Former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney cast the November elections as a do-or-die moment for democracy at a campaign rally on Thursday for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground Wisconsin , laying out her most comprehensive case yet for why she’s voting Democrat.
Cheney, a member of the former House Jan. 6 committee and lifelong Republican, made clear that her activism for Harris occurred by no coincidence in the town of Ripon, the GOP’s birthplace in 1854.
“I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray tanning,” Cheney told a crowd of receptive Harris supporters. “I have never voted for a Democrat. But this year, I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Cheney first disclosed last month she would be casting her ballot for Harris, perhaps an unsurprising, if not expected, revelation given her long disdain for Trump that ultimately led the former third-ranking House Republican to lose her seat. But in a move days later that caught many Democrats off guard, her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, also endorsed Harris.