Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney met with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party.
As November 5 quickly approaches, the Democratic presidential nominee continues to gain support from prominent Republicans as she and former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, engage in a fierce battle for the Oval Office.
It also coincided with Thursday’s campaign event two dozen Wisconsin Republicans endorsing veep in an open letter.
“We, the undersigned, are Republicans from across the state of Wisconsin who share the same message: Donald Trump is not consistent with Wisconsin’s values,” they wrote. The group included the incumbent GOP district attorney in Buffalo County, Badger State, as well as ordinary Wisconsinites, former state legislators and elected officials.
“To ensure that our democracy and our economy remain strong for another four years, we must elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to the White House,” the letter reads, adding that the November Republican election is “a choice between the Wisconsin values of freedom, democracy and decency , represented by Vice President Harris and Governor Walz, as well as Donald Trump’s complete lack of character, divisive rhetoric and extremism.”
Wisconsin is a critical swing state that flipped from red to blue in the last election – z Biden narrowly won in 2020, after Trump secured Republican Party victory in 2016.
Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, endorsed Harris last month, saying: “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will vote for Kamala Harris.”
Cheney – a vocal Trump critic – he served as vice-chairman the January 6 U.S. House of Representatives committee tasked with investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
She lost her re-election bid for Wyoming’s lone House of Representatives seat to Harriet Hageman in 2022 during the state GOP primary.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney’s father, also he said he would vote for Harris. The prominent Republican Party figure served as a weep during the George W. Bush administration from 2001-2009.
More GOP support
Harris has received endorsements from more than 230 Bush-McCain-Romney alumni and more than 100 Republican national security officials, according to the Harris campaign, in what they describe as a “historic GOP mobilization for Harris.”
The growing group of Republicans backing Harris includes Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump adviser.
During the interview on MSNBC On Wednesday night, Hutchinson said that “as a conservative, I’m really proud to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in this election.”
Hutchinson also revealed that she will be voting for Democrats in the House and Senate, saying she thinks it’s “so important that we get past the Donald Trump era so that America can start to heal.”
Trump in Michigan
Meanwhile, Trump is also campaigning intensively in swing states. He was scheduled to hold a Thursday afternoon rally in Saginaw, Michigan.
The Democratic National Committee rolled out multiple billboards in Michigan ahead of his rally, focusing on Trump and his running mate, Ohio GOP Sen. J.D. Vance, as they continue to deny the results of the 2020 election.
During Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vance sidestepped a question about whether Trump lost the 2020 election, saying he himself was “focused on the future.”
Walz, who asked Vance this question, called his answer “a damn non-answer.”
A version of the DNC billboard is also scheduled to debut in the coming days in Wisconsin and North Carolina, coinciding with Trump’s upcoming rallies in those swing states.
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