Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney was poised Thursday to join Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in Wisconsin to rally support from anti-Trump Republicans.
The joint campaign event spotlights the extraordinary alliance between the liberal Democratic presidential standard bearer and the scion of one of the nation’s best-known conservative political families, all aimed at defeating former President Donald Trump.
Harris plans to note that Republicans like Cheney can count on her to uphold the Constitution and serve the country’s best interests, even if they may not agree with her on every issue, campaign officials said.
The Democratic standard-bearer will declare that a leader like Trump who has publicly vowed to terminate the Constitution should never be allowed to win back the White House.
Cheney, the former lawmaker from Wyoming whose father Dick Cheney was vice president under George W. Bush, is appearing with Harris at a historic one-room schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, where the GOP was founded before the Civil War as an anti-slavery party.
With Harris and Trump locked in a tight race, Wisconsin is one of seven battleground states that will likely determine the winner of the November election.
Cheney was a GOP rising star before breaking with Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. She recently said she would vote for Harris in the November election, building on her earlier vow to do whatever it takes to keep Trump out of power.
“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses … I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” said Cheney, whose father shockingly endorsed Harris last month because of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”
Liz and Dick Cheney are among the many prominent Republicans, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, ex-Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and almost all of Trump’s former cabinet members, who have endorsed Harris.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who blames Trump for putting his life in danger by siccing a violent mob of supporters on him on Jan. 6, says he won’t support either Harris or Trump.
The joint appearance comes a day after Special Counsel Jack Smith filed bombshell new legal papers that further detail Trump’s role in seeking to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
Among many damning new details, the filing says Trump shrugged off a concerned aide’ s concern after finding out that Pence had to flee for his life from the pro-Trump mob baying for his head.
“So what?” Trump told the aide, according to the new filing.
Ex-Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson also announced she too would vote for Harris.
Hutchinson, who delivered bombshell testimony about Trump’s misdeeds and inaction on Jan. 6 to the congressional committee that investigated the attack on democracy, said Trump cannot be trusted.
“The character of our leaders really matters,” Hutchinson told MSNBC Wednesday. “[Trump] cannot be trusted to uphold our rule of law and they can’t be trusted to enact responsible policy. That in and of itself is disqualifying.”