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Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney will campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Thursday, touting her endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee in the crucial battleground state, a senior campaign official told CNN.
The campaign event marks the latest effort from the former Wyoming congresswoman to move undecided voters away from Donald Trump with less than five weeks until Election Day. Cheney, who previously told CNN she was committed to doing what was necessary to stop the former president from returning to the White House, endorsed Harris last month in North Carolina, another swing state.
“I think it is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I just said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” Cheney said during remarks at Duke University in early September. She later said she expected to campaign against Trump in battleground states throughout the fall.
At the Thursday campaign event in Ripon – home to a schoolhouse known as the birthplace of the Republican Party – Harris will make a direct appeal to Republican and independent voters, according to the campaign official. She is expected to note the historical significance of Ripon and promise them that she will uphold the rule of law and the Constitution, even if they disagree with her on policy issues.
Cheney’s zealous opposition to Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election – including her vote to impeach him – eventually led the House GOP to oust her as conference chair and replace her with a top Trump ally, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik. Cheney went on to serve as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. She ultimately lost her seat in Congress in a 2022 primary to a Trump-backed challenger.
Asked for comment regarding Cheney’s decision to appear with Harris, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt pointed CNN to an August 2020 social media post by the Wyoming Republican shortly after Joe Biden picked Harris as his running mate.
“.@KamalaHarris has a more liberal voting record than Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren. Her radical leftist views-raising taxes, banning gun sales, taxpayer $ for abortion & illegal immigrant health care, eliminating private health insurance-would be devastating for America,” Cheney posted on August 12, 2020….
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