According to information obtained by Fox News Digital, Vice President Harris' campaign is targeting Republican voters with new outreach efforts through paid media and grassroots-led digital efforts while touting recent endorsements from her Republican opponents.
“Harris is riding the momentum of the Republican Party right now,” Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Digital.
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The Harris campaign pointed to recent endorsements from current and former Republicans, including former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, Jimmy McCain, son of the late Sen. John McCain, and more than 200 staffers who served in Republican administrations.
Vice President Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. (REUTERS/Elisabeth Franz)
Cheney was removed from her position as House Republican Conference Chair due to her work on the House January 6th Committee and her anti-Trump remarks, and lost her reelection bid in 2022. Kinzinger, who also served on the House January 6th Committee, retired from Congress in 2022.
“I'm proud of the bipartisan support we've seen in support of Vice President Harris,” Sams told Fox News Digital, “and we'll continue to work every day to earn the support of Republican voters who want a president like Vice President Harris who believes in patriotism, freedom and the Constitution.”
Liz Cheney (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
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Harris campaign officials also promoted six Republican speakers at last month's Democratic National Convention, including Kinzinger, Trump's former White House national security adviser Olivia Troye and former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Adam Kinzinger (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)
Harris campaign officials also pointed to the Republican support program for Harris that launched last month and includes endorsements from former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Bill Weld, former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Temple Whitman and former Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh.
The Harris campaign also told Fox News Digital that it has a “national Republican engagement director” dedicated to “expanding our campaign's outreach to independents and moderate Republicans.” The campaign said it has spent more than seven figures to communicate with these voters.
But the Trump campaign slammed the Harris campaign's claims of “Republican momentum.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. greets former President Trump at a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024.
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“Kamala's team is feeling threatened and desperately relying on President Trump to endorse him from influential former Democrats like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard,” said Caroline Leavitt, national spokesperson for the Trump campaign. “No sane conservative would vote for Kamala Harris, who is a radical Marxist, soft on crime, open borders, high taxes.”
“We agree with Liz Cheney on one thing,” Leavitt said, pointing to an Aug. 11, 2020 tweet in which Cheney called Harris a “radical liberal.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands with former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who endorsed him, at the 146th Convention of the National Guard Association in Detroit on August 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancia)
Former President Trump last month received endorsements from former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
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Last week, RFK Jr. and Gabbard officially joined the Trump transition team, expanding the “bipartisan” coalition of Trump supporters.
