While at a rally Thursday in Wisconsin, Vice President Kamala Harris officially picked up the endorsement of former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Former president Donald Trump was also on the campaign trail in the battleground state of Michigan.
The two have never been on the same page when it comes to politics except now.
Liz Cheney says she’s all in for Vice President Harris. She says she never voted for a Democrat before until now.
“I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” said Cheney.
Cheney was the top GOP member of the committee that investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.
Cheney, the highest-ranking Republican to serve on the House select committee that investigated Trump’s efforts to remain in power, recounted what she regarded as Trump’s violation of his “sacred oath” to uphold the Constitution.
“In this country, under our Constitution, our president has a particular, solemn obligation to insure and guarantee the peaceful transfer of power,” Cheney said, adding, “When Donald Trump woke up on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, his intention, despite having lost the election, was that he would remain president.”
She was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection, and then served as one of two GOP members on the House select committee. Viewed by GOP voters as disloyal to the party, Republicans in Wyoming then turned on Cheney, who lost the 2022 Republican primary to a Trump-backed challenger.
Cheney credited former Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to “violate his oath to the Constitution” when he certified Biden’s Electoral College victory in 2020.
“And that is why Mike Pence is not Donald Trump’s running mate today,” she said. “Instead, JD Vance is on the ticket. … Vance has said repeatedly that he would have done what Donald Trump wanted. That he would have rejected electoral votes. He would have thrown out the votes of the people of Wisconsin because he didn’t like the way that you voted. That is tyranny and that is disqualifying.”
“Violence does not and must never determine who rules us. Voters do,” said Cheney.
Former president Donald Trump spent Thursday campaigning in the battleground state of Michigan.
“We are going to defeat lyin’ Kamala Harris, one of the worst candidates ever,” said Trump.
Trump also took a swing at Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s debate performance this week.
“He called himself knucklehead. We don’t want a knucklehead as a president,” said Trump.
Trump is set to return to the site of the July attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania Saturday.
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