Kamala Harris And Liz Cheney Campaign Together For The First Time

RIPON, Wis. ― Vice President Kamala Harris made an unlikely appearance with an unlikely surrogate, showing how former President Donald Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election have scrambled traditional political alliances.

Appearing alongside former Rep. Liz Cheney, once the third-highest ranking House Republican and the daughter of a man regularly viewed as one of liberalism’s biggest enemies two decades ago, Harris tore into Trump as an enemy of the Constitution and rule of law.

“The tragic truth that we are facing in this election for president of the United States is that there is actually an honest question about whether one of the candidates will uphold the oath to the Constitution of the United States,” Harris said.

Cheney, a one-time Trump supporter who broke with him over the Jan. 6 insurrection, and who subsequently helped lead the congressional investigation into Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election, landed similar attacks while also praising Harris as a type of pragmatic Democrat who should not scare away her fellow conservatives.

“In this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty,” said Cheney. “Our survival as a republic depends on a peaceful transition of power.”

The joint appearance with Cheney is the highest-profile effort by the Harris campaign since the Democratic National Convention to extend a hand to Republicans, a tactic the campaign hopes can convince voters to view the race as a democracy-or-bust referendum ―but which Republicans have disparaged as irrelevant.

“Our nation is not some spoil to be won,” Harris said. “In the face of those who would endanger our magnificent experiment, people of every party