Washington – Former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who has been a staunch critic of former President Donald Trump, said she would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
“I don’t believe we have the luxury of write-in candidates, especially in swing states,” Cheney, who represented Wyoming, said Wednesday at Duke University. “As a conservative, someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. And because of the threat of Donald Trump, not only am I voting for Donald Trump, but I’m voting for Kamala Harris.”
Cheney, who served Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riotssaid in January that Trump should be disqualified from the ballot for his actions related to the January 6, 2021, attacks.
At that time, the Colorado Supreme Court, In a split judgmentstated that Trump was disqualified from serving as president due to his actions related to the Capitol riots and therefore could not appear on the state’s primary ballot. The US Supreme Court said in a March ruling cannot remove The former president from the ballot for his role in the riots.
“We’ve got to be ready to make sure we can beat him at the ballot box, which ultimately I believe we will,” Cheney said. told “Face the Nation” in January.
Cheney is the latest in a long line of Republicans who recently announced their support for Harris.
More than 200 Republicans, including former President George HW Bush, former President George W. Bush, worked for Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney. support Harris said in a letter that democracy would be “usefully endangered” by another Trump administration. They urged moderate Republicans and independents in battleground states who helped elect President Biden to “once again take a brave stand.”
His announcement followed speeches by several Republicans at the Democratic National Convention last month in which they excoriated Trump’s leadership and personality. Olivia Troy, who served as an advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence. Stephanie Grisham — one of Trump’s press secretaries and a top aide to Melania Trump — and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger was among the Republicans who spoke out against the GOP presidential nominee.
Caitlin Yilek is a political reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, DC, she previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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