{"id":88336,"date":"2024-09-07T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T06:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-to-vote-for-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T06:02:59","slug":"former-vice-president-dick-cheney-to-vote-for-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-to-vote-for-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Vice-President Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>Former US Vice-President and lifelong Republican Dick Cheney has confirmed he will vote for the Democrats\u2019 Kamala Harris in November\u2019s presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Cheney, seen as an influential figure during the presidency of George W Bush, issued a statement saying there had \u201cnever been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump\u201d, the current Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, had told an audience in Texas earlier that her father planned to back the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Trump] tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,\u201d said Mr Cheney. \u201cHe can never be trusted with power again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our constitution,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is why I will be casting my vote for Vice-President Kamala Harris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cheney\u2019s remarks were welcomed by the Harris camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vice-president is proud to have the support of Vice-President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,\u201d said campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cheney joins a growing list of Republicans who have expressed concern about the candidacy of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Liz Cheney, has already given her backing to Vice-President Harris.<\/p>\n<p>She served on the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riots, and was one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Trump after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Cheney lost her seat in Congress in 2022 to a Trump-backed candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media following Mr Cheney\u2019s statement, Trump called the former vice-president an \u201cirrelevant RINO\u201d \u2013 an acronym which stands for \u201cRepublican in name only\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also described Mr Cheney as the \u201cKing of Endless, Nonsensical Wars\u201d \u2013 alluding to his role in the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-to-vote-for-kamala-harris\/\">Former Vice-President Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Vice-President and lifelong Republican Dick Cheney has confirmed he will vote for the Democrats\u2019 Kamala Harris in November\u2019s presidential election. Mr Cheney, seen as an influential figure during the presidency of George W Bush, issued a statement saying there had \u201cnever been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}