Liz Cheney hits the campaign trail with Kamala Harris four years after calling her a ‘radical leftist’
Former Rep. Liz Cheney will campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, four years after calling her a “radical leftist.”
When Harris was selected as President Joe Biden’s vice president, Cheney denounced the choice, saying the then-California senator had a “more liberal voting record than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.”
Cheney warned in an August 2020 tweet that Harris’ liberal positions on abortion, immigration and health care would be “devastating for America.”
But on Thursday, the former Wyoming lawmaker will show her support for the Democratic candidate by appearing alongside her in Ripon, Wisconsin – considered the birthplace of the Republican Party.
Cheney announced in September that she would vote for Harris after she was ousted by voters in Wyoming for becoming Congress’ most prominent anti-Trump Republican.
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) is joined on the campaign trail Thursday by former Rep. Liz Cheney (right) in Ripon, Wisconsin – considered the birthplace of the Republican Party
The move comes four years after Cheney labeled Harris a “radical left” whose views on abortion, immigration and health care would be “devastating for America.”
“And as a conservative and as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, I am voting for Kamala Harris . she said during an appearance at Duke University in North Carolina, a crucial swing state.
Days later, she revealed that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, would also vote for Harris.
“Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris,” she said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
That move prompted Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton — now a top critic of the ex-president — to reconsider his plan to write down Dick Cheney’s name — though he said on CNN Thursday that he wouldn’t go so far going to cast a ballot for Harris.
While Cheney’s fellow Republican member of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger stood on stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August until she made no public appearance for the Harris campaign on Thursday.
She excused her absence from the convention because “I wanted to make the announcement in a way that was not related to the party politics of the moment.”
“I also happened to be in London at Taylor Swift’s concert,” Cheney admitted.
Swift also supported Harris in September.
Ripon is important because the one-room schoolhouse there, built in 1853, is a National Historic Landmark for its role as the site of meetings that helped form the Republican Party in 1854.
The Harris campaign is trying to wean Republican and independent voters away from Trump, playing its part on Jan. 6 and refusing to admit he lost the 2020 election — the same reasons Cheney, Kinzinger and other ex-Trump aides say they do not support the elections. it.
These attacks gained new fuel this week after Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, refused to answer a question posed by Harris’ vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, during the vice presidential debate from Tuesday evening.
Walz asked Vance who won the 2020 election.
‘Tim, I’m focused on the future. Has Kamala Harris stopped Americans from expressing their opinions in the wake of the 2020 Covid situation?” Vance replied.
Walz scoffed at it, calling it a “damn non-answer.”
In addition, special counsel Jack Smith unveiled stunning new evidence on Wednesday in a new filing for Trump’s January 6 federal case.
The 165-page dossier portrays Trump’s attempt to claim victory regardless of the actual outcome as a private citizen’s plot to steal the election in an effort to circumvent the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.
Allies and aides are said to have wanted to “sow confusion” over the election results, with instructions to “bring them into revolt.”