Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave his endorsement to Kamala Harris on Friday in an official statement, hours after his daughter Liz said her father would do so.
“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in the statement.
“He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He 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 concluded.
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said the current Vice President was pleased to receive Cheney’s support and “deeply respects his courage to put country over party.”
Earlier in the day, Liz Cheney said her father would be endorsing Kamala Harris, at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas. The former Wyoming Rep. had already announced that she herself would be voting for Harris.
In a diatribe at the festival, Liz Cheney called Trump a “depraved human being” and said that he and his running-mate, JD Vance, are “misogynistic pigs.”
“Every Republican, anybody who’s contemplating casting a vote for that ticket, you know, really needs to think about what they are enabling, what they’re embracing and the danger of electing people who will only honor election results if they agree with the outcome, and who are willing to set aside the Constitution,” she said.
“And you know in the case of Donald Trump, promote, provoke, exploit violence in order to seize power.”
Trump took to Truth Social and issued a blistering response.
“Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, along with his daughter, who lost by the largest margin in the History of Congressional Races! They couldn’t get Scooter Libby, who did so much for them (but was so unfairly treated!), PARDONED. I did it! He’s the King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, wasting Lives and Trillions of Dollars, just like Comrade Kamala Harris. I am the Peace President, and only I will stop World War III! What Liz Cheney did with the Unselect Committee of Political Losers is unthinkable. She and her Unselects deleted and destroyed all evidence and information – IT’S GONE. Much of it proved that Nancy Pelosi was responsible for J6 – DIDN’T PROVIDE SECURITY. Cheney and the others should be prosecuted for what they did, but Comrade Kamala is even worse!”