Anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney campaigns with Kamala Harris in battleground state

Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney, a high-profile Republican opponent of Donald Trump who urged Americans to reject the ex-president’s “depraved cruelty” and elect his rival.

Vice-President Harris was joined onstage on Thursday in the swing state of Wisconsin by the former congresswoman as the daughter of conservative former vice-president Dick Cheney pleaded with moderate Republicans and independents to put patriotism over partisanship.

With just a little over a month left in the extraordinary 2024 campaign, Harris “is standing in the breach in a critical moment in our nation’s history,” Cheney told the crowd in Ripon, the symbolic birthplace of the Republican Party in 1854.

“I ask you to stand in truth, to reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump. And I ask you instead to help us elect Kamala Harris for president,” she said, to loud cheers and chants of “Thank you Liz!”

Calling Cheney a “true patriot”, Harris thanked the Republican for her courage and “the conviction to speak truth”.