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Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Friday that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in November.

“Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris,” the former Wyoming congresswoman said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.

Liz Cheney’s revelation comes just days after she herself announced she would vote for Harris, citing “the danger posed by Donald Trump.”

In her remarks Friday, the former congresswoman unleashed a torrent of criticism of the Republican presidential nominee, calling Trump “a depraved human being” and dubbing him and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, “woman-hating pigs.”

“Every Republican, every person who’s considering voting for that ticket, really has to think about what they’re enabling, what they’re embracing, and the danger of electing people who will only respect the outcome of the election if they agree with the outcome, and who are willing to set aside the Constitution,” she said in Austin. “And you know, in the case of Donald Trump, promoting, provoking, exploiting violence to seize power.”

The former congresswoman, who previously told CNN she was determined to do whatever it takes to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, said Friday she expected to campaign against the former president in swing states this fall. And she suggested her father shared her views on Trump.

“When you think about the moment we’re in and you think about how serious this moment is, you know, my father believes — and he said this publicly — that there has never been anyone in our country who has posed as serious a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump,” she said.

Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Harris is a remarkable move for the staunch conservative who served as vice president under George W. Bush and was a longtime Wyoming congressman who held various leadership roles in the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.

The former vice president was critical of his party and Trump after the Jan. 6 attack. In campaign ads for his daughter’s 2022 re-election campaign, he called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward.”

“He tried to steal the last election through lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters rejected him,” Dick Cheney said of the former president in the ad.

His daughter’s outspokenness against Trump and the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including her vote to impeach him, led to her losing her leadership position as the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives. The GOP caucus fired her as conference chair in May 2021 and replaced her with Elise Stefanik of New York, a top Trump defender, months after the Jan. 6 attack.

Liz Cheney went on to become vice chair of the House committee investigating the Capitol riots, but ultimately lost her seat in Congress to a Trump-backed Republican challenger in the primaries.

On Friday, she argued that Trump and Vance “did everything they could to drive away Reagan Republicans” and that the duo “certainly did not reflect the importance of that Reagan philosophy of peace through strength and a strong national defense.”

Cheney said she watched parts of the Republican National Convention in July and learned that “it’s not just that the party is trying to cover up what Donald Trump did … the party is actually embracing it.”

Speaking about her decision to endorse Harris, Cheney said that while she has “serious policy differences on a whole range of issues,” she believes “those of us who believe in the defense of our democracy, in the defense of our Constitution and the survival of our republic, have an obligation to come together in this election cycle to put those issues above politics.”

In addition to his support for Harris, Cheney also backed Democratic Rep. Colin Allred’s bid to defeat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

This story has been updated with additional information.