Liz Cheney Endorses Kamala Harris

September 4, 2024 10:05 PM EDT

Former Representative Liz Cheney, whose real upward thrust in the Republican Occasion ended when she antagonistic Donald Trump, stated Wednesday that she’d vote for his Democratic opponent in the November election.

“As a conservative and somebody who believes in and cares deeply about the Structure, I salvage thought deeply about this. And attributable to the hazard that Donald Trump poses—no longer fully am I no longer vote casting for Donald Trump, but I shall be vote casting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney stated Wednesday at a Sanford College of Public Policy occasion at Duke University in North Carolina.

Cheney, a daughter of frail Vice President Dick Cheney, served as vice chair—and used to be one of fully two Republicans—on the Rental committee that investigated the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s efforts to exchange the result of the 2020 presidential election.

Jeremy Adler, a Cheney spokesman, confirmed her assertion.

Elected to a Rental seat in Wyoming in 2016, she used to be defeated by a major challenger backed by Trump in 2022. Bigger than a year earlier, in Would possibly possibly well additionally 2021, she had been ousted by fellow Republicans from the third-ranking Rental GOP management post of convention chair. 

Resentment towards her arose after she grew to vary into one of 10 Rental Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over allegations that he incited the assault on the U.S. Capitol.

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