Another blow for the Republican Party. Liz Cheney, former number three in the Republican Party and former member of Congress, declared on Wednesday, September 4, that she would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the American presidential election in November.
“As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I’ve thought a lot about this issue,” she said during a speech at Duke University in North Carolina, The Washington Post reports.
“And because of the danger that Donald Trump represents, not only will I not vote for (him), I will vote for Kamala Harris,” Liz Cheney said.
By publicly supporting the Democratic candidate, the former elected official from Wyoming, a very conservative state, is definitively ending the ties that unite her with her party, thus joining the long list of Republicans who have spoken out against Donald Trump.
An anti-Trump
During her term in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, Liz Cheney established herself as one of Donald Trump’s leading figures, after supporting him in the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.
In 2021, she served as vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol and spoke out in favor of impeaching Trump, saying at the time that “there has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Before urging his supporters to march to the Capitol, Donald Trump had declared in his speech about Cheney: “We have to get rid of the weak members of Congress, the ones who are not good, the Liz Cheneys of this world.”
Following this disavowal, Liz Cheney was ousted by members of her party from the Wyoming Republican primary, preventing her re-election to the House of Representatives.
Republican camp fracture
Daughter of Dick Cheney, American vice-president under George W. Bush (2001 to 2009), Liz Cheney, 58, is part of a large anti-Trump protest movement led by strong figures in the Republican Party.
His recent statement in support of Kamala Harris follows the publication last week of an open letter signed by more than 200 Republicans who worked for Senators John McCain and Mitt Romney, who announced their support for the Democratic presidential candidate.
Republican figures hostile to Republican billionaire Dolnad Trump include former representatives Adam Kinzinger and Denver Riggleman. More recently, the son of former 2008 Republican presidential candidate and late senator John McCain, Jimmy McCain, assured the American network CNN this Tuesday, September 3, that he would also vote for the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
“I don’t think we have the luxury of putting candidates’ names on the ballot, particularly in key states,” Cheney said Wednesday, referring to voters who sometimes have the option to put someone else’s name on their ballot other than the candidates they officially registered to vote.
THE swing states (“Pivot states” or “key states” editor’s note), such as North Carolina, are at the heart of all electoral strategies for the American presidential elections. In the context of the 2024 election, American polls at the beginning of the year predicted a landslide victory for Donald Trump in this state, before a remarkable rise in favor of Kamala Harris from mid-August, indicates the think tank Cook Political Report.
- BFMTV.com
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