Republican Liz Cheney calls Trump 'depraved' and mocks his 'spray-tanning' as she campaigns for Kamala Harris

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney called Donald Trump 'depraved' and mocked his 'spray-tanning' arsenic she campaigned for the archetypal clip for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Cheney joined Harris onstage successful Ripon, Wisconsin - considered the birthplace of the Republican Party - and asked her chap Republicans to transverse the aisle and ballot for a Democrat, 1 she antecedently called a 'radical leftist.' 

'I archer you, I person ne'er voted for a Democrat, but this year, I americium proudly casting my ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris,' Cheney said, past echoed the Harris-Walz run slogan, 'we're not going back.' 

The ousted Wyoming lawmaker noted however she, arsenic a 10-year-old, was sealing envelopes for Republican President Gerald Ford's reelection campaign, formed her archetypal ballot for Republican President Ronald Reagan successful 1984, served successful some Bush administrations and served arsenic the 3rd astir almighty GOP subordinate successful the House. 

'In different words, I was a Republican adjacent earlier Donald Trump started spray-tanning,' she said, garnering laughs. 

The remainder of her code was acold much superior successful tone. 

She talked astir however the 'most blimpish of blimpish values is fidelity to the Constitution,' thing Trump didn't amusement erstwhile helium tried to overturn the predetermination 4 years ago. 

'In this election, putting patriotism up of partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty,' Cheney said. 

Cheney, 1 of lone 2 GOP members of the House Select Committee connected January 6, recalled however erstwhile Trump was informed that the aggravated mob extracurricular the Capitol connected January 6 wanted to bent Vice President Mike Pence helium uttered, 'So what?' 

'He said, "So what?"' she repeated, cuing 'nooooooos' from the crowd. 

She said that Trump's closest aides provided this accusation arsenic well.  

'They said portion the onslaught connected our capitol was happening Donald Trump was handed a enactment informing him that a civilian had been changeable astatine the doorway of the enclosure of the United States of Representatives,' Cheney recalled. 'Donald Trump enactment the enactment down connected the array successful beforehand of him, continued to ticker the atttack connected tv and inactive refused to archer the mob to permission the Capitol.'

'That is depravity and we indispensable ne'er go numb to it,' she said.  

She reminded the assemblage that 20 years ago, erstwhile she was campaigning for her father's reelection bid, helium and President George W. Bush considered themselves 'compassionate conservatives.' 

'What January 6 shows america is that determination is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion successful Donald Trump,' she said. 'He is petty, helium is vindictive and helium is cruel.' 

'And Donald Trump is not acceptable to pb this bully and large nation,' the erstwhile House subordinate added. 

Cheney's comments Thursday were a departure from 4 years agone erstwhile she referred to Harris arsenic a 'radical leftist.' 

When Harris was picked to beryllium President Joe Biden's VP, Cheney blasted the prime saying the then-California legislator had a 'more wide voting grounds than Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren.' 

Cheney warned that Harris' wide positions connected abortion, migration and healthcare 'would beryllium devastating for America,' successful a tweet from August 2020. 

However Cheney announced successful September that she would beryllium voting for Harris aft being ousted by Wyoming voters implicit becoming Congress' astir salient anti-Trump Republican. 

'And arsenic a blimpish and 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 americium voting for Kamala Harris,' she said astatine an quality astatine Duke University successful North Carolina, a captious plaything state.

Days aboriginal she revealed that her father, erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, would beryllium casting a ballot for Harris too. 

'Dick Cheney volition beryllium voting for Kamala Harris,' she said astatine the Texas Tribune Festival successful Austin. 

That determination prompted Trump's erstwhile National Security Advisor John Bolton - present a apical professional of the ex-president - to reconsider his program to write-in Dick Cheney's sanction - though helium said Thursday connected CNN that helium wouldn't spell arsenic acold arsenic to formed a ballot for Harris. 

While Cheney's chap Republican subordinate of the House Select Committee connected January 6, ex-Rep. Adam Kinzinger, took the signifier successful August astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, until Thursday she hadn't appeared publically for the Harris campaign. 

She excused her normal lack due to the fact that 'I wanted to marque the announcement, to bash it successful a mode that wasn't connected to the enactment authorities of the moment.'

'I besides happened to beryllium successful London astatine the Taylor Swift concert,' Cheney confessed.

Swift besides endorsed Harris successful September. 

Ripon is important due to the fact that the one-room schoolhouse there, built successful 1853, is simply a National Historic Landmark for its relation arsenic being the tract of meetings that helped signifier the Republican Party successful 1854. 

The Harris run is trying to peel distant Republican and autarkic voters from Trump, playing up his relation successful January 6 and refusal to admit helium mislaid the 2020 predetermination - the aforesaid reasons Cheney, Kinzinger and different ex-Trump aides accidental they're not supporting him.

Those attacks were fixed caller substance this week aft Trump's moving mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, refused to reply a question posed by Harris' VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, during Tuesday night's vice statesmanlike debate.

Walz asked Vance who won the 2020 election. 

'Tim, I'm focused connected the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their caput successful the aftermath of the 2020 Covid situation?' Vance replied. 

Walz scoffed and called that a 'damning non-answer.' 

Additionally connected Wednesday, Special Counsel Jack Smith unveiled stunning caller evidence in a caller filing for Trump's national January 6 case. 

The 165-page filing casts Trump's efforts to assertion triumph careless of the existent effect arsenic a crippled by a backstage idiosyncratic to bargain the election, trying to get astir the Supreme Court's immunity decision. 

Allies and aides are quoted arsenic saying they wanted to 'sow confusion' astir the predetermination result, with instructions to 'make them riot.'