Ex-GOP strategist 'shocked' by 'Darth Vader Dick Cheney’s' bombshell Harris endorsement



After endorsing Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, arch-conservative former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) made another bombshell announcement on Friday, September 6: Her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is also voting for Harris — not GOP nominee Donald Trump, who both the older and younger Cheney have been highly critical of during the Joe Biden era.

In an official statement reported on X, formerly Twitter, by the Washington Post's James Hohmann, Dick Cheney said, "In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence. (Trump) can never be trusted with power again," Dick Cheney continues. "As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris."

On MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," host Nicolle Wallace — former White House communications director in the George W. Bush Administration — discussed the Dick Cheney bombshell with The Bulwark's Tim Miller, a fellow Never Trump conservative and former GOP strategist.

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Miller — who, like Wallace and the Cheneys, is rooting for Harris — told the "Deadline: White House" host, "Well, Nicole, in some ways, this obviously is a shock: the Darth Vader Dick Cheney voting for the Democrats. It should be a wake-up call to everybody. In other ways, it's not a surprise because of what we've seen from Liz Cheney and just the backbone from the Cheneys."

The former GOP strategist stressed that both Cheneys view Trump as an existential threat to U.S. democracy — a view Miller and Wallace share with them.

"Dick cut an ad for her in her primary that she lost to a MAGA Republican when she was sacrificed at the altar of Donald Trump's insurrection by the Republican Party," Miller told Wallace and others on the panel — including attorney Andrew Weissmann and the Rev. Al Sharpton. "And in that ad, he said: In our nation's 246-year-history, there's never been an individual that was ever been a greater threat than Donald Trump.… I mean, that's as straightforward as it gets. That is classic Dick Cheney."

Miller continued, "You know, love him or hate him, he always was clear-eyed about what he thought was the right approach. And in this case, Dick Cheney is looking at this and seeing Donald Trump as the greatest threat in the history of the republic. I mean, that is not mincing words."

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