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Cheney: "Have to beryllium prepared" to decision Trump astatine ballot container
Washington — Former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who has been a staunch professional of erstwhile President Donald Trump, said she volition ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
"I don't judge that we person the luxury of penning successful candidates' names, peculiarly successful plaything states," Cheney, who represented Wyoming, said Wednesday astatine Duke University. "As a conservative, arsenic idiosyncratic who believes successful and cares astir the Constitution, I person thought profoundly astir this. And due to the fact that of the information that Donald Trump poses, not lone americium I not voting for Donald Trump, but I volition beryllium voting for Kamala Harris." Her remarks drew large and prolonged applause. Many successful the assemblage stood arsenic they clapped. Duke University provided the video.
Cheney, who served connected the congressional committee that investigated the Capitol riot, said successful January that Trump should beryllium disqualified from the ballot for his actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
At the time, the Colorado Supreme Court, in a divided ruling, had said Trump was disqualified from serving arsenic president due to the fact that of his actions related to the Capitol riot and frankincense could not look connected the state's superior ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled successful March that states cannot remove the erstwhile president from the ballot for his relation successful the riot.
"We person to beryllium prepared to guarantee that we tin decision him astatine the ballot box, which yet I judge we'll beryllium capable to do," Cheney told "Face the Nation" successful January.
Harris-Walz 2024 run seat Jen O'Malley Dillon said successful a connection that Harris was "proud to person earned Congresswoman Cheney's vote."
"For immoderate American who is looking to cull the chaos and part of Donald Trump, crook the page, and prosecute a caller mode guardant that protects our freedoms and defends the American values we each judge in, determination is simply a spot for you successful the Harris-Walz coalition, and we volition proceed moving to gain your support," Dillon said.
Cheney is the latest successful a agelong enactment of Republicans who precocious announced their enactment of Harris.
More than 200 Republicans who worked for erstwhile President George H.W. Bush, erstwhile President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed Harris successful a missive that said ideology would beryllium "irreparably jeopardized" by different Trump administration. They urged mean Republicans and independents successful battleground states who helped elite President Biden "to instrumentality a brave basal erstwhile more."
Their announcement followed speeches from respective Republicans astatine past month's Democratic National Convention successful which they excoriated Trump's enactment and personality. Olivia Troye, who served arsenic an advisor to erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence, Stephanie Grisham — 1 of Trump's property secretaries and a apical adjutant to Melania Trump — and erstwhile Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois were among the Republicans who spoke retired against the GOP statesmanlike nominee.
Caitlin Yilek is simply a authorities newsman astatine CBSNews.com, based successful Washington, D.C. She antecedently worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a subordinate of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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