Former Rep. Liz Cheney closed her first appearance on the campaign trail alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Thursday with a plea for voters to support Democratic presidential nominee to “help us right the ship of our democracy.”
Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a three-term Republican House member from Wyoming who served in her party’s congressional leadership, campaigning for a Democrat for president would have been inconceivable before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But by now, it almost seemed a forgone conclusion.
“We must defeat Donald Trump on Nov. 5,” Cheney said, before referencing her campaign efforts supporting her father and President George W. Bush two decades ago.
