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Former
Vice
President
Dick
Cheney
announced
Friday
that he
will
cast his
ballot
for Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
this
fall,
confirming
news
that was
first
made
public
by his
daughter,
former
Rep. Liz
Cheney,
earlier
in the
day.
(NBC
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Dick
Cheney
says he
will
vote for
Kamala
Harris
By
Kanishka
Singh,
and
Steve
Holland
3–4
minutes
Former
Vice
President
Dick
Cheney
speaks
at a
memorial
for
former
House
Minority
Leader
Bob
Michel
at the
Capitol
Building
in
Washington
March 9,
2017.
REUTERS/Aaron
P.
Bernstein/File
Photo
WASHINGTON,
Sept 6
(Reuters)
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Republican
former
Vice
President
Dick
Cheney
said on
Friday
he will
vote for
Democratic
presidential
candidate
Kamala
Harris
over
Republican
former
President
Donald
Trump in
the Nov.
5 U.S.
elections,
following
a
similar
statement
made by
his
daughter
Liz
Cheney
this
week.
WHY IT'S
IMPORTANT
Trump
and
Harris
are
locked
in a
tight
race for
the Nov.
5 vote
and face
off in a
debate
next
week.
Some
Republicans
upset
with
Trump's
control
over
their
party
and his
actions
have
recently
thrown
support
behind
Harris,
including
dozens
of
former
staffers
of
former
Presidents
George
H.W.
Bush and
George
W. Bush.
CONTEXT
Dick
Cheney
served
as vice
president
under
Republican
President
George
W. Bush
from
2001
till
2009.
He has
faced
criticism
over the
years
from
human
rights
groups
as he
played a
large
role in
planning
the U.S.
wars in
Afghanistan
and
Iraq,
which
produced
a heavy
civilian
death
toll and
human
rights
abuses.
In the
case of
Iraq,
the war
was
based on
lies
that
Baghdad
had
weapons
of mass
destruction
that
were
never
found.
Republican
former
congresswoman
Liz
Cheney,
the
former
vice
president's
daughter,
has also
been a
vocal
critic
of the
current
Republican
presidential
candidate,
including
over the
Jan. 6,
2021
storming
of the
U.S.
Capitol
by Trump
supporters.
KEY
QUOTES
Dick
Cheney
said on
Friday
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."
He
added:
"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
Harris
campaign
said on
Friday
that the
Cheneys
had
joined
"a
growing
movement
of
Republicans
putting
country
over
party"
by
supporting
Harris.
Trump
called
the
Cheneys
"irrelevant
RINO" in
a social
media
post on
Friday,
using a
term he
applies
to
Republicans
not
loyal to
him,
which
stands
for
"Republicans
in Name
Only."
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