2024 Showdown: Anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney says she’s backing Kamala Harris

Former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a one-time rising Republican Party star who became a top GOP critic of former President Trump, says she’ll vote for Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

“I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” Cheney said Wednesday at a speaking event at Duke University in North Carolina.

And she emphasized that “as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Minutes after the Cheney news broke, the Trump campaign posted on social media an interview of Cheney on the Fox News Channel from four years ago taking aim at Harris.

“Her voting record in the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” Cheney argued at the time. “It’s very

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