“We might not agree on every issue,“ Cheney said at the third event of the day in Brookfield, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee. „But she is somebody you can trust.”
Kamala Harris teamed up with Liz Cheney in three battleground states on Monday to make a bipartisan appeal to Republicans who might be uneasy about Donald Trump, describing the former president as a malignant force that must be excised from American politics.
In an election that’s expected to be decided by thin margins, Democrats are trying to persuade enough people to cross the aisle to nudge Harris over the finish line. It’s a strategy that goes against longtime political doctrine that suggests candidates must tend to their ideological base above all else, sometimes to the detriment of reaching out to swing voters.
But with Trump alienating some Republicans with his election denial and acting increasingly erratically on the campaign trail, Harris is betting there’s a path to victory with college-educated suburban voters who have already been drifting toward the Democratic Party.
Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming, said Harris would “lead this country with a sincere heart.”
“We might not agree on every issue,” she said at the third event of the day in Brookfield, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee. “But she is somebody you can trust.”
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was essentially exiled from the Republican Party for participating in a congressional investigation of Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. She lost her congressional seat in a primary battle two years ago.
It’s not the only issue where Cheney has broken with her party, as she made clear Monday. Even though she considers herself to be “pro-life,” she said abortion restrictions have gone too far since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“I have been very troubled, deeply troubled by what I have watched happen in so many states,” Cheney said.
