Vice President Harris is scheduled to campaign in several “blue wall” suburban battleground states next week, where she will be joined by former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, a former rising conservative star in the Republican Party. . He vowed to do everything in his power to prevent Trump from returning to power following the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The Harris campaign announced that Harris and Cheney will team up to hold a series of “moderate conversations” targeting suburban voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The campaign announced that the event will be moderated by Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican strategist and publisher of Bulwark, and conservative radio host and author Charlie Sykes.
Harris and Cheney will address voters in Chester County, Philadelphia, Oakland County, Detroit, and Waukesha County, Milwaukee. The latter will take place the day before early voting begins in the Badger State.
“The View” co-hosts praised former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for endorsing presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris this week. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Harris' campaign is trying to appeal to disaffected Republican voters who are skeptical about supporting former President Trump in November.
The news comes just weeks after Ms. Cheney stumbled to endorse Ms. Harris in Ripon, Wisconsin, making the former Republican lawmaker the Democratic candidate's most prominent conservative surrogate.
Cheney is the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and once rose to a position in the House Republican leadership.
But she was the most high-profile of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Trump in early 2021. The Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was sparked by some Trump supporters who sought to disrupt Congress and were charged with inciting a deadly riot. Certification of President Biden's electoral victory in the 2020 election.
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The conservative congressman and defense hawk soon came under verbal attack from Trump and his allies, and was ultimately ousted from his position as the No. 3 Republican leader in the House.
Cheney, who has been vocal in defending the country's democratic process and emphasizing the importance of putting country over party, has not been a member of the special select committee formed by House Democrats to investigate the Capitol riot. He was one of only two Republicans to serve.
In 2022, she lost the Wyoming Republican Congressional primary to Harriet Hageman, a candidate backed by President Trump.
At a lecture held at Duke University in the battleground state of North Carolina in early September, Cheney announced that she would vote for Harris in the presidential election. Mr. Cheney's father also supported Ms. Harris.
Liz Cheney, second from the right, was the first of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach then-President Trump in early 2021 on charges of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He was a person with a lot of attention. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Our nation faces a threat unlike anything we've faced before: a former president who sought to stay in power by undermining the foundations of our republic,” Cheney warned earlier this month.
She insisted that Trump “can never again trust in power” and stressed that “in this election, it is not a desire, but our duty, to put patriotism above partisanship.”
“What January 6th has shown us is that Donald Trump doesn't have an ounce of compassion. He's despicable. He's vindictive. He's cruel. He is unfit to lead a good and great country,” Cheney said.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event with leading Republican supporters of the White House campaign on October 16, 2024 in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Harris is also endorsed by more than 200 alumni who served in both Bush administrations and under the late Sens. John McCain and Mitt Romney, both Republican presidential candidates in 2008 and 2012. There is. She also has the support of more than 100 former Republican national security officials and other prominent Republicans.
And on Wednesday, at a campaign event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, she joined forces with a group of prominent anti-Trump Republicans, including former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to appeal to Republican votes. .
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The Trump campaign objected to the Republican support for Harris.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during an election town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania on October 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Trump campaign said, “For former 'Republicans' of the past to campaign for four more years of unlimited illegal immigration, rising prices, and endless wars under Kamala Harris, to see their final moments in the light. “It's very pathetic to see this being dug up because it has nothing to do with it.” Pennsylvania state spokesperson Khush Desai told Fox News.
“Fortunately, like all theatrical props, they will all be thrown aside the moment they cease to be of use to the Democratic Party, the moment President Trump is re-elected by the people of Pennsylvania on November 5th. ”
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