Liz Cheney blasts Trump as 'depraved,' 'unstable,' claims pro-life and pro-choice women rallying behind Harris

Alex Nitzberg
Sun, October 27, 2024 

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, who is backing Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, blasted former President Donald Trump as "unstable," "depraved," and "cruel" during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.

Cheney also suggested that former Trump administration figures who have been speaking out against Trump, like former White House chief of staff John Kelly, "know" that Trump "has no conscience," and is "erratic," "chaotic," and "cruel."

The former congresswoman, who identifies as pro-life, also claimed that since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states put laws in place that prevent women from obtaining "life-saving care." She asserted that there have been situations in which physicians are unsure whether the care a woman requires has been criminalized under state law.

Cheney said that there are pro-life and pro-choice women rallying behind Harris so that they never find themselves in a scenario "where either their own life is at risk, where they can't have babies in the future."

She also appeared on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning to share similar thoughts, including the view that Trump lacks a conscience.

Cheney said that she thinks Donald Trump has ushered "violence … into our politics in a way that we haven't seen before."

When CBS News' Margaret Brennan asked Cheney how she set aside her pro-life views and chose to vote for Harris, Cheney responded, "I don't think it's about putting convictions aside. I think it's about looking at the reality on the ground of what's happened since Roe was overturned."

Cheney was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Later that year, she was ousted from her role as House Republican Conference Chair.

She was one of the House Republicans who served on the House Select Committee that probed the Jan. 6 episode.

While Cheney is a vociferous Trump critic, Trump is also an outspoken Cheney critic.

Trump has referred to Cheney as "Muslim-hating warmonger Liz Cheney," "Crazed Warhawk Liz Cheney," and he has called her "a low IQ War Hawk."

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'Pro-Life' Liz Cheney Urges People To Vote For Harris For 'Life-Saving' Health Care

Paige Skinner
Sun, October 27, 2024 

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) urged people to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris to make sure women have “life-saving health care” and said the overturning of Roe v. Wade is “uniting women who are pro-choice and pro-life.”

“You have pro-life women all across this country who have been watching what’s happened in places like Texas and places like North Carolina, where since Roe was overturned, you had laws put in place at the state level that are preventing women from getting life-saving care,” Cheney said on Sunday’s episode of “State of the Union.”

She continued: “You have women like me, who have been pro-life, are saying, ‘What we have seen happen cannot stand.’”

She referenced the attorney general of Texas suing for the medical records of women who have sought abortions out of state, calling out that former President Donald Trump, who took credit for the overturn of Roe v. Wade, won’t make his medical records public.

At the beginning of September, Cheney announced she would vote for Harris, and a few days later called Trump “depraved” and said that reelecting him would be an “unrecoverable catastrophe” for the country. Cheney was also the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee that investigated the coup attempt in 2021, in which Trump was charged with trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris holds a town hall event with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney Oct. 21. Sara Stathas for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Cheney seems to be walking back her anti-abortion stance. After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, she praised the decision, saying she has “always been strongly pro-life.”

Last week, Cheney campaigned with Harris in Wisconsin, where she said Trump is a “threat” on democracy.

“You don’t have to take my word for it, but look at what people closest to Donald Trump are saying about him,” Cheney said. “We’ve never faced a threat like this before, and I think it’s so important for people to realize this republic only survives if we protect it, and that means putting partisan politics aside and standing up for the Constitution and for what’s right and loving our country.”

Along with Harris, Cheney has also endorsed Democratic Rep. Colin Allred for Senate in his race against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Progressives upset Kamala Harris is campaigning with Liz Cheney: report

Hanna Panreck
Sat, October 26, 2024 


Some progressive Democrats are upset with Vice President Kamala Harris' decision to lean on Liz Cheney in the weeks ahead of the election, suggesting the vice president should focus more on her Democratic base.

"The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more working-class people who could vote for Kamala Harris than there are conservative Republicans," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., told the Associated Press.

Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican, has appeared on the campaign trail with Harris several times. Other progressive leaders, such as Sanders or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been "relegated to low-profile roles," according to the AP.

"She has to start talking more to the needs of working-class people," Sanders told the AP. "I wish this had taken place two months ago. It is what it is."

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Bernie Sanders on Sunday why VP Kamala Harris was campaigning with Liz Cheney and not him.

"There’s been an odd disconnect between the campaign’s economic populist ad strategy and the event strategy that focuses almost exclusively on Liz Cheney kumbaya optics that depress the base right as voting begins and don’t provably win more swing voters than bread-and-butter issues," Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told the AP.

However, Green praised the Harris campaign for focusing their ads on grocery prices and economics.

Joseph Geevarghese, the executive director of the progressive group Our Revolution, told the AP that 10% of progressives might not vote for Harris and warned some might vote for Trump.

"We just want to raise a red flag. Don’t take the progressive movement for granted," Geevarghese said. "There’s got to be an economic argument at the end of the day. That’s the No. 1 thing that matters to voters."

Sanders was pressed by Jake Tapper on Sunday about why Harris was out campaigning with Cheney, as opposed to himself.

"What does it say that Kamala Harris is starting this week with only 16 days left, campaigning with Liz Cheney, a very conservative former congresswoman, daughter of Dick Cheney, obviously, but she has not yet held a public campaign event with you, arguably the leader of the progressive movement in the United States?" Tapper asked.

Sanders said that it had to do with "people really disgusted with Trump’s constant lying with his attempt to prevent the first peaceful transition of power" and his "undermining of American democracy."

Sanders has campaigned for Harris but has not appeared with the vice president on the trail.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.