He Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheneywho was the number 2 of the old George W. Bush and has served in other Republican administrations, will vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the November 5 election, he announced in a statement on Friday, confirming statements his daughter had made hours earlier, Liz CheneyFormer Congressman from Wyoming, Texas. Dick Cheney, who voted for former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016, the current Republican nominee, made the change known after his daughter Liz Cheney’s feud with Trump. The former vice president’s daughter was expelled from the Republican congressional caucus for her criticism of Trump and lost her party’s primary to a candidate endorsed by the former president.
“Over the course of our nation’s 248-year history“There has never been an individual who has posed a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” the Republican said. Dick Cheney in his statementone of the last politicians of establishment conservative, who was not invited to this year’s Republican National Convention in Wisconsin.He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to stay in power after voters rejected him. “He can no longer be trusted with power,” Dick Cheney said in a strongly worded note.
Dick Cheney was vice president of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 supported Trump during his first presidential bid in 2016. But he became very critical of Trump after the confrontation he had with his daughter Liz Cheney.
He Cheney’s endorsement comes after a notable absence of members of the establishment like a bushDick Cheney himself and former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 at this year’s Republican National Convention, after Trump switched parties to a conservative party, bolstered by a voter base weary of Washington’s excesses.
Dick Cheney personified the Republican Party for decades, serving as a congressman from Wyoming, White House chief of staff to President Gerald Ford, and defense secretary to Republican President George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush’s father.
Cheney played a key role in convince Bush to go to war against Iraq after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and WashingtonHis position on how Washington should confront the war on terror shaped and changed U.S. foreign and defense policy after the aforementioned attacks, at a time when the fight against terrorism was becoming the White House’s primary concern.
Dick Cheney played a key role, alongside then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in establishing the Guantanamo detention camps for terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, which was widely criticized by Barack Obama and the Left Politicians of the European Union. Instead, the Democratic president has failed to deliver on his promises to close the detention camps, due to the American public’s refusal to transfer the terrorists to American soil and the refusal of the rest of the leaders of the international community to accept the terrorists into their prisons, although he harshly criticized Bush for locking them up in the Caribbean base.
