Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris, says his daughter

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Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris, his daughter Liz Cheney, a former U.S. congressman, said Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival.

Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, also supported Democrat Colin Allred in his election campaign against Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.

Liz Cheney endorsed Harris earlier this week at Duke University. She is one of Donald Trump's main critics and has called the former Republican unfit for office since the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris,” she said of her father, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. “When you think about the situation we're in and how serious that situation is, my father believes – and he's said this publicly – that there has never been a person in our country who poses as great a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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