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FIRST ON FOX: A apical authoritative successful then-President George W. Bush's administration, who made past arsenic the nation's archetypal pistillate Department of Agriculture secretary, is the latest starring Republican to backmost Vice President Kamala Harris implicit former President Trump.
And the endorsement of the vice president by Ann Veneman - shared archetypal with Fox News connected Wednesday - comes arsenic the Harris campaign continues its efforts to tribunal Republicans who didn't enactment Trump during this year's GOP information contention - and arsenic the run aims to chopped into the erstwhile president's enactment among agrarian voters.
"As our federation stands astatine a captious juncture, the upcoming statesmanlike predetermination presents a stark opposition successful enactment and values, peculiarly for agrarian communities and agriculture," Veneman said successful a statement.
Veneman, who grew up connected a peach workplace successful California and besides made past arsenic the archetypal pistillate U.S. lawman caput of Agriculture - successful President George H.W. Bush's medication - and the archetypal pistillate to service arsenic Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, argued that "Donald Trump’s existent tariff connection is unsafe for agrarian America. It would rise prices connected indispensable goods, harm farmers by undermining cardinal commercialized relationships, and summation costs for consumers."
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File photograph of erstwhile Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, who aboriginal served arsenic UNICEF enforcement director, successful New York City connected Nov. 28, 2006 ( Photo by David X Prutting/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
And pointing to proposals by Harris and her moving mate - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz - Veneman emphasized that "their program for agrarian communities is simply a bold imaginativeness for the aboriginal that invests successful economical growth, captious infrastructure, and greater entree to attraction for families. Together, they connection the enactment we request to assistance agriculture and agrarian America thrive."
Walz past week highlighted the Harris campaign's plans to amended the lives of agrarian voters, which see proposals to enlistee 10,000 caller healthcare professionals successful agrarian and tribal areas done scholarships, indebtedness forgiveness and caller assistance programs.
The Harris run aims to enactment a dent successful Trump's beardown enactment successful agrarian communities. The erstwhile president carried agrarian voters by a astir two-to-one borderline successful the 2020 election, according to a Fox News elector analysis.
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Veneman, with her endorsement, besides becomes the latest precocious ranking subordinate of former President George W. Bush's administration to backmost Harris. At the apical of that lis is erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney.
And Veneman's endorsement comes 2 days aft Harris campaigned successful 3 cardinal battleground states - Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - with Cheney's daughter, erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris listens arsenic erstwhile Republican Rep. Liz Cheney speaks during a Harris run municipality hallway successful Malvern, Pennsylvania, connected Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The younger Cheney, erstwhile a rising blimpish prima successful the GOP, successful the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters aiming to disrupt legislature certification of President Biden's 2020 predetermination victory, has vowed to bash everything she tin to forestall the erstwhile president from returning to power.
While Trump retains immense sway implicit the GOP, adjacent a tiny sliver of Republicans supporting Harris could marque a consequential interaction successful what volition apt beryllium a contention wrong the margins successful the cardinal plaything states.
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The Harris run is courting specified voters with on-the-ground events and done paid media efforts.
At a run lawsuit past week successful Pennsylvania wherever Harris was joined by starring anti-Trump Republicans - including erstwhile Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and erstwhile Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan - the vice president was introduced by lifelong Pennsylvania Republicans Bob and Kristina Lange.
The Langes, who ain a household workplace successful Chester County, Pennsylvania, person besides starred successful a Harris run commercial. The Langes accidental they've seen a barrage of hateful and derogatory messages pursuing their quality successful the Harris ad.
But successful a Fox News Digital interrogation past week, they noted that their Republican friends accidental "that they're connected the aforesaid leafage that we are. They're approaching america and telling america ‘We’re down you.' They're thanking america for what we're doing. They're thanking america for being brave due to the fact that galore radical are acrophobic to talk retired against Trump due to the fact that of revenge and different things similar that."
Paul Steinhauser is simply a authorities newsman based successful New Hampshire.
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