After Biden named Harris as his running mate, the Planet Chronicle interview occurred.
Dick Cheney's daughter, Cheney, was once a prominent conservative figure in the GOP, gaining recognition as she ascended through the ranks of House Republican leadership.
The most prominent among the 10 House Republicans who impeached former president Trump in early 2021 was accused of inciting the January 6th attack on the Capitol, which was carried out by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters who sought to disrupt the certification of Biden's Electoral College victory in the 2020 election.
The conservative lawmaker and defense hawk was attacked by Trump and his allies and eventually removed from her House GOP leadership position.
Cheney, a Republican who has emphasized the importance of defending the nation's democratic process and putting country before party, was one of only two Republicans on a special select committee organized by House Democrats to investigate the Capitol riot.
In 2022, she lost the GOP congressional primary in Wyoming to a candidate supported by Trump.
Cheney, who has characterized Trump as a "liar," a "con man," and a potential "tyrant," pledged after leaving Congress to do everything in his power to prevent Trump from ever being near the Oval Office again.
Although the Biden campaign, later the Harris campaign, reached out to her in July, Cheney had not spoken until now.
Cheney opted not to align with other notable anti-Trump Republicans, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who gave speeches at the Democratic National Convention in support of Harris last month.
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