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Martin Pengelly in New York and agencies

Liz Cheney backs second Democrat, picking Ryan over Vance for Ohio Senate

Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney was vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, but lost her primary to a Trump-backed challenger. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

The Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has now endorsed two Democrats for election in the midterms next week, backing Tim Ryan in his Ohio US Senate race against JD Vance after endorsing Elissa Slotkin for re-election to the US House in Michigan.

In Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, Cheney told the journalist Judy Woodruff she backed Ryan, currently a Democratic congressman, over Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author and venture capitalist who abandoned criticism of Donald Trump in order to publicly embrace him.

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