Liz Cheney Says She Will Vote for Harris in Presidential Election

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is the latest high-profile Republican to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The former congresswoman, a vocal critic of former president Donald Trump, announced her decision during an event at Duke University.

“Because we are here in North Carolina, I think it is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I’ve just 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,” Cheney said in a video posted to social media on Wednesday.

She continued that “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 am I not voting for Donald Trump but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”

Cheney, who was a member of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has previously warned that another Trump presidency could be the death knell for democracy.

“He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people around him — at the Department of Justice, at the White House counsel’s office — all of those things he will do. There will be no guardrails,” said the former congresswoman during CNN’s State of the Union in 2023.

On Tuesday, the late Sen. John McCain’s youngest son, Army 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, announced that he had changed his voter registration to Democrat and would be voting for Harris. His endorsement of the vice president arrived after Trump received widespread backlash following reports that one of his campaign aides pushed a staffer at Arlington National Cemetery during a visit to the burial ground last week.

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