Liz Cheney Will Campaign With Kamala Harris in Crucial Swing State
October 3, 2024
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Republican Liz Cheney will join Kamala Harris for her campaign in Wisconsin as the vice president attempts to maintain her lead in the swing state.
Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman, will join the Harris campaign to target moderate voters in the Rust Belt, where the Democratic candidate is spending the next two days. Harris has a small 2-point lead on Republican former President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan, according to the latest polls.
A vocal critic of Trump, Cheney publicly endorsed Harris last month alongside her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. She has repeatedly called for moderate Republican voters to back the Democrat over Trump. Newsweek contacted the Harris campaign and a representative of Liz Cheney for more information on the joint events.
“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump but I am voting for Kamala Harris,” Liz Cheney told students at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in September.
“Donald Trump presents a challenge and threat fundamentally to the republic. We see it on a daily basis. Somebody who was willing to use violence in order to attempt to seize power, to stay in power,” Cheney added.
The former congresswoman was the leading Republican on the January 6 investigation committee into the 2021 attack on the Capitol and was one of just 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump following the riots.
This led to the Republican former president endorsing Liz Cheney’s opponent, Harriet Hageman, in the Republican primary for her Wyoming seat in 2022, which she lost.
Wisconsin narrowly voted for President Joe Biden in 2020; Biden beat Trump by just over 20,000 ballots, carrying the state’s 10 Electoral College votes with 49.45 percent.
Liz Cheney, former Republican representative from Wyoming, speaks after being presented with the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government on June 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. She will campaign with Democrat presidential nominee… Liz Cheney, former Republican representative from Wyoming, speaks after being presented with the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government on June 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. She will campaign with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Wisconsin.
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Harris’ most reliable path to victory in November rests on maintaining a lead in Wisconsin and its Rust Belt neighbors, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
With those three swing states, plus Nebraska’s second district, Harris would have exactly 270 Electoral College votes, the threshold for winning the election.
Harris holds a small lead in the Badger State, with the latest polling aggregates putting her 1.7 points ahead of Trump there. This is one of the larger polling leads she has among the swing states, but it is still well within the margin of error.
Harris and Trump will both be in the Midwest this week, as the Republican’s campaign continues to focus on reclaiming the states that handed him the win in 2016 over Hillary Clinton.
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