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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Katrina vanden Heuvel

Endorsements from Republicans and CEOs won’t help Kamala Harris win

Kamala Harris at an event with Republican Liz Cheney.
‘Rather than gaining media acclaim for joining Liz Cheney in Ripon, Harris might have been better off walking the picket line with striking dockworkers.’ Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney’s campaign event last week in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican party, was a dramatic component of Harris’s ongoing outreach to Republicans. That outreach, begun under President Joe Biden and continuing even more aggressively under Harris, was made clear in an open letter on Thursday in which two dozen Republican former officials and lawmakers in Wisconsin endorsed Harris and her running mate, the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz.

“We have plenty of policy disagreements with Vice President Harris,” the Republicans wrote. “But what we do agree upon is more important. We agree that we cannot afford another four years of the broken promises, election denialism, and chaos of Donald Trump’s leadership.”

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