Liz Cheney campaigns with Kamala Harris for first time, as campaign continues GOP outreach

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Liz Cheney campaigns with Kamala Harris for first time, as campaign continues GOP outreach

Ripon, Wisconsin — Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the highest-profile *********** to announce her support for Vice President Kamala Harris, is joining her on the campaign trail at an event at Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the *********** Party.

Cheney, along with her father, former Vice President ***** Cheney, announced in September that Harris would have their vote. The Cheneys and Harris have practically nothing in common in their views on policy, but they a shared antipathy for former President Donald Trump and see him as a threat to democracy after the ******* on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

“As a *************, 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, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney announced last month during an event at Duke University. 

Cheney was the third highest-ranking *********** in the House before she was ousted for voting to impeach Trump. A Trump-backed challenger then defeated Cheney in her primary. Cheney was one of two Republicans who served on the House Jan. 6 select committee that investigated the riot and what led up to it. That committee recommended that Trump be prosecuted for his conduct surrounding the ******** on the Capitol.

The Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon hosted meetings in 1854 that led to the creation of the *********** Party. It was designated a national historic site in 1974, and Harris is expected to address the significance of the location during her speech, according to a senior Harris campaign official. 

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Former US Representative from Wyoming (R) Liz Cheney speaks onstage during the 2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Beloved Community Commemorative Service at Ebenezer ******** ******* on January 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. 

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Cheney’s appearance with Harris is part of a concerted effort by the campaign to appeal to Republicans disaffected by Trump. 

On Wednesday, the campaign launched a

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featuring a direct-to-camera appeal from a two-time Trump voter in Pennsylvania who argued the former president’s economic plan will not benefit working voters. 

The campaign is also hosting “Republicans for Harris” events across the battleground states this week, including an event with former Reps. Denver Riggleman in North Carolina and Adam Kinzinger in Las Vegas. Kinzinger also served on the House Jan. 6 committee, while Riggleman served as an adviser. 

Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, noted the Cheney endorsement during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday to argue their coalition of support is wide.

“I’m as surprised as anybody of this coalition that Kamala Harris has built, from Bernie Sanders to ***** Cheney to Taylor Swift and a whole bunch of folks in between there,” Walz said. “They don’t all agree on everything, but they are truly optimistic people. They believe in a positive future of this country, and one where our politics can be better than it is.” 

While only a small number of voters who identify as ************* are backing Harris, according to a September CBS News poll, voters who identify as “moderate” favor Harris over Trump by double digits. 

Several *********** officials spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August, including Kinzinger, Georgia Lt. Gov.Geoff Duncan and Olivia Troye, a former adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Their activity for the campaign has continued. Troye has appeared in a Harris campaign ad, and Duncan has also been dispatched as a surrogate for the campaign in recent weeks. 

After a September event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a GOP-leaning portion of the state, Duncan said Trump “makes it ******* for himself” to not lose *********** support because of some of his criticism of *********** officials, such as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

“There’s really no mystery to this. Support for Donald Trump amongst the majority of Republicans is a mile wide and an inch deep. Almost every *********** outside of a small wing of MAGA supporters would love to have somebody other than Donald Trump as their nominee, but that just didn’t happen,” Duncan told CBS News.

Kate Horning, an undecided Pennsylvania voter who attended the event and backed Trump in past elections, said she likes the outreach to Republicans but wants it to be “genuine.”

“There’s a lot of issues here. I’m not here to talk about ********* — I’m concerned about the amount of people coming across the border and how it impacts schools,” she said. 

Since she became the nominee, Harris has tried to appeal to centrists by supporting restrictions on immigration backed on a bipartisan level in Congress, touting herself as a pro-business capitalist and reiterating she would not ban fracking — a position she held as a 2020 presidential primary candidate but abandoned after becoming President Biden’s running mate later that cycle. 

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Aaron Navarro

Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter covering the 2024 elections. He was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles.

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