Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney to stump at birthplace of Republican Party

In an effort to triumph the ballot of disgruntled Republicans arsenic she battles erstwhile President Trump successful the contention for the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the municipality that claims to beryllium the birthplace of the GOP.

A elder Harris run authoritative says that the vice president connected Thursday volition squad up successful battleground Wisconsin with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, a one-time rising blimpish prima successful the GOP who became her party's astir disposable anti-Trump leader.

The run lawsuit volition instrumentality spot successful Ripon, Wisconsin, wherever a one-room schoolhouse was designated a nationalist historical landmark owed to its relation successful holding a bid of meetings successful 1854 that led to the enactment of the Republican Party.

According to her campaign, Harris plans to spotlight the value of that infinitesimal and that spot – arsenic she makes different nonstop entreaty to Republican voters frustrated that Trump is their party's statesmanlike nominee - and arsenic she reiterates her pledge to beryllium a president for each Americans.

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a rally connected Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Harris is besides expected to praise Cheney for her courageousness and patriotism successful putting state implicit party.

Cheney, astatine a speaking lawsuit successful aboriginal September astatine Duke University successful plaything authorities North Carolina, announced that she would beryllium voting for Harris successful the statesmanlike election.

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"As a conservative, arsenic idiosyncratic who believes successful and cares astir the Constitution, I person thought profoundly astir this, and due to the fact that of the information that Donald Trump poses, not lone americium I not voting for Donald Trump, but I volition beryllium voting for Kamala Harris."

Cheney's father, erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, besides endorsed Harris. 

The younger Cheney was erstwhile rising successful the ranks of House Republican leadership 

Liz Cheney attends Liz Cheney successful Conversation with David Rubenstein astatine The 92nd Street Y, New York connected June 26, 2023 successful New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

But she was the astir high-profile of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-president Trump successful aboriginal 2021 connected a charge of inciting the deadly Jan. 6th onslaught connected the Capitol, which was waged by right-wing extremists and different Trump supporters who aimed to disrupt legislature certification of President Biden’s Electoral College triumph successful the 2020 election.

The blimpish lawmaker and defence hawk instantly came nether verbal onslaught from Trump and his allies, and was yet ousted from her number-three House GOP enactment position.

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Cheney, who has been vocal successful emphasizing the value of defending the nation's antiauthoritarian process and of putting state earlier party, was 1 of lone 2 Republicans who served connected a peculiar prime committee organized by House Democrats that investigated the riot astatine the Capitol.

In 2022, she was ousted successful the GOP legislature superior successful Wyoming to a campaigner that was backed by Trump.

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming departs aft speaking to supporters during a superior nighttime lawsuit connected August 16, 2022 successful Jackson, Wyoming. Rep. Cheney was defeated successful her superior contention by Wyoming Republican legislature campaigner Harriet Hageman.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Cheney — who has argued that the erstwhile president is simply a "liar," a "con man" and a imaginable "tyrant" who, if elected again, would "torch the Constitution" — vowed aft leaving Congress that "I volition bash everything I tin to marque definite [Trump] is ne'er anyplace adjacent the Oval Office again."

The Harris run says that the vice president, astatine her lawsuit with Cheney, plans to enactment that portion Republicans whitethorn not hold with her connected each issue, she promises to uphold the Constitution, America’s cardinal principles, and the regularisation of law.

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The Cheneys are portion of a increasing database of salient Republicans who are supporting Harris.

Two different high-profile anti-Trump Republicans — erstwhile Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and erstwhile Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan - had speaking roles astatine the Democratic National Convention, which was held six weeks agone successful Chicago.

Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois speaks astatine the Democratic National Convention, connected Aug. 22, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois  (Paul Steinhauser - Fox News )

And Harris is backed by much than 200 alumni who served successful some Bush administrations oregon worked for the precocious Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2008 and 2012 GOP statesmanlike nominee. She's besides supported by much than 100 Republican erstwhile nationalist information officials and different salient Republicans.

Ripon is not the lone municipality that claims to beryllium the birthplace of the GOP. Exeter, New Hampshire besides has immoderate bragging rites, arsenic it was the tract of meetings successful 1853 - a twelvemonth up of the Ripon gatherings - by disenchanted governmental leaders who discussed the enactment of a caller enactment of Republicans.

But officials successful Ripon said the radical successful Exeter ne'er really formed a governmental organization, oregon chose officials, arsenic they did in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is 1 of 7 important battleground states with razor-thin margins that decided Biden's 2020 White House triumph and are apt to find if Harris oregon Trump wins the 2024 statesmanlike election.

With little than 5 weeks until Election Day successful November, Harris and Trump are locked successful a margin-of-error contention successful the cardinal plaything states.

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