VP Harris to campaign with anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney in key battleground states

Vice President Harris volition run successful respective "blue wall" suburban battleground states adjacent week erstwhile she volition beryllium joined by former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, a one-time rising blimpish prima successful the GOP who, successful the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot connected the U.S. Capitol, has vowed to bash everything she tin to forestall Trump from returning to power.

Harris and Cheney volition squad up for a bid of "moderated conversations" targeting suburban voters successful Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to respective reports citing the Harris run team.  The events volition beryllium moderated by longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, and blimpish vigor big and writer Charlie Sykes, per The Hill. 

Harris and Cheney volition talk to voters successful Chester County, Philadelphia, and Oakland County, Detroit, arsenic good arsenic Waukesha County, Milwaukee. The second volition instrumentality spot the time earlier aboriginal in-person voting begins successful the Badger State.

"The View" co-hosts praised erstwhile Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.,  for endorsing statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris this week. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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The Harris run is seeking to entreaty to disaffected Republican voters who are skeptical of supporting erstwhile President Trump successful November.

The quality comes conscionable weeks aft Cheney stumped for Harris successful Ripon, Wisconsin, with the erstwhile Republican congresswoman becoming the Democratic nominee’s astir salient blimpish surrogate.

Cheney, the girl of erstwhile Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, erstwhile roseate wrong the ranks of House Republican leadership. 

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 January 6th riot astatine the Capitol, which was waged by immoderate Trump supporters who aimed to disrupt legislature certification of President Biden’s Electoral College triumph successful the 2020 election.

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The blimpish lawmaker and defence hawk instantly came nether verbal onslaught from Trump and his allies and was yet ousted from her No. 3 House GOP enactment position.

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 mislaid the GOP legislature superior successful Wyoming to Harriet Hageman, a campaigner backed by Trump.

At a speaking lawsuit successful aboriginal September astatine Duke University successful plaything authorities North Carolina, Cheney announced that she would ballot for Harris successful the statesmanlike election. Cheney's begetter besides endorsed Harris.

Liz Cheney, 2nd from the right, 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 January 6th riot astatine the Capitol. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Cheney earlier this period warned that "our republic faces a menace dissimilar immoderate we person faced before: a erstwhile president who attempted to enactment successful powerfulness by unraveling the foundations of our republic."

She argued that Trump "can ne'er beryllium trusted with powerfulness again" and emphasized that "in this election, putting patriotism up of partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty."

"What January 6 shows america is determination is not an ounce, not an ounce, of compassion successful Donald Trump. He is petty. He is vindictive. He is cruel. And Donald Trump is not acceptable to pb this bully and large nation," Cheney said.

Harris is besides 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 nominees, respectively. She is besides supported by much than 100 Republican erstwhile nationalist information officials and different salient Republicans.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks astatine a run municipality hallway astatine the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds, connected Oct. 14, 2024, successful Oaks, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Trump run has fired backmost astatine Republican enactment of Harris.

"It’s rather pathetic to spot erstwhile ‘Republicans’ of the past dug up retired of irrelevance to person 1 past infinitesimal successful the prima by campaigning for different 4 years of unlimited amerciable immigration, rising prices, and endless wars nether Kamala Harris," Trump run Pennsylvania spokesperson Kush Desai told Fox News.

"Fortunately, arsenic with immoderate different theatrical prop, they’re each going to beryllium tossed speech the infinitesimal they halt being utile for Democrats — which volition beryllium November 5th, erstwhile President Trump is re-elected by Pennsylvanians."