Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

Liz Cheney is ready to force a reckoning for those Republicans who have come around to support Donald Trump for what she says are purely political reasons.

Anti-Trump Republicans including Cheney have become increasingly vocal in the past few months as Kamala Harris has ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket; emboldened by the new vigor her party hasfound in her wake. Trump, now running for the presidency for a third time, is poised to either pull off a massive political comeback or suffer his second defeat in as many presidential election cycles — to say nothing of the defeats his hand-picked candidates suffered in 2022’s midterms.

His enemies on the right, despite his dominating victory in the Republican primary earlier this year, still smell blood in the water and are now looking to Harris to deal an electoral deathblow this November.

Other GOPers in this vein accepted speaking roles at the Democratic convention last month, including Cheney’s former compatriot on the January 6 committee, Adam Kinzinger, and former Trump White House communications director Stephanie Grisham.

But Cheney made the news of the month this weekend with a joint announcement from the former Wyoming congresswoman and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney: the two will both be supporting Kamala Harris’s campaign this fall.

The former VP’s statement was closely followed by another from former President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney’s old running mate, who stated that he would decline to endorse either candidate for the presidency this year.

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said onstage Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival. “If you think about the moment we’re in, and you think about how serious this moment is, my