Vice President Kamala Harris and former US Representative Liz Cheney described former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and national security in a bipartisan appeal to Republican and undecided voters Monday in Chester County, Pennsylvania, as the 2024 presidential election enters its final stretch RIGHT.
Harris and Cheney launched a three-state campaign tour with moderate conversation at Malvern. THE vice-president and former MP will also be in Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday.
“People around the world are watching us,” the Democratic candidate said. “And sometimes I worry a little bit about whether we as Americans really understand how important we are to the world.”
Monday was Harris’ second time in Pennsylvania in as many weeks to speak to Republican voters worried about voting for Trump. The Keystone State’s 19 electoral votes are crucial to either Harris or Trump’s path to victory, and a CBS News Poll Conducted in early September, the two were tied in Pennsylvania with 50% each. Pennsylvania voted for Trump in 2016, but shifted to President Biden in 2020.
Harris said she wanted to turn the page on the last decade of American politics influenced by the former president and that her presidency would “launch a new generation of leaders.” She said a Harris administration would not be a continuation of a Biden administration, saying she would bring her own ideas to the table.
The vice president also claimed that Trump had used the presidency as a way to “belittle and divide us.”
“I think people are exhausted by it, rightfully so,” Harris said. “And it doesn’t build the strength of our nation to tell the American people that we need to be wary of each other, watch out for each other.”
Cheney was part of the Republican leadership in the House before supporting Trump’s second impeachment following the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and was ultimately defeated by a Trump-backed challenger in a GOP primary. She explained that she decision to endorse Harris started with her being a conservative who prioritizes the Constitution over her political party. She said the choice between Harris and Trump on foreign policy was “absolutely clear,” calling Trump “totally erratic, completely unstable.”
“Our adversaries know they can play Donald Trump,” Cheney said. “They absolutely know they can play him, and we just can’t afford to take that risk.”
The former congresswoman said the choice in the November election came down to defending the Constitution, emphasizing that Trump does not accept the Constitution. 2020 election results And January 6 as proof the former president is a danger to democracy.
“I know that the most conservative of all conservative principles is fidelity to the Constitution,” Cheney said. “In this race, you have to choose between someone who has been faithful to the Constitution, who will be faithful, and Donald Trump, who, it’s not just us predicting how he will act. We have watched what he did after the last election. We looked at what he did on January 6.
Cheney also said her experience working overseas before being elected to Congress showed how quickly democracies can collapse.
“I know how quickly democracies can collapse,” she said. “And I know as Americans we can get used to thinking, ‘Well, we don’t have to worry about that here.’ But I tell you again, as someone who has witnessed how quickly this can happen, this is what is on the ballot.”
Cheney said she thought some Republicans would vote for Harris but wouldn’t say so publicly.
Harris concluded by calling for a return to a “healthy two-party system.”
“We need to be able to have interesting, intense debates about fact-based issues,” Harris said. “Let’s start there.”
In a statement, Trump campaign spokesperson in Pennsylvania Kush Desai said of Monday’s event: “Showing off irrelevant former ‘Republicans’ from the past at campaign events does not change anything has Kamala Harris running to extend her record of unlimited illegal immigration, rising. prices and endless wars abroad within four years.”
