Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s most famous conservative critics, requested to the millions of unchoosed Americans who could choose the outcome of the 2024 election, asking them to “refute the depraved unbenevolentty” of the createer pdwellnt.
A createer reconshort-termative from Wyoming, Cheney cast the sapshows in November as noleang less than the future of American democracy as she euniteed alengthyside Kamala Harris in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday, the symbolic birthplace of the up-to-date Reaccessiblean party.
The daughter of Dick Cheney, the Reaccessiblean createer vice-pdwellnt, shelp she had never voted for a Democrat before, but would do so “conceitedly” to asconfident Trump never hgreaters a position of accessible depend aobtain. Her overweighther will unite her in casting his ballot for Harris.
“I comprehend that the most conservative of conservative appreciates is fidelity to our constitution,” Cheney shelp, speaking from a podium decorateed with the vice pdwellntial seal. The crowd broke into a chant: “Thank you, Liz!” A huge sign looming over them proclaimd: “Country over Party.”
Harris praised Cheney’s “courage” for being willing to traverse party lines to finishorse – and campaign alengthyside – the Democratic nominee. During the event, a remarkworthy unitet euniteance that would have been unimaginable in the pre-Trump era, Cheney pitched Harris as a uniteing directer who will defendeddefend American institutions.
Cheney and Harris concur on little politicassociate – only that Trump should not be permited to serve a second term. But their union is part of an effort by the Harris campaign to triumph over Reaccessiblean voters who, enjoy Cheney, apshow in “confineed rulement” and “low taxes” but are drive awayled by Trump and his Maga shiftment.
“No matter your political party, there is a place for you with us and in this campaign,” Harris shelp. “I apshow gravely my pledge to be a pdwellnt for all Americans.”
Harris touts a prolonging collection of finishorsements from famous Reaccessiblean directers and ex-Trump administration officials, including Cassidy Hutchinson, a createer Trump White Hoengage who testified aobtainst him in the January 6 Hoengage hearings, as well as Anthony Scaramucci, createer White Hoengage communications honestor, and Stephanie Grisham, a createer press secretary.
Adam Kinzinger, a createer Illinois reconshort-termative and the only other Reaccessiblean to serve on the January 6 promisetee, also is backing Harris, and forcefilledy denounced Trump in a speech at the Democratic national convention in August.
In a reprisal of her role as the vice-chair of the Hoengage pick promisetee spendigating the 2021 aggression on the US Capitol, Cheney on Thursday methodicassociate recounted for the crowd how Trump had declined for hours to meddle on January 6, instead watching the presentility unfgreater on television.
“After the Capitol had been accessd, he praised the disruptioners. He did not condemn them. That’s who Donald Trump is,” she shelp. Cheney rebuked Reaccessibleans who have sought to “lessen what happened” that day.
“Do not let anyone lie about what happened and what they did,” she shelp, inserting: “Violence does not and must never rerepair who rules us. Voters do.”
Cheney was effectively exiled from her own party after she broke forcefilledy with the createer pdwellnt. But on Thursday, she shelp it was Trump, thrice chosen as the Reaccessiblean nominee, who was flunking to uphgreater the set uping selectimals of the “party of Lincoln”. With a dash of arch humor, she inserted: “I was a Reaccessiblean even before Donald Trump begined spray-tanning.”
Harris’s euniteance with Cheney came one day after a appraise unsealed novel evidence in a federal case aobtainst Trump for his finisheavor to cling to power in 2020. In the court filing, federal prosecutors allege that he amplified dishonest claims of voter deception and “resorted to crimes” in his flunked bid to clearurn the results of an election he lost.
At a rassociate in Michigan earlier on Thursday, Trump repeated the dishonest claim that he won the 2020 pdwellntial election.
“We won. We won,” Trump shelp in Saginaw, a striumphg county in the midwestrict battleground. “We have to be too huge to rig.”
Harris will travel to Michigan on Thursday night, and campaign in Detroit on Friday, as the truthfulates battle for votes in the trio of “blue wall” striumphg states seen as the evidentest path to the White Hoengage.
Leaving the White Hoengage on Thursday, Joe Biden shelp he was difficultly surpascfinishd by the razor-lean margins.
“It always gets this seal,” he tgreater tellers. “She’s going to do fine.”
He also praised her running mate, Tim Walz, the Minnesota ruleor, for his carry outance aobtainst JD Vance, the Reaccessiblean vice-pdwellntial nominee, during Tuesday night’s argue in New York. Near the finish of the 90-minute swap, Walz turned to the subject of the 2020 election: had Trump lost? he asked Vance.
Vance replied that he was “caccessed on the future”.
“That is a damning non-answer,” Walz replied, inserting that Vance’s promisedty to Trump above all else was the reason he and not the createer vice-pdwellnt, Mike Pence, was there on stage that night. The response was clipped and instantly re-packaged by the Harris campaign into a television ad.
On January 6, as protesters chanted: “Hang Mike Pence,” the then vice-pdwellnt resisted presconfident from Trump to refute the votes of the electoral college and returned to the Capitol after it was bachieveed to validate Biden’s triumph.
On Thursday, Cheney claimed Vance, in Pence’s shoes, would have “thrown out the votes of the people of Wisconsin” becaengage they had voted to elect Biden as pdwellnt in 2020. “That is tyranny, and that is disqualifying,” she shelp.
Cheney effectively finished her own political nurtureer by voting to impeach Trump over his role in stoking a mob of helpers that aggressioned the Capitol on 6 January 2021. She was one of equitable two Reaccessibleans willing to serve on the Hoengage pick promisetee spendigation into the aggression that sought to hgreater Trump – and his Reaccessiblean allowrs – accountable for the sprawling effort to clearurn his loss.
She lost a 2022 Reaccessiblean primary, but has remained a vocal critic of the createer pdwellnt. Before Biden stepped aside, Cheney shelp she was mulling a third-party bid.
But on Thursday, she made evident there was no other alternative to Trump. Cheney quoted from a letter that John Adams, the nation’s second pdwellnt, wrote to his wife on the first night he spent in the White Hoengage: “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.”
“Now I am brave,” she shelp, her smile expansivening, “that John Adams unbenevolentt women, too.”
