Vice President Kamala Harris has been amassing a long list of Republican, oftentimes "Never Trumper," endorsements to her campaign as she embarks on her final sprint to win the White House. Now, one of her major GOP allies, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will join her at an event in Wisconsin.
The event will take place at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, which is considered to be the birthplace of the Republican Party. The appearance is set to be aimed at appealing to Republican and independent voters in the key battleground state.
Harris is expected to note the historical significance of Ripon at the gathering and promise voters that she will uphold the rule of law and the Constitution, even if they disagree with her on policy issues. She is also expected to praise Cheney as a patriot for putting country over party, Axios reports.
Cheney has been a vocal Trump critic for years, particularly for his efforts to overturn the 2020 elections, which led her to support impeachment efforts against him. Eventually, her stances led the House GOP to oust her as conference chair and replace her with a top Trump ally, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik. Cheney went on to serve as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol before losing her seat in Congress in a 2022 primary to a Trump-backed challenger.
The former Rep. endorsed Harris in September at an appearance at Duke University in North Carolina, another swing state, saying she was committed to doing what was necessary to stop Trump from returning to the White House, according to CNN.
"I think it is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I just said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don't believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names, particularly in swing states," she said, adding that she planned to campaign against Trump in battleground states throughout the fall.
The former GOP Rep. also clarified that she had serious policy disagreements with Harris on a variety of issues, but chose to support her because she feels that "those of us who believe in the defense of our democracy, in the defense of our Constitution, and the survival of our republic have a duty in this election cycle to come together to put those things above politics."
Cheney is not the only Republican who has come out supporting the vice president in her bid to the White House. In fact, days after her endorsement, she was joined by her father and former Vice President, Dick Cheney. Other Republicans who have endorsed Harris include former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, and former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.
Her appearance with Harris comes as new evidence in the federal criminal case against Trump over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election became public on Wednesday in a 165-page brief from the special counsel, Jack Smith. The document asserts that there is ample evidence that Trump's efforts to remain in office were those of a desperate losing candidate rather than official acts of a president that would be considered immune from prosecution under a landmark Supreme Court ruling this summer, The New York Times reports.
"The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct," prosecutors wrote. "Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one."
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