Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney in a bid to win over Republicans skeptical of Trump

• Former Rep. Liz Cheney and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaigned together in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party.
• "I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year, I am proudly casting my vote" for Harris, Cheney told the crowd.
• The Harris campaign is looking for ways to take advantage of opposition to Trump within the Republican party.

Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney hit the campaign trail with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin, part of a coordinated effort by the Harris campaign to deploy her Republican allies to key battleground states in the final month of the presidential campaign.

"I tell you, I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year, I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris," Cheney told the crowd.

Cheney said in September that both she and her father, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, would be voting for Harris over their party's nominee, former President Donald Trump.

Cheney is a long-time critic of Trump's, and she was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. She later served as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the deadly attack.

"At the very heart of our survival as a republic is the peaceful transition of power," Cheney said Thursday, adding that the president has an obligation to guarantee this. "Every president in our history has fulfilled that duty, every president until Donald Trump."

The joint Harris-Cheney event took place only a day after a federal judge in Washington D.C. unsealed a 165-page filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith, detailing evidence against Trump in his criminal election interference case.

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