RIPON, WI – As she turns up the quantity on her efforts to court docket disgruntled Republicans in her battle with former President Trump for the White Home, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday teamed up with probably the most seen anti-Trump Republican within the city that claims to be the birthplace of the GOP.
Harris campaigned in battleground Wisconsin with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, a one-time rising conservative star within the GOP who, within the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, has vowed to do every thing she will to stop Trump from returning to energy.
“I’ve by no means voted for a Democrat however this yr I’m proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney informed the viewers, as she formally endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee. “As a conservative, as a patriot, as a mom, as somebody who reveres our Structure, I’m honored to hitch her on this pressing trigger.”
Harris praised Cheney as a pacesetter who “places nation above get together and above self – a real patriot.”
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The marketing campaign occasion befell in Ripon, Wisconsin, the place a one-room schoolhouse was designated a nationwide historic landmark because of its position in holding a collection of conferences in 1854 that led to the formation of the Republican Get together.
The youthful Cheney was as soon as rising within the ranks of Home Republican management.
However she was probably the most high-profile of the ten Home Republicans who voted to question then-president Trump in early 2021 on a cost of inciting the lethal Jan. sixth assault on the Capitol, which was waged by right-wing extremists and different Trump supporters who aimed to disrupt congressional certification of President Biden’s Electoral Faculty victory within the 2020 election.
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The conservative lawmaker and protection hawk instantly got here beneath verbal assault from Trump and his allies, and was ultimately ousted from her number-three Home GOP management place.
Cheney, who has been vocal in emphasizing the significance of defending the nation’s democratic course of and of placing nation earlier than get together, was one among solely two Republicans who served on a particular choose committee organized by Home Democrats that investigated the riot on the Capitol.
Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks at a marketing campaign occasion for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at Ripon Faculty in Ripon, Wis., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein) (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
In 2022, she was ousted within the GOP congressional major in Wyoming by a candidate that was backed by Trump.
At a talking occasion in early September at Duke College in swing state North Carolina, Cheney introduced that she could be voting for Harris within the presidential election. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, additionally endorsed Harris.Â
Cheney on Thursday warned that “our republic faces a menace not like any we’ve got confronted earlier than. A former president who tried to remain in energy by unraveling the foundations of our republic.
She argued that Trump “can by no means be trusted with energy once more” and emphasised that “on this election, placing patriotism forward of partisanship shouldn’t be an aspiration, it’s our responsibility.”
“What Jan. 6 reveals us is there may be not an oz, not an oz, of compassion in Donald Trump. He’s petty. He’s vindictive. He’s merciless. And Donald Trump shouldn’t be match to steer this good and nice nation,” Cheney claimed.
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Harris, talking after Cheney, highlighted that “anybody who recklessly tramples on our democratic values as Donald Trump has, anybody who has actively and violently obstructed the desire of the folks and the peaceable switch of energy, as Donald Trump has….mustn’t ever once more stand behind the seal of the President of the US.”
And Harris emphasised that “I take critically my pledge to be a president for all Individuals.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, arrives to talk at a marketing campaign occasion with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., proper, at Ripon Faculty in Ripon, Wis., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein) (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
Cheney was not at all times a fan of Harris.
The Trump marketing campaign on Thursday repeatedly pointed to a social media put up by Cheney in the course of the 2000 election the place she argued that “@KamalaHarris has a extra liberal voting document than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Her radical leftist views-raising taxes, banning gun gross sales, taxpayer $ for abortion & unlawful immigrant well being care, eliminating non-public well being insurance-would be devastating for America.”
Trump, talking with Fox Information’ Invoice Melugin throughout a rally in Michigan on Thursday, stated that Cheney was “horrible” and “a silly warhawk. All she needs to do is shoot missiles at folks.”
On Cheney’s backing of Harris, Trump argued “I feel they harm one another. I feel they’re so unhealthy, each of them.”
The Cheneys are a part of a rising checklist of distinguished Republicans who’re supporting Harris.
Two different high-profile anti-Trump Republicans — former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan – had talking roles on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, which was held six weeks in the past in Chicago.
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois speaks on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information )
And Harris is backed by greater than 200 alumni who served in each Bush administrations or labored for the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2008 and 2012 GOP presidential nominee. She’s additionally supported by greater than 100 Republican former nationwide safety officers and different distinguished Republicans.
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Ripon shouldn’t be the one city that claims to be the birthplace of the GOP. Exeter, New Hampshire additionally has some bragging rites, because it was the location of conferences in 1853 – a yr forward of the Ripon gatherings – by disenchanted political leaders who mentioned the formation of a brand new get together of Republicans.
However officers in Ripon stated the group in Exeter by no means truly shaped a political group, or selected officers, as they did in Wisconsin.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, campaigns with former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the GOP, at an occasion on Oct. 3, 2024 (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
Wisconsin is one among seven essential battleground states with razor-thin margins that determined Biden’s 2020 White Home victory and are more likely to decide if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
With lower than 5 weeks till Election Day in November, Harris and Trump are locked in a margin-of-error race in the important thing swing states.
Whereas Trump retains huge sway over the GOP, even a small sliver of Republicans supporting Harris might make an necessary affect in what is going to seemingly be a race inside the margins within the battleground states.
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