Progressives upset Kamala Harris is campaigning with Liz Cheney: Report

Some progressive Democrats are upset with Vice President Kamala Harris' determination to thin connected Liz Cheney successful the weeks up of the election, suggesting the vice president should absorption much connected her Democratic base.

"The information of the substance is that determination are a hellhole of a batch much working-class radical who could ballot for Kamala Harris than determination are blimpish Republicans," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., told the Associated Press.

Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican, has appeared connected the run way with Harris respective times. Other progressive leaders, specified arsenic Sanders oregon Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, person been "relegated to low-profile roles," according to the AP. 

"She has to commencement talking much to the needs of working-class people," Sanders told the AP. "I privation this had taken spot 2 months ago. It is what it is."

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Bernie Sanders connected Sunday wherefore VP Kamala Harris was campaigning with Liz Cheney and not him. (Screenshot/CNN)

"There’s been an unusual disconnect betwixt the campaign’s economical populist advertisement strategy and the lawsuit strategy that focuses astir exclusively connected Liz Cheney kumbaya optics that depress the basal close arsenic voting begins and don’t provably triumph much plaything voters than bread-and-butter issues," Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told the AP. 

However, Green praised the Harris run for focusing their ads connected market prices and economics.

Joseph Geevarghese, the enforcement manager of the progressive radical Our Revolution, told the AP that 10% of progressives mightiness not ballot for Harris and warned immoderate mightiness ballot for Trump.

"We conscionable privation to rise a reddish flag. Don’t instrumentality the progressive question for granted," Geevarghese said. "There’s got to beryllium an economical statement astatine the extremity of the day. That’s the No. 1 happening that matters to voters."

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a rally successful Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Sanders was pressed by Jake Tapper connected Sunday astir wherefore Harris was retired campaigning with Cheney, arsenic opposed to himself. 

"What does it accidental that Kamala Harris is starting this week with lone 16 days left, campaigning with Liz Cheney, a precise blimpish erstwhile congresswoman, girl of Dick Cheney, obviously, but she has not yet held a nationalist run lawsuit with you, arguably the person of the progressive question successful the United States?" Tapper asked. 

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Sanders said that it had to bash with "people truly disgusted with Trump’s changeless lying with his effort to forestall the archetypal peaceful modulation of power" and his "undermining of American democracy."

Sanders has campaigned for Harris but has not appeared with the vice president connected the trail. 

The Harris run did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.