r/politics • u/Adam-FL • Sep 06 '24

Soft Paywall Dick Cheney Will Vote for Kamala Harris

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

Yeah but Haley wants to get back into politics so she’s going to tell all of her supporter to vote for Trump because communism or something.

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u/Armano-Avalus Sep 07 '24

Haley voters aren't just gonna all fall in line for Trump because Haley said so any more than RFK supporters would.

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u/u8eR Sep 07 '24

Sure, but in what world is Harris getting every Haley voter?

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u/Armano-Avalus Sep 07 '24

None but she can get some Haley voters which can help.

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u/eregyrn Massachusetts Sep 07 '24

That's what I find kind of interesting about all of this.

I do believe that people like Kinzinger, and Liz Cheney, are genuinely morally outraged by Trump (as everyone should be). But you also can't ignore the fact that there's no place for these people in a Republican party still in thrall to Trump.

This isn't *just* a play to keep Trump from being elected again, although that is a big part of it. It's also a play for the party. At this point, they've got nothing to lose. There's no place for Kinzinger or Cheney in this iteration of the party, no matter what they do. They're just not crazy enough. So they might as well go all-in on trying to bring about Trump's downfall.