Former vice president and staunch Republican Dick Cheney will vote for Harris over Trump, his daughter says

Dick Cheney, a well-known Republican who served as vice president to George W. Bush, will be voting for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November, his daughter said.

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” former Representative Liz Cheney told a crowd Friday at the Texas Tribute Festival.

The audience erupted into applause at the unexpected announcement.

Dick Cheney, a notorious figure of the Republican Party, now adds his name to the growing list of conservative figures who are abandoning the Republican Party’s nominee Donald Trump.

Liz Cheney, a conservative critic of Trump, said that her father is concerned about the future of democracy under the former president.

“If you think about the moment that we’re in and you think about how serious this moment is, you know my dad believes and he’s said publicly that there’s never been an individual in our country who is as great of a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is,” Liz Cheney said.

“And that’s the moment that we’re facing."

The Independent has asked the Harris campaign and Trump campaign for comment on Dick Cheney’s decision.

Liz Cheney announced on Thursday she would vote for Harris in the upcoming presidential election because Trump poses a “danger.”

She encouraged her fellow conservatives who may be unsure about voting for Trump again to vote for Harris. Liz Cheney emphasized that they don’t have the “luxury” of not voting or writing in someone else’s name.

Before being voted out of her congressional seat, Liz Cheney was an adamant critic of Trump – especially in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Her father appeared in a campaign advertisement for her in 2022 where he also lambasted Trump for being a “coward” and the greatest “threat