Harris and Cheney: More than simpatico on the campaign trail
In a presidential race too close to call as Vice President Kamala Harris and her opponent, former President Donald Trump, speed toward the finish line just two weeks away, both candidates are practicing their closing arguments with a focus on key battleground states. On Monday, Harris was in Royal Oak, Mich., a nearby suburb of Detroit, on the campaign trail with Liz Cheney, a former Representative from Wyoming. She is among the notable Republicans who have promised to vote for Harris.
According to Washington Post polling, Harris leads Trump in percentage points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, and is tied with him in Nevada. Trump has the upper hand, for the moment, in North Carolina. Seated on stage of Royal Oak Music Theater, with a bevy of supporters behind them and under banners that read “Country Over Party” and “A New Way Forward,” Harris and Cheney fielded questions from Maria Shriver, journalist, former first lady of California, and a Kennedy family member.
“Maria, Let me just add one thing … because it bears repeating,” Harris began. “I have seen a lot of Republicans go to Liz Cheney and thank her. They may not be doing it publicly. They may not be doing it publicly because I think she has shown to your point extraordinary courage, especially in this environment, post-January … and she is not alone.”
Cheney said it wasn’t about courage. “It wasn’t scary at all, in terms of making this decision because when I look at the nature of the threat Donald Trump poses and, look, Donald Trump is doing everything that he can to try to get people to forget about what he did, what he did on January 6, and when you think about that level of instability, the level of erratic decision-making, misogyny, that is not something that you can entrust with the power of the Oval Office.”
She added that Harris possesses the kind of character and integrity that is the role model she would have for the women of the nation.
Near the end of the 40-minute session, Harris closed with words that will probably be repeated again and again as the race becomes tighter. “If you look at where the Republican Party is today,” she said, “there’s been a dangerous embrace of isolationism. A dangerous embrace of tyrants … We need our allies. When Donald Trump says he is going to withdraw from NATO and invites Vladimir Putin to invade NATO and then suggests it is Zelenskyy’s fault Ukraine was invaded … Not only is it not Republican, it’s dangerous.”
Thanks to C-SPAN, the nation had a chance to hear Harris and Cheney in discussion with the residents of Royal Oak. And according to her schedule, she will make other stops in Michigan hoping to hold on to her very tenuous lead in this important battleground state. Activist-filmmaker Michael Moore is doing all he can to bolster her campaign during an appearance on MSNBC with Joy Reid. The Flint native made it clear how significant the Arab vote will be given the large population they have in the state. “Kamala has made up some ground with the Arab community since she entered the race, and replaced Biden for the party,” he said. “But there are still many who are not satisfied with the U.S. aid to Israel and the destruction of Gaza.”
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