Vice President Kamala Harris has said she is “honored” to have received an endorsement from former Vice President Dick Cheney, who announced his decision to vote for the Democratic candidate earlier this week.
Cheney — a chief architect of the Iraq war and avid supporter of U.S.-led foreign military interventions — has long been a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump. He previously released a video statement in which a visibly angry Cheney claimed Trump presents the greatest threat the United States has had to deal with.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic, than Donald Trump,” Cheney stated without blinking. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence, to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He’s a coward, a real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters,” the former vice president continued over patriotic music.
“He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”
His daughter, Liz Cheney, has followed her father’s lead in endorsing Harris. Cheney spent her final years in Congress trashing Trump and attacking his supporters as violent extremists, leading to a humiliating primary loss in her Wyoming congressional district in what was a historic rejection by Republican voters.
Before changing her tune, Liz Cheney had referred to Kamala Harris as a “radical” leftist who is dangerous for the country.
Dick Cheney — who was once depicted as Satan incarnate by Democrats throughout the 2000’s — is now treated as a wise statesman by the same political factions. According to a poll from The Atlantic, Cheney left office with an astonishingly low approval rating of just 13 percent.
After Cheney released his statement, Vice President Harris said she was “honored” to receive his endorsement.
“Actually I was honored to have their endorsements, and I think that they both, as leaders who are well respected, are making an important statement, that it’s okay, and it’s important to put country above party,” Harris said in response to the Cheney Family’s decision.
The vice president has stated that she is open to the idea of appointing “a Republican” to a cabinet role if she wins in November. Liz Cheney is widely believed to be a leading “Republican” candidate for such a role.