Harris Woos Wisconsin Republicans With Liz Cheney And Charlie Sykes
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Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping more Republicans worried about Donald Trump will take heart in Cheney and Sykes' examples.
BROOKFIELD, Wis. ― Vice President Kamala Harris brought her swing-state tour with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and conservative Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes to the traditional heart of Wisconsin conservatism in suburban Waukesha County on Monday night.
It was the third and final conversation-style event between Harris and Cheney ― moderated by Sykes ― on Monday. The earlier events were in the Philadelphia and Detroit suburbs, respectively.
But Waukesha County, which propelled Republican Scott Walker to the governorship in 2010, ushering in a period of right-wing ascendancy, was a fitting final location for a presidential campaign that is aggressively courting moderate Republicans and independents ― the kind cut from the same cloth as Cheney and Sykes ― to keep former President Donald Trump out of the White House. From 2016 to 2020, the affluent county, still a GOP stronghold, swung about six points toward the Democratic presidential nominee.
In keeping with the goal of moving the suburban needle further still, Harris, Cheney and Sykes spent the bulk of their time on areas of agreement: Trump’s disrespect for cornerstone American institutions like free and fair elections, his threat to the U.S.-led liberal order in the world, and his indecent character.
Sykes, an anti-Trump conservative from the Milwaukee suburbs who formally endorsed Harris on Monday, began the event with an election nerd joke about the event taking place in “crucial Waukesha County.”
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