Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns alongside former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) in Ripon, Wisconsin, U.S., October 3, 2024.
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Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney hit the marketing campaign path with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin, a part of a coordinated effort by the Harris marketing campaign to deploy her Republican allies to key battleground states within the closing month of the presidential marketing campaign.
“I let you know, I’ve by no means voted for a Democrat, however this 12 months, I’m proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney informed the group.
Cheney mentioned in September that each she and her father, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, can be voting for Harris over their social gathering’s nominee, former President Donald Trump.
Cheney is a long-time critic of Trump’s, and he or she was considered one of simply 10 Home Republicans who voted to question him for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. She later served as vice chair of the Home choose committee that investigated the lethal assault.
“On the very coronary heart of our survival as a republic is the peaceable transition of energy,” Cheney mentioned Thursday, including that the president has an obligation to ensure this. “Each president in our historical past has fulfilled that obligation, each president till Donald Trump.”
Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion with Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (not pictured) in Ripon, Wisconsin, U.S., October 3, 2024.
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The joint Harris-Cheney occasion passed off solely a day after a federal decide in Washington D.C. unsealed a 165-page submitting from Particular Counsel Jack Smith, detailing proof towards Trump in his felony election interference case.
After six years in workplace together with two years as chair of the Home Republican Convention, Cheney misplaced her Wyoming GOP main race in 2022 to Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman. In her main concession speech, Cheney attributed her loss on to her opposition to Trump.
Thursday’s venue was fastidiously chosen: Ripon, Wisconsin is named the birthplace of the Republican Occasion as a result of a one-room schoolhouse there was the positioning of a minimum of two conferences that helped kind the Republican Occasion in 1854. Immediately, the schoolhouse is a Nationwide Historic Landmark.
Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) attends a marketing campaign occasion with Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (not pictured) in Ripon, Wisconsin, U.S., October 3, 2024.
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Harris additionally addressed the importance of the city in her remarks, and promised to be “a president for all Individuals,” in a direct attraction to Republican voters.
“Liz Cheney stands within the most interesting custom of [the Republican party’s] leaders,” mentioned Harris. “And if individuals throughout Wisconsin and our nation are prepared to do what Liz is doing, to face up for the rule of legislation, for our democratic beliefs … then collectively, I do know we are able to chart a brand new means ahead, not as members of anyone social gathering, however as Individuals.”
Flanked by marketing campaign indicators that mentioned “Nation over Occasion,” Harris spoke concerning the significance of a peaceable switch of energy in a democratic republic.
Individuals attend a marketing campaign occasion maintain by Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), in Ripon, Wisconsin, U.S., October 3, 2024.
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“When you share that view, regardless of your political social gathering, there’s a place for you with us on this marketing campaign,” she mentioned.
The Harris marketing campaign has been on the lookout for methods to make the most of opposition to Trump throughout the Republican social gathering.
In August, the marketing campaign launched “Republicans for Harris.” Since then, a small however rising variety of outstanding Republicans have come out in help of Harris’ presidential marketing campaign, together with former Trump White Home aide Cassidy Hutchinson and the Cheneys.
Forward of Harris’ go to, a bunch of over 20 former and present Wisconsin Republican leaders launched the Wisconsin Republicans for Harris-Walz marketing campaign platform, and endorsed Harris for president in an open letter.
“We have now loads of coverage disagreements with Vice President Harris. However what we do agree upon is extra essential,” the group wrote. “We agree that we can not afford one other 4 years of the damaged guarantees, election denialism, and chaos of Donald Trump’s management.”
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) appears to be like on throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Ripon School in Ripon, Wisconsin, U.S., October 3, 2024.
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The group mentioned it could host Republican voter outreach occasions with a concentrate on areas of Wisconsin the place former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley received appreciable help in her GOP presidential main marketing campaign towards Trump.
Though the previous president received Wisconsin’s Electoral School votes in his upset victory over Hillary Clinton within the 2016 presidential race, 4 years later, Democratic President Joe Biden flipped the Badger State again to blue.
Current polls present Harris and Trump primarily tied, or throughout the margin of error, within the presidential race nationally. But most polls present Harris with a small, however constant, lead over Trump in Wisconsin.
Thursday evening’s marketing campaign occasion was Harris’ fifth go to to Wisconsin, and her first go to to the city of Ripon since she launched her presidential marketing campaign in July.
