Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) urged former President Bush to support Vice President Harris during an episode of the The New Yorker Radio Hour broadcast Friday.

“I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out, but I think it’s time, and I wish he would,” Cheney said during the taping at the New Yorker Festival .

The GOP leader is one of the most high-profile members to publicly criticize former President Trump while actively campaigning for Vice President Harris. However, in recent days, former President Bush’s daughter, Barbara, has also hit the campaign trail for support Harris in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters at the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Bush told People Magazine in a statement Tuesday. “I hope they will move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

Former President Bush kept his promise to not officially supporting a candidate in the 2024 race. In September, Cheney and his father, former Vice President Dick Cheney who served under Bush endorsed Harris.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, no individual has ever posed a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” said Vice President Cheney. said of the Republican candidate in a 2022 ad for his daughter.

Earlier this month, she campaigned for the Democratic nominee in her home state of Wisconsin, a battleground that will be crucial in determining the next president.

At The New Yorker festival, Cheney also addressed the Washington Post’s announcement that he not supporting a presidential candidate earlier this week.

“When Jeff Bezos is apparently afraid to give his support to the only candidate in the race who is a responsible, stable adult because he fears Donald Trump, it shows why we must work so hard to make sure Donald Trump is not elected ,” she told the New Yorker Festival, adding that she canceled his Post subscription.

After the news broke, Rep. Cheney said the decision by Bezos and potentially others to remain neutral may have been made by “”fear.”

“And I also think why we shouldn’t forget what happened, forget who took courageous stands,” she said at the festival.

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