Liz Cheney Says She’s Voting for Harris Because Trump Will Light the Constitution on Fire in a Second Term

Donald Trump made his pitch to Pennsylvania voters last night, telling them they have to vote for him even if they don’t want to, which is not usually considered a winning campaign strategy.

At a town hall with Fox News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the ex-president claimed voters in the state must go with him because Kamala Harris will ban fracking—which, it turns out, is not actually true. After host Sean Hannity played an old clip of Harris saying she supported a ban on the practice, Trump responded: “She will do that. There’s no chance that she’s gonna allow it. The election will take place—if she won, you’re not gonna have any fracking in Pennsylvania. You have 500,000 jobs. Think of that—it’s your biggest business, and you get a big majority of your income from fracking, and you have somebody that’s not gonna allow fracking. She’s not gonna allow it. You can’t take the chance. You have no choice. You’ve gotta vote for me. Even if you don’t like me, you can sit there and say, ‘I can’t stand that guy, but there’s no way I’m gonna vote for her.’”

While Harris previously said, in 2019, that she would ban fracking, she has since declared she would not do so as president. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash last week, the vice president said: “What I have seen is that we can grow, and we can increase a clean-energy economy without banning fracking.”

Speaking of voting or not voting for Trump, former representative Liz Cheney, a lifelong Republican and the eldest daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, said yesterday evening at Duke University that not only will she be declining to vote for Trump come November, but she’ll be casting her ballot for Harris. In a conversation with students at the school, Cheney explained that it is simply not enough to not vote for the GOP candidate. “I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” she said. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares 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.”

Cheney was one of two Republicans, the other being former representative Adam Kinzinger, who sat on the January 6 committee that investigated Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the attack on the Capitol that followed. So she knows a little something about the danger of giving Trump a second term in office. Still, it was far from a sure thing that she would outright endorse Harris; on Tuesday, Pat Toomey, a former GOP senator from Pennsylvania, said he would not be supporting either candidate. “When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me—you lose me at that point,” Toomey told CNBC. “It is an acceptable position for me to say that neither of these candidates can be my choice for president.” Clearly, Cheney does not feel that’s going far enough.

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