STORY: :: Liz Cheney calls Trump's actions on Jan 6 'depravity' while campaigning with Harris

:: October 3, 2024

:: Ripon, Wisconsin

"Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice our Capitol, to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name and to violate the law and the Constitution in order to seize power for himself. I don't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, that is depravity and we must never become numb to it."

"I know that the most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to our Constitution. I tell you, I have never voted for a Democrat. But this year, I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris."

Cheney and her father Dick Cheney, who was vice president under George W. Bush, are staunch conservatives and two of the most prominent Republicans to have endorsed Harris against Trump.

Both have sharply criticized Trump, the Republican nominee, calling his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifying.

"I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray tanning," Cheney joked, describing herself as a Ronald Reagan conservative. "I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris," she said, her first vote ever for a Democrat.

The former House of Representatives member said she and Harris may disagree on some things but they are bound together by their duty to the Constitution. Harris will be a president "who will defend the rule of law," Cheney said.

Cheney's comments could help Harris as she tries to court Republican and centrist voters ahead of the Nov. 5 election.