WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Sunday that if dissident Republicans want to defeat former President Donald Trump this fall, they should actually cast votes for Vice President Kamala Harris rather than writing in other names or not voting at all.
With the race a virtual dead heat, not voting or writing in other Republicans’ names could help Trump prevail in tight battleground states, Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Two days before Harris and Trump take the debate stage, Cheney called the former president an unprecedented danger to democracy.
They have suggested they may vote for Harris, not vote at all, or write in another person’s name.
Among the anti-Trump Republicans: Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
“Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, along with his daughter,” Trump said Friday on his Truth Social website.
Cheney said she cast her first vote for President Ronald Reagan in 1984, and she compared Trump unfavorably that conservative icon.
“There is absolutely no chance that Ronald Reagan would be supporting Donald Trump,” she said.
Asked in she was still a Republican, Cheney demurred.
“I’m certainly not a Trump Republican,” Cheney said.
Former Representative from Washington, D.C. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming. said on Sunday that conservative Republicans should vote for Vice President Kamala Harris instead of writing in different names or not casting a ballot at all if they want to defeat outgoing President Donald Trump this autumn.
According to Cheney, who appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” with the race at a virtual dead heat, Trump may win in close battleground states if Republicans abstain from voting or write in the names of other Republicans. “. .
“You’ve got to take the extra step given the closeness of this election, especially if you’re going to find yourself voting in a swing state,” the former congresswoman from Wyoming stated, adding that she had never previously voted for a Democrat.
Cheney referred to the former president as an unprecedented threat to democracy two days before Harris and Trump entered the debate ring.
At one point, Cheney remarked, “The Republicans have nominated somebody who – who, you know, is depraved.”.
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Many well-known Republicans have declared they will not be supporting Trump this time around, including Mitt Romney, the 2012 presidential nominee, and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence. They have offered to write in another person’s name, abstain from voting, or vote for Harris.
Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is one of the anti-Trump Republicans.
Dick Cheney, a former Democratic Party nemesis and one of the most conservative public figures of the last fifty years, declared on Friday that “there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”. ****.
In a statement declaring his intention to support Harris, Dick Cheney claimed that Trump “tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him dot.”. To protect our Constitution, it is our collective responsibility as citizens to put country before party. “.”.
The GOP establishment has failed and has disregarded working class voters, and Trump and his allies have criticized Cheneys as “Republicans In Name Only” and as tools of this movement.
“Dick Cheney and his daughter are irrelevant RINOs,” Trump declared on his Truth Social website on Friday.
Arkansas Gov. Former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee, who made an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, asserted that the majority of Republicans do in fact support Trump and called Cheney a “non-factor.”.
“You don’t get to call yourself a conservative or Republican when you support the most radical nominee the Democrats have ever put up,” Sanders said, not in an offensive way.
Because Trump is “not a conservative,” Cheney stated in her ABC interview that she is also against him. She cited his numerous threats to bring legal action against political rivals as well as his plans for tariffs that would completely destroy international trade.
Speaking negatively about Trump, Cheney compared him to the conservative icon Ronald Reagan, who she claimed to have voted for in 1984. “It is highly unlikely that Ronald Reagan would be endorsing Donald Trump,” the spokesperson declared.
Cheney shook her head when asked if she was still a Republican. She did state that she wished to assist in reviving the GOP.
Regarding Trump, Cheney declared, “I’m definitely not a Republican.”. “I lean to the right. “. .
