Dick Cheney Is Voting For Kamala Harris. (Lydia O'Connor, Huffington Post)

Wise decision.  From Huffington Post: 

Dick Cheney Is Voting For Kamala Harris

The former vice president has called Donald Trump the greatest threat to the American republic in history.

By Lydia O'Connor

Sep 6, 2024, 03:39 PM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris just nabbed a major Republican endorsement in her mad dash for the White House: former Vice President Dick Cheney will be voting for her.

The former vice president released a statement Friday, a couple hours after his daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) disclosed her father’s plans.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” reads the statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” he wrote. “That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Earlier Friday, Liz Cheney broke the news of her arch-conservative father’s support for the Democratic nominee while speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Friday.

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said to massive applause from the crowd.

.@Liz_Cheney: "Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris." #TribFest24pic.twitter.com/YtI5BaV3Pz

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 6, 2024

The former congresswoman ― who lost her bid for reelection in 2022 after emerging as a major Trump critic, supporting his second impeachment and sitting on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack ― revealed her father’s decision a day after she, too, endorsed Harris.

“It is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names — particularly in swing states,” Liz Cheney said at an event at Duke University.

In an ad for his daughter’s 2022 reelection bid, the elder Cheney slammed Trump as a “coward.”

Former President George W. Bush, whom Cheney served with in the White House from 2000 to 2008, has occasionally spoken critically of Trump since his political ascent, but he has yet to ever endorse any of Trump’s Democratic opponents.

His father, the late former President George H.W. Bush, endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016. 

Numerous Republicans also spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention last month, including some former members of Trump’s administration.