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Harris
woos
Republican
votes
with Liz
Cheney
event,
centrist
moves
By
Trevor
Hunnicutt
and
Gabriella
Borter
4–5
minutes
LAS
VEGAS -
Democratic
presidential
nominee
and U.S.
Vice
President
Harris
holds a
campaign
rally,
in Las
Vegas
Democratic
presidential
nominee
and U.S.
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
gestures
onstage
during a
campaign
event,
in Las
Vegas,
Nevada,
U.S.,
September
29,
2024.
REUTERS/Kevin
Lamarque/File
Photo
Purchase
Licensing
Rights,
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new tab
Oct 3
(Reuters)
- Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
plans to
campaign
with
former
Congresswoman
Liz
Cheney
on
Thursday
in
Wisconsin
as the
Democratic
presidential
candidate
tries to
court
Republican
and
centrist
voters
in a
battleground
state
for the
Nov. 5
election.
Cheney
and her
father
Dick
Cheney,
former
Vice
President
under
George
Bush,
are two
of the
most
prominent
Republicans
to have
endorsed
Harris
against
her
opponent
Donald
Trump.
Both
have
sharply
criticized
Trump,
the
Republican
nominee,
calling
his
refusal
to
accept
the 2020
election
results
and role
in the
Jan. 6,
2021
attack
on the
U.S.
Capitol
disqualifying.
To win
what
polls
show to
be a
very
tight
race
with
Trump,
Harris
needs to
win over
Republicans
and
independents
wary of
him,
without
alienating
her
base,
particularly
in
states
like
Wisconsin
that are
likely
to
decide
the
election.
She has
adopted
a
center-to-right-leaning
stance
on
several
issues,
including
her
staunch
support
for
Israel,
a border
policy
tough on
migrants,
and an
all-of-the-above
energy
strategy
to keep
fuel
costs
low.
However,
recent
polling
shows
Harris
is
struggling
to gain
traction
with
Republican
voters
despite
hundreds
of
former
and
current
Republican
officials
in the
military,
national
security
and
local
governments
having
publicly
backed
her.
While
Harris
led
Trump
47% to
40%
among
all
voters
in a
Sept.
20-23
Reuters/Ipsos
poll,
only 5%
of the
poll's
Republican
respondents
said
they
would
back her
in
November's
election.
Ten
percent
said
they
would
vote for
another
candidate,
did not
know who
they
would
vote for
or would
not
vote.
At
Thursday's
event,
Harris
is
expected
to
praise
Cheney -
a
staunch
conservative
who
opposed
gay
marriage
and
praised,
opens
new tab
the
Supreme
Court's
repeal
of the
right to
abortion
- for
putting
her
country
above
her
party.
Harris
plans to
repeat
her
message
from the
Democratic
Convention
that she
would be
a
president
for all
Americans
regardless
of
party,
and she
will
describe
Trump as
unfit to
hold the
office.
The
event is
set to
take
place in
Ripon,
Wisconsin
at a
one-room
schoolhouse
significant
to the
Republican
party:
it was
the site
of
meetings
that led
to the
party's
formation
in 1854
and is
referred
to as
the
party's
birthplace.
Mary
Anna
Mancuso,
a
Republican
strategist,
said
Harris
was
running
"one of
the most
conservative
platforms
we've
seen
recently,"
but said
she
thought
there
was
little
risk
that a
large
number
of
liberals
would
reject
Harris
because
of it.
"Where
else
would
they go?
They're
not
going to
go and
vote for
Donald
Trump,"
she
said.
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