Vice President Harris will campaign in the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin next week, joining former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in a series of events targeting suburban voters. I plan to participate.
A Harris campaign official said the vice president and Cheney would meet in the suburbs of three major battlegrounds. The event will be moderated by two longtime Republicans. One is Sarah Longwell, a strategist and publisher of Bulwark magazine, and the other is Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio host and author.
Harris and Cheney will address voters in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In Oakland County, Michigan, and Waukesha County, Wisconsin, the latter will take place the day before early voting begins in the Badger State.
Cheney attended a vice presidential campaign event in Wisconsin in early October, marking their first campaign together since Cheney endorsed Harris.
Harris campaign officials pointed out that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley received nearly 50,000 votes in Oakland County in this year's Republican primary. In 2020, Michigan was decided by about 150,000 votes.
After Haley suspended her campaign, she received more than 9,000 votes in Chester County. Pennsylvania was decided in 2020 by about 80,000 votes.
Even after dropping out, Haley still received more than 9,000 votes in Waukesha County, which Harris officials noted was decided in 2020 by just 20,000 votes.
The events are part of an ongoing effort by Harris and her campaign to appeal to Republican voters who are skeptical and dissatisfied with former President Trump's support in November.
Harris has the support of several Republicans and appeared in battleground states alongside prominent Republican Trump critics, including Cheney and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).
Harris has said she will include Republicans in her Cabinet and establish a bipartisan advisory council to appeal to moderate Republicans.
Meanwhile, Trump has dismissed concerns that Haley is losing support among primary voters and skeptical Republicans. Asked Friday morning if she would ask Haley to campaign for her, the former president replied, “I'll do what I have to do,” before going on to boast at length about how badly she treated the former ambassador to the United States. Countries participating in the primaries.
