Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney will campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin – the birthplace of the Republican Party.
As November 5 approaches, the Democratic presidential nominee continues to receive support from prominent Republicans as she and former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, battle it out in a tough competition for the Oval Office.
The election campaign event on Thursday also coincides with this two dozen Republicans from Wisconsin I endorse the Veep in an open letter.
“We, the undersigned, are Republicans from across Wisconsin who deliver the same message: Donald Trump does not align with Wisconsin values,” they wrote. The group included a sitting Republican district attorney for the Badger State’s Buffalo County, as well as ordinary Wisconsin citizens, former state lawmakers and elected officials.
“To ensure 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 said, adding that for Republicans in November, the election was “an election “between the Wisconsin values of freedom, democracy and decency represented by Vice President Harris and Governor Walz and Donald Trump’s complete lack of character, divisive rhetoric and extremism.”
Wisconsin is a critical swing state that has fluctuated between red and blue in recent elections – with Biden narrowly wins in 2020 after Trump a GOP 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 about this deeply and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses.” “I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump, but I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris.”
Cheney – a vocal Trump critic – served as deputy chairman of the Jan. 6 U.S. House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
She lost her re-election for Wyoming’s only House seat in 2022 to Harriet Hageman during the state’s GOP primary.
Also former Vice President Dick Cheney, father of Liz Cheney said he would vote for Harris. The prominent Republican figure served as vice president during George W. Bush’s administration from 2001 to 2009.
More GOP recommendations
According to the Harris campaign, Harris has received endorsements from over 230 Bush-McCain-Romney alumni and more than 100 Republican national security officials, support they call a “historic Republican mobilization for Harris.”
The growing group of Republicans supporting Harris includes Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump adviser.
During an interview on MSNBC On Wednesday night, Hutchinson said she was “really proud as a conservative to have the opportunity to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in this election.”
Hutchinson also announced she would be voting for Democrats in the House and Senate, saying she believes it is “so important that we put this era of Donald Trump behind us so America can begin to heal.”
Trump in Michigan
Trump is now also campaigning intensively in swing states. He was scheduled to hold a rally in Saginaw, Michigan, on Thursday afternoon.
The Democratic National Committee released several billboards ahead of its rally in Michigan focused on Trump and his running mate, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who continue to deny the 2020 election results.
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 the question, called his answer a “fucking non-answer.”
A version of the DNC billboard is also set to premiere in Wisconsin and North Carolina in the coming days, coinciding with Trump’s upcoming rallies in those swing states.
