Former Rep. Liz Cheney urges women to "vote your conscience"

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney connected Sunday urged women to "vote your conscience" for Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election given nan strict abortion bans successful immoderate states — and moreover if it is against really nan men successful their lives deliberation they should vote. 

Referencing nan Republicans for illustration herself who person publically backed Harris, Cheney said connected "Face nan Nation pinch Margaret Brennan" that "there are besides galore Republicans and independents who are saying 'look, you know, I don't want to bring nan wrath of … Donald Trump and JD Vance down connected me, truthful I'm going to ballot my conscience, I'm not going to talk astir it.'"

"We, you know, obviously, promote that you ballot arsenic a concealed vote," Cheney continued. "You should do what you deliberation is right. And I deliberation you're going to have, frankly, a batch of men and women who will spell into nan voting booth and will ballot their conscience and will ballot for Vice President Harris. They whitethorn not ever opportunity thing publically but nan results will speak for themselves."

The comments echo what Michelle Obama said during a Harris rally successful Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday night. The erstwhile first woman told nan crowd that "if you are a female who lives successful a family of men that don't perceive to you aliases worth your opinion, conscionable retrieve that your ballot is simply a backstage matter. Regardless of nan governmental views of your partner, you get to choose."

Cheney's comments travel arsenic a CBS News canvass released Sunday dug into nan gender spread among voters. According to nan polls, Harris has a 10-point lead complete erstwhile President Donald Trump, and 4 successful 10 women deliberation Trump's run is paying excessively overmuch attraction to men.

Cheney, a Harris run surrogate, said nan run has seen an "unprecedented coalition" of women who support abortion authorities and those who reason them coming together to support Harris. 

Former Rep. Liz Cheney connected "Face nan Nation pinch Margaret Brennan," Oct. 27, 2024. CBS News

"That's because we've seen immoderate of nan conscionable nan draconian laws that person been passed successful places for illustration Texas and North Carolina that are preventing women from getting lifesaving wellness care, preventing women from getting aesculapian attraction that you cognize will guarantee that, if they person a miscarriage, that they tin person babies again, conscionable fundamentally a group of circumstances that can't beryllium maintained," Cheney continued. 

Cheney said she didn't deliberation these groups coming together is astir "putting convictions aside" but alternatively "it's astir looking astatine nan reality connected nan crushed of what's happened since Roe was overturned."

"The thought that that, you know, you've sewage those kinds of policies and authorities laws being put successful spot is really mobilizing women to say, look, you know, you don't person to wantonness being pro-life, but this benignant of circumstance, this benignant of really abhorrent business wherever women can't get aesculapian attraction they need, that conscionable can't spell on," Cheney said.

In September, Cheney called Trump and his moving mate Sen. JD Vance "misogynistic pigs." In a abstracted question and reply connected Sunday, Brennan asked Vance astir that comment.

Instead of straight answering, Vance alternatively called Cheney "the personification whose begetter is responsible for nan deaths of millions of guiltless Arabs and tens of thousands of guiltless American troops, and saying, effectively, that if you elite me, I'm going to person nan overseas argumentation of Dick and Liz Cheney."

In consequence to those comments, Cheney said that Vance is "doing everything they tin to effort to distract from nan truth that nan group who cognize Donald Trump best, including retired four-star Marine Gen. John Kelly, who is simply a golden prima father, person travel retired and said very intelligibly and very straight to nan American group that Donald Trump is not fit, that Donald Trump himself, opinionated adjacent nan graves of our fallen work members, says things for illustration they are suckers and losers."

Cheney added that she is "confident" nan American group tin "see through" that argument.

Cheney was nan third-highest ranking Republican successful nan House earlier being ousted complete her ballot to impeach Trump complete his domiciled successful nan Jan. 6, 2021 onslaught connected nan U.S. Capitol. Harris will beryllium astatine a rally connected Tuesday astatine nan Ellipse — nan aforesaid spot wherever Trump told his supporters to spell to nan Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021. 

"This is nan first statesmanlike predetermination post-January 6, and truthful you know, you've got, successful fact, galore of nan aforesaid group who were promising a reddish activity successful 2022 doing nan aforesaid point now, we're not going to spot it now," Cheney said. "We didn't spot it then. And what Vice President Harris has done, I've watched her do it. I've sat adjacent to her connected nan shape arsenic she does it. She talks astir a full scope of issues. She talks astir market prices, she talks astir women's wellness care, she talks about, you know, Donald Trump's tariff policies, which are massively inflationary, and astatine nan aforesaid time, reminds everybody, you person to person a president who obeys nan norm of law."

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