Republican Liz Cheney will join forces in the battleground of Wisconsin. The move is a not-so-subtle nod to what the GOP once was before Trump’s MAGA movement took hold.
They were once an unthinkable team. Now, they’re appearing side by side on the campaign trail with a common goal: to ensure that Donald Trump never returns to power.In a pitch to right-leaning voters to “put country over party”, Cheney - the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney - will appear with Harris at an historic schoolhouse in the city of Ripon, where abolitionists in 1854 created what became the Republican Party.
Then vice president Dick Cheney, back left, applauds as president George W. Bush pauses during his State of the Union address in 2003.Months later, Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, outlining the scale of his actions in a new court filingin Congress to a Trump-endorsed candidate, but until she came out in support of Harris last month, it was widely believed she would not go so far as to back a Democrat.
The endorsement of the Cheneys is designed to show the breadth of Harris’ support and entice people who may be Republican-leaning but do not like Donald Trump or his brandSince becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris has built a broad coalition, ranging from progressive stalwarts such as Bernie Sanders, to Taylor Swift fans and Republicans such as former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake and former White House staffer Stephanie Grisham.
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