Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President. His daughter, Liz Cheney, also a prominent figure in the Republican Party, announced her and her father’s endorsements at the Texas Tribune Festival on Friday in Austin. When Cheney left office at the end of the Bush administration, his approval rating was a mere 13 percent. “Few political figures in history have been so reviled,” wrote The Atlantic in 2011.
“Liz Cheney said at the festival, according to the New York Post, “Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris. If you think about the moment we’re in, and you think about how serious this moment is, my dad believes—and he said publicly—there has never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to democracy as Donald Trump is.”
Liz Cheney was one of the two Republicans appointed by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the January 6th Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, which investigated Trump’s alleged role in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The riot occurred at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., while Trump delivered remarks at a rally nearby at the Ellipse. The event was