{"id":2336959,"date":"2024-09-04T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-who-called-harris-a-radical-liberal-in-2020-now-endorses-her-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:18:47","slug":"liz-cheney-who-called-harris-a-radical-liberal-in-2020-now-endorses-her-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-who-called-harris-a-radical-liberal-in-2020-now-endorses-her-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney, who called Harris \u2018a radical liberal\u2019 in 2020, now endorses her &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheney-who-called-harris-a-radical-liberal-in-2020-now-endorses-her-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2336959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz \u2063Cheney has announced her endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, despite\u200c having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-allowed-recently-covid-positive-rep-onto-house-floor-to-vote-for-her\/\" title=\"Report: Pelosi allowed recently COVID-positive rep. onto House floor to vote for her\">previously criticized<\/a> \u2064her in 2020 as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-erred-in-allowing-hunter-biden-to-forgo-foreign-agent-registration-lawsuit-alleges\/\" title=\"Lawsuit claims Justice Department made mistake by exempting Hunter Biden from foreign agent registration.\">radical \u2062liberal<\/a>.&#8221; Cheney made her endorsement \u2064during a speech at Duke University in North Carolina, arguing that\u200b with the threat posed by Donald\u200c Trump, voting \u2062for Harris is necessary. She expressed concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/backlash-against-disney-grows-after-liberal-actor-in-show-with-gina-carano-made-similar-posts-still-has-job\/\" title=\"Backlash Against Disney Grows After Liberal Actor In Show With Gina Carano Made Similar Posts, Still Has Job\">current political climate<\/a>, emphasizing the importance of not supporting candidates \u200cwho <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-regime-wants-to-silence-bannon\/\" title=\"Biden regime wants to silence Bannon.\">threaten democratic principles<\/a>. Cheney, who lost her congressional seat\u200c due to her efforts to impeach Trump, reflected\u2063 on her previous attacks against Harris, which have resurfaced following her endorsement. Notably, she had characterized Harris as significantly left-leaning and a risk\u2063 to constitutional values.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Liz Cheney, who called Harris &lsquo;a radical liberal&rsquo; in 2020, now endorses her<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1744994\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Wyoming GOP Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Liz Cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> announced her endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates&rsquo; names, particularly in swing states,&rdquo; Cheney said during a speech at Duke University in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"North Carolina\">North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dis u <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Liz_Cheney<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F2UKQRbhrm\">https:\/\/t.co\/F2UKQRbhrm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2Gnoewmdg\">pic.twitter.com\/t2Gnoewmdg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1831457495367479382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">conservative<\/a>, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney lost her congressional seat following her aggressive effort to push for the impeachment of former Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2023 interview with CBS, Cheney slammed Trump running again for president and claimed the United States was &ldquo;sleepwalking into dictatorship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Wyoming Republican had previously called Harris &ldquo;to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren&rdquo; in a Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns &amp; health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov&rsquo;t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what&rsquo;s happening on the streets of Portland &amp; Seattle. We won&rsquo;t give her the chance.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1293310682654416896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong>Her own social media post in 2020 ripping Harris for being a &ldquo;radical liberal&rdquo; also resurfaced following her endorsement for the Democratic nominee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns &amp; health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov&rsquo;t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what&rsquo;s happening on the streets of Portland &amp; Seattle. We won&rsquo;t give her the chance,&rdquo; Cheney said on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JDVance<\/a> annihilates Liz Cheney after she endorsed Kamala earlier today: &#8220;The next presidency of Donald Trump will make sure people like Liz Cheney are laughed out of the Oval Office instead of rewarded. This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other peoples&#8217;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GrpHg3uJ4a\">pic.twitter.com\/GrpHg3uJ4a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1831500720367149285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) responded to Cheney&rsquo;s endorsement during an event in Arizona on Wednesday night with the conservative youth group Turning Point USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The next presidency of Donald Trump will make sure people like Liz Cheney are laughed out of the Oval Office instead of rewarded. This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other peoples&rsquo; children to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that somehow we were going to turn Afghanistan into a thriving liberal democracy and for that, Liz Cheney was willing to kill thousands of her children,&rdquo; Vance said in front of a crowd alongside conservative leader Charlie Kirk on stage.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &ldquo;Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney make interesting partners. They get rich when America&rsquo;s sons and daughters go off to die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of wins wars. They get rich when America gets weaker in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1744994\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1744994\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Cheney, who previously labeled Kamala Harris as &#8216;a radical liberal&#8217; in 2020, has now endorsed her. The former Wyoming GOP representative made the announcement on Wednesday, stating, \u201cI don\u2019t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates\u2019 names, especially in swing states,\u201d during a speech at Duke University in North Carolina. Cheney explained that due to the threat posed by Donald Trump, she would not only refrain from voting for him but would also support Kamala Harris instead. Cheney lost her congressional seat after her strong push for Trump&#8217;s impeachment and criticized his candidacy again during a CBS interview in 2023, warning that America was &#8220;sleepwalking into dictatorship.&#8221; In a past Fox News interview, she had described Harris as being more left-leaning than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Following her endorsement of Harris on Wednesday, a social media post from 2020 resurfaced where she condemned Harris as a &#8220;radical liberal&#8221; who would increase taxes and expand federal government power.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Cheney&#8217;s endorsement of Harris during an event with Turning Point USA in Arizona on Wednesday night, Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) criticized her harshly: \u201cThe next presidency of Donald Trump will ensure people like Liz Cheney are ridiculed rather than rewarded.\u201d He accused Cheney of having sent others&#8217; children to fight for military conflicts based on misguided ideas about transforming Afghanistan into a democracy while profiting from America&#8217;s losses abroad alongside Kamala Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2336960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Liz-Cheney.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32438,40143,39035,40144],"class_list":["post-2336959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-kamala-harris","tag-liz-cheney","tag-political-endorsement","tag-radical-liberal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Liz-Cheney.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}