Kamala Harris will campaign Thursday with Liz Cheney, who has become the spokesperson for Republicans who see Donald Trump as a danger to democracy, shortly after the former president once again claimed, against all evidence, to have won in 2020 .
The vice-president and Democratic candidate is traveling to Wisconsin on Thursday, one of the seven pivotal states in the November 5 presidential election.
She is traveling to the “cradle of the Republican Party”, according to her campaign team, namely a former school in the town of Ripon, located an hour’s drive from Lake Michigan, in the northern United States.
On this historic site, where meetings were held for the creation of the Republican Party in 1854, the Democratic candidate will be accompanied by former Republican parliamentarian Liz Cheney.
Having become a de facto spokesperson for American conservatives opposed to Donald Trump, the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney has already called to vote for Kamala Harris.
Storming of the Capitol
Liz Cheney, who was one of the figures in the investigation by the US Congress into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, appears alongside the Democratic candidate a day after justice published new evidence against the former president.
“With accomplices acting in a private capacity, [Donald Trump] launched a series of increasingly desperate attempts to overturn the result of the election,” said the special prosecutor who is investigating this case at the federal level.
While the Democratic candidate calls on moderate Republicans to transcend partisan divisions in the name of democracy, her rival once again lied by saying she won the 2020 election.
“We won in 2020. The election was rigged,” he said during a rally in Saginaw, an ultra-strategic working-class constituency in Michigan, another swing state in the Great Lakes region.
The indirect voting method means that in the United States, the presidential election is not decided by the votes cast throughout the country, but by those of the electors designated by each state.
The former president knows that the election will undoubtedly be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes, those of voters still undecided in the famous key states.
But he is betting that it is not a moderate speech, but his ever more violent rhetoric that will seduce them.
Insults
In Saginaw, he once again publicly insulted the Democratic vice-president, calling her “crazy”.
“He cannot be president of the United States,” he said, repeatedly using the masculine gender to designate his rival, in this county which had voted for him in 2016 then by a very slim majority for Joe Biden in 2020.
“If you want your country to go to hell […] vote Kamala”, declared the 78-year-old billionaire, promising to be the “champion” of the workers.
The Republican candidate touted his plans for heavy taxes on imports, supposed to protect American industries, and launched again violent attacks on immigration, accusing Kamala Harris, without any evidence, of “importing” criminals from the ‘stranger.
He assured, still without evidence, that President Joe Biden and the vice-president were squandering funds intended for victims of natural disasters, while Hurricane Helene has just ravaged regions of the southeast of the United States, for the benefit of illegal immigrants who would receive “purchase vouchers” and be accommodated “in luxury hotels”.
Many Donald Trump supporters, including businessman Elon Musk, are spreading conspiracy theories that Democrats are bringing in foreigners en masse and legalizing them to vote for them.