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Liz Cheney has called on former President George W Bush to break his silence and back Kamala Harris for president. 

Ms Cheney, who has attracted attacks from Trump since she endorsed the Democratic nominee, said it was not difficult for her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, to announce his support for Ms Harris and called on Mr Bush to follow suit.

“He has been absolutely, I would say, as concerned for maybe even longer than I have been about the danger that Donald Trump poses, and I can’t explain why George W Bush hasn’t spoken out, but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would,” Ms Cheney said during a live interview today on The New Yorker’s Radio Hour podcast.

The former president’s office said in September that Mr Bush did not have plans to endorse a candidate during this election, saying he had “retired from presidential politics years ago”.

Country will still be ‘polarised’ under Harris

A band is playing, huge Halloween inflatables dance alongside them, but the topic of conversation around my table was about the election.

One man told Sky News reporter that a second Donald Trump term would be disheartening, while another said it would end in chaos. 

Sipping beers and asking about the UK, they explained to me that this election had been divisive, with family and friends at odds over their political views. 

One of them explained that he had grown up in a Republican family, and while he didn’t say he had voted for Kamala Harris, he did say he was no longer a Republican supporter.

“Behind me,” said the reporter, “there are another two men, Paris and Tomas – both of them have moved to the US from other countries.” 

Tomas, a statistician, originally from Slovakia, said the possibility of another Trump regime was the most important issue going into the election, along with ending the war in Gaza. 

The American voter says there is no way of predicting what way the election will go now, but he thinks the result will be “delayed a little bit”. 

If Ms Harris wins, the voter says he doesn’t think things will be “immediately different” and that the country will remain “polarised”.

“It’s always going to stay polarised, it’s just the nature of the way right now,” he said.