Liz Cheney, the most famous member of the anti-Trump Republicans, declared on Wednesday, September 4, that she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the US presidential election on November 5. During her speech at an event at Duke University in North Carolina, she spoke about the ” danger “ that Donald Trump still represents for the country, according to her. The “Grand Old Party” (GOP) remains united behind its candidate.
Liz Cheney, a former House of Representatives representative from Wyoming, a very conservative state, from 2017 to 2023, became, during her term, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, after supporting him in the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton, whom she later described as “criminal”She served as vice chair of the House committee that investigated the pro-Trump assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and voted to impeach the former president in February 2021. Following this disavowal, Liz Cheney was expelled from the 2022 Republican primary in Wyoming, preventing her re-election to the House of Representatives.
“I don’t think we can afford to put candidates’ names on the ballot, particularly in key states.”said Liz Cheney on Wednesday. She was referring to the practice of allowing voters to handwrite on their ballot the name of a person other than the officially registered candidates. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. Because of the danger Donald Trump represents, I will not only not vote for him, but I will not vote for him.” [lui]but I will vote for Kamala Harris. »
Trump critic and former fierce critic of the Democratic field
Daughter of Dick Cheney, US vice president from 2001 to 2009 during the George W. Bush administration, Liz Cheney, 58, joins other Republicans who have announced their support for Kamala Harris, such as former representatives Adam Kinzinger and Denver Riggleman.
More than 200 Bush administration veterans and former staffers of the Republican presidential campaigns of Senators John McCain – the candidate in 2008 – and Mitt Romney – in 2012 – also announced their support for Kamala Harris in an open letter last week. James McCain, John McCain’s son, also declared that he had joined the Democratic Party and would vote for the Democratic candidate, a valuable endorsement for the latter in the key state of Arizona.
Liz Cheney, a lawyer and former Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East, was head of the House Republican Party at the time of the attack on January 6, 2021, making her the “number three” in the Republican Party. She subsequently broke with most of her colleagues because, according to her, Donald Trump’s responsibility for the attack. She then lost her leadership position and was one of the few Republicans who wanted to serve on the January 6 committee, appointed by the Democrats who then controlled the House. In 2022, her father promised: if Donald Trump tries again, “Come to the Oval Office”she will intervene. “And he will succeed”said Dick Cheney.
Prior to this and her current endorsement of Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney, in 2019, had described the Democratic field as “party of anti-Semitism, infanticide and socialism”. she had so Summary of your program: “Neither God nor 2my amendment [de la Constitution, qui garantit à chaque citoyen le droit de détenir une arme], No protection for babies, no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no planes, no cars, no cows…”
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