Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has labeled Donald Trump the biggest threat to America in its history
Former US Vice President and lifelong Republican Dick Cheney has said that he is going to vote for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump, in November’s presidential election.
The former vice president supported Trump when he ran for office for the first time in 2016. However, Cheney has become a harsh critic of the former president since then.
In his statement on Friday, Cheney claimed that “in our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”
The Republican presidential nominee “can never be trusted with power again” because “he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” he claimed, referring to the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021 and Trump’s refusal to concede defeat to his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
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“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,” the 83-year-old wrote.
The former vice president endorsed Harris a day after his daughter, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, announced that she was backing the Democratic nominee.