RIPON — Dem presidential nominee Kamala Harris today condemned Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and vowed to be a “president for all Americans” as she sought to appeal to GOP voters in the birthplace of the Republican Party.
Harris spoke at a rally with former GOP U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who has endorsed her campaign. Cheney is an outspoken Trump critic who led the House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack following the former president’s 2020 loss.
“If people across Wisconsin and our nation are willing to do what Liz is doing, to stand up for the rule of law, democratic ideals and the Constitution of the United States, then together I know we can chart a new way forward,” Harris said. “Not as members of any one party, but as Americans.”
Harris said she has never wavered in upholding her oath of office.
“And therein lies the profound difference between Donald Trump and me,” Harris said. “He who violated the oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, and — make no mistake — he who, if given the chance, would violate it again.”
Cheney took the stage to several rounds of the crowd chanting, “Thank you, Liz”. The former Wyoming representative condemned Trump for inciting his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. She said she had never voted for a Dem, but would proudly cast her vote for Harris.
“Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice our Capitol, to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name, and to violate the law and the Constitution in order to seize power for himself,” Cheney said. “I don’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, that is depravity, and we must never become numb to it. Any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again.”
Cheney also slammed former GOP Gov. Scott Walker for saying in a post on X yesterday that voters are “long over January 6th.” She said Walker’s comment was “one of the most stunning” things she’s heard from a Republican.
“When you think about what that means that an elected official, a former elected official, is so willing to minimize what happened, to say things like I’ve heard from others, to say, ‘Don’t worry, our institutions held that day,’ — we have a responsibility, all of us, to remind people that our institutions don’t defend themselves,” Cheney said. “We the people have to do that.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung today called Cheney “a stone-cold loser who is so desperate for relevance and attention that she has debased herself by campaigning with a weak, failed, and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris.”
“The both of them are made for each other — proponents of endless wars, killers of Social Security, and enemies of American workers,” Cheung added.
Trump will return to Wisconsin again for a Sunday rally in Juneau at the Dodge County Airport, his fourth campaign stop in the state over an eight-day span.
