Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., arrives, with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, to vote at the Teton County Library during the Republican primary election Aug. 16, 2022, in Jackson Hole, Wyo.Jabin Botsford/The Associated Press
Former vice-president Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will vote for Kamala Harris for president, his daughter Liz Cheney said Friday.
Ms. Cheney, who herself endorsed Ms. Harris on Thursday, made the announcement when asked by Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic magazine during an onstage interview at The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Ms. Cheney said to audience cheers.
“Wow,” Mr. Leibovich replied.
Like his daughter, Mr. Cheney has been an outspoken critic of former president Donald Trump, notably during Ms. Cheney’s ill-fated re-election campaign in 2022.
In a campaign ad for Ms. Cheney as she sought a fourth term as Wyoming’s lone congressperson, Mr. Cheney called Mr. Trump a “coward” for trying to “steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.”
The ad did little good for his daughter in a deep-red state that once held the Cheney family dear but is now thoroughly in Mr. Trump’s corner. By a 2-to-1 margin, Ms. Cheney lost her Republican primary to Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman.
Notably absent from Friday’s endorsement announcement was the former vice-president, who has made few if any public appearances over the past year or more.