Former Republican US Vice President Dick Cheney wants to support the Democratic candidate in the November election Kamala Harris give his vote – and not his party colleague Donald Trump.
“As citizens, each of us has a duty to put the country above partisanship and defend our Constitution. That is why I will cast my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”said the 83-year-old on Friday (local time).
“There has never been a person in the nation’s 248-year history who has been a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”Cheney continued.
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Cheney was the highly controversial number two under US President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. He was considered a hardliner and one of the central figures behind the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. As early as 2022, he had described Trump as the greatest threat to the USA.
Cheney, known for his arch-conservative stance, referred in his renewed criticism primarily to Trump’s role in Storming of the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021when Joe Biden’s election victory was to be officially confirmed there. Five people died in the riots. Trump had previously incited his supporters in a speech. To this day, Trump has not acknowledged his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump calls Cheney “irrelevant”
Previously, Cheney’s daughter, Republican politician and vehement Trump critic Liz Cheneyexpressed her support for Democrat Harris. “Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only will I not vote for Donald Trump, but I will vote for Kamala Harris,” the 58-year-old said on Wednesday in North Carolina.
Trump reacted angrily to the criticism of Cheney on Friday. In a social media post, he called the Cheneys “irrelevant RINOs.” The Republican ex-president uses the term to describe Republicans who are not loyal to him and it stands for “Republicans in Name Only.”
Dick and Liz Cheney join a number of Republican politicians who see Republican presidential candidate Trump as a threat to democracy and are therefore refusing to support him. These include prominent names such as Senator Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, who served as Trump’s Vice President, and Trump’s former security advisor John Bolton.
The US presidential election will take place on November 5. The 78-year-old Trump is running for the third timeHe is currently doing well in the polls, especially in the particularly contested swing states. Head-to-head race with Vice President Harris. (dpa, AFP)
