On Tuesday, anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney put her support behind two Democratic candidates in key battleground states just a week before election day.
Cheney has been a fierce Trump critic and decided to support Democratic candidates in Michigan and Ohio because the Republican candidates were too aligned with Trump ideals, which she claims is a threat to democracy.
Liz Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, once viewed as extremely conservative but now has been shunned be her own party. She is one of two Republicans to sit on the Jan 6th committee in Congress and as a result she was kicked out of any leadership roles within the Republican party and other committee assignments.
This past summer, she has become so disliked amongst her constituents of Wyoming, that she lost a primary contest for reelection and will not be returning to Congress.
Cheney has turned her back on the Republican party and will continue to campaign for Democrats warning anyone aligned with Trump or his ideals is a danger to Democracy. At a campaign event in Ohio, Cheney explained “while we can say, look, the (President Joe) Biden economic policies are not policies we would support, and we believe in limited government, low taxes and a strong national defense, we don’t even get to have those debates if we elect Donald Trump again.”
“And we don’t get to have that debate if we elect election deniers who embrace what the former president is doing and saying now, and what we know now that he was willing to do, and what we know that he did.”
Liz Cheney has endorsed Democratic candidate Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race over Republican J.D. Vance and Democratic candidate Elissa Slotkin in the Michigan race.
In a recent campaign advertisement, Cheney said “I don’t know that I have ever voted for a Democrat, but if I lived in Arizona, I absolutely would,” but political change may be coming to America and the endorsement from Liz Cheney most likely won’t move the needle in the other direction.