--- title: Dick Cheney's Real Reason For Endorsing Harris Over Trump description: Former Vice President and influential Republican Dick Cheney announced his endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. canonical: https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/ author: Rebecca Schneid article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-09-07T14:47:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T11:56:14.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Dick Cheney's Reason for Endorsing Harris Over Trump og:description: Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney announced his endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. og:url: https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab65d269ba6bb582/698a5aa5b3fce3d0120cd931/Untitled-design-8.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Dick Cheney, Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dick Cheney's Reason for Endorsing Harris Over Trump twitter:description: Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney announced his endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab65d269ba6bb582/698a5aa5b3fce3d0120cd931/Untitled-design-8.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dick Cheney Reveals His Reason for Endorsing Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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Republican Dick Cheney released a statement announcing his endorsement of Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, denouncing Republican nominee Donald Trump. Dick Cheney: Bridget Bennett—Getty Images, Donald Trump: Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Updated: Jan 19, 2026 11:56 AM UTCPublished: Sep 7, 2024 2:47 PM UTC Former Vice President and influential Republican Dick Cheney [released a statement](https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1832167027114410348) announcing his endorsement of Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for President. Speaking out against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, Cheney said that he can “never be trusted with power again.” “In our nation’s 248 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney, 83, said in the statement shared on Sept. 6\. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” he continued, referencing the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Cheney, who served as Vice President under President George W. Bush between 2001 and 2009 went on to say that American citizens have a “duty” to prioritize the nation over partisan politics. The statement came Friday, hours after one of Cheney’s daughters, former Wyoming Republican Representative Liz Cheney revealed on a panel at the Texas Tribune’s annual festival that her father will be voting for Harris. “If you think about the moment we’re in, and you think about how serious this moment is, my dad believes—and he said publicly—there has never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is,” she had said on the panel moderated by journalist Mark Leibovich. > [](https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1832124562538164348) Cheney’s endorsement marks the most high profile Republican politician to announce that they will vote for Harris over Republican nominee Trump, further spotlighting other former establishment Republicans who have yet to come out to endorse Trump during this run for the presidency—many of whom have been critical of Trump in the past—including his own former [Vice President Mike Pence,](https://time.com/6311494/mike-pence-populism-donald-trump-gop-future/) former [President George W. Bush](https://time.com/6097474/george-w-bush-january-6-insurrection/), and former Republican nominee for President [Mitt Romney](https://time.com/5778603/mitt-romney-speech-donald-trump/). The Harris campaign responded in a statement on Friday, supporting the endorsement. “The Vice President is proud to have the support of Vice-President Cheney, and deeply respects his courage to put country over party,” said campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon. Harris [was asked about the Cheneys’ endorsement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XgnIe86i-M) while on the campaign trail, visiting a spice shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She said she was “honored” to have their endorsement, and that it represented the opportunity to “turn the page” on partisan divisiveness. “A lot of what I think is happening, and I was just talking with some folks here in Pittsburgh about it, is that people are exhausted about the division and the attempts to kind of divide us as Americans,” Harris told reporters. “And, them stepping up to make this public statement, I think, is courageous.” Trump reacted to Cheney’s statement via a post shared on his own social media platform, Truth Social. He called the former Vice President an “irrelevant RINO”— which stands for Republican in Name Only and is a term used by some to describe Republicans who are viewed as being disloyal to the party. “He’s the King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, wasting Lives and Trillions of Dollars, just like Comrade Kamala Harris. I am the Peace President, and only I will stop World War III!,” [Trump wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113093196894480530) on Sept. 6\. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Sept. 8, Senator Bernie Sanders—a former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—appeared on NBC's [_Meet the Press_](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/september-8-sen-raphael-warnock-gov-doug-burgum-and-sen-bernie-sanders-218848325791), where he was asked by host Kristen Welker about the Cheneys' support of Harris. "What I think Dick and Liz Cheney are saying is that in this existential moment in American history, it's not just issues," Sanders said. "Cheney and I agree on nothing, no issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations." He went on to add: "I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy. Obviously, on all the issues we have very different points of view." Earlier in the week, ahead of her father's statement, [Liz Cheney herself publicly supported Harris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI%5F4EFr3zLc), announcing her endorsement for the Democratic nominee. “As a conservative and someone who believes in and cares deeply 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,” she said on Sept. 4 at a Sanford School of Public Policy event at Duke University in North Carolina. The former Wyoming representative was [ostracized by Trump-backed Republicans](https://time.com/6206659/liz-cheney-loses-primary-wyoming/) after she sat as one of 10 House Republicans who voted to[ impeach Trump over allegations ](https://time.com/5928988/donald-trump-impeached-second-time/)that he incited the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. _This article originally misidentified Bernie Sanders as a Democratic Senator rather than a former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Dick Cheney Reveals His Reason for Endorsing Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump","datePublished":"2024-09-07T14:47:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-01-19T11:56:14.000Z","description":"The former Republican Vice President announced his endorsement of Democratic nominee Harris.","url":"https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/","keywords":["2024 Elections","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab65d269ba6bb582/698a5aa5b3fce3d0120cd931/Untitled-design-8.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rebecca Schneid","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab65d269ba6bb582/698a5aa5b3fce3d0120cd931/Untitled-design-8.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dick Cheney, Donald Trump","caption":"Republican Dick Cheney released a statement announcing his endorsement of Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, denouncing Republican nominee Donald Trump.","creditText":"Dick Cheney: Bridget Bennett—Getty Images, Donald Trump: Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2024-election/","name":"2024 Elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7018941/dick-cheney-reason-for-endorsing-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/","name":"Dick Cheney Reveals His Reason for Endorsing Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump"}}]}] ```