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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 congresswoman, will join the Harris campaign in the town of Ripon to target 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.
Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney Endorse Harris
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 Thursday's event.
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"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.
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"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 former president endorsing Cheney's opponent, Harriet Hageman, in the Republican primary for her Wyoming seat in 2022, which Cheney lost.
Harris' Appeal to Red Voters in the Swing State of Wisconsin
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 of the vote.
Harris' most reliable path to victory in November rests on maintaining a lead in Wisconsin and its 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 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Harris Makes a Key Campaign Stop in Ripon
Ripon is not just another campaign stop. Harris will be speaking from the "Little White Schoolhouse" – the birthplace of the GOP.
It is at this schoolhouse, now designated a National Historic Landmark, that a group of former Whigs, Free Soilers, and anti-slavery Democrats banded together in a new political movement that would become known as the Republican Party.
Harris' visit could be seeking to serve as a call to independent and moderate Republican voters, given Cheney's ties to the Republican Party and her own outspoken stance against Trump.
Harris is expected to laud Cheney as a patriot for putting her country over her party, Axios has reported, citing a campaign official.
Update, 10/3/24, 10:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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