Vice President Harris implored Republican lawmakers to join her team at a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, saying they have a place in her quest to defeat Republican candidate and former President Trump. .
“Regardless of your party, no matter who you voted for last time, there's a place for you in this campaign,” Harris said at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. There is room for everyone who is ready to take a stand.” On the page about Donald Trump's chaos and instability, I pledge that you will be the president for all Americans. ”
The event was marked by Harris being joined by a troop of former Republicans who have publicly supported her campaign.
In addition to Harris, former Representatives Adam Kinzinger (Illinois), Barbara Comstock (Virginia), Denver Riggleman (Virginia), former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan, and Bill – Kristol and more than a dozen Republicans joined on stage. , former chief of staff to former Vice President Dan Quayle. More than 100 Republicans attended the event, according to the campaign.
“Thank you for your activism and courage. These are extraordinary times and we all recognize that you have shown the courage to speak out publicly,” Harris said in a statement to the advocacy group. told.
She scolded Trump, calling him “increasingly unstable, less free, and seeking unchecked power.”
“Our campaign is not a fight against something, it's a fight for something. It's a fight for the fundamental principles on which we were founded,” she said.
The campaign event took place in Bucks County, a battleground district in the battleground state of Pennsylvania that President Biden narrowly won in 2020 by a margin of 17,000 votes.
Harris noted that the rally took place near where President George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. She used the image to talk about the Constitution and claim that President Trump does not respect it.
“Though the Founding Fathers often disagreed and often very passionately agreed, the U.S. Constitution ultimately set out the foundations of democracy, including the rule of law, ensuring that there are checks and balances, free and fair. “We established one thing: elections and a peaceful transfer of power,” she said. “They have been sustained because… generations of Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs have cherished them, supported them, and defended them, and now that baton is in our hands. ”
“Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. But he refuses to accept the will of the people and the results of a free and fair election,” she added, writing on January 6, 2021, ” referring to violent” mobs.
Kinzinger, a known critic of Trump, spoke before Harris.
“We have to put the country first. We have to put the country before the party and like you, I also put the country first,” he said. spoke. “Democracy has no political parties. Democracy is a living, breathing idea that defines us as a nation.”
He also urged other Republicans to vote for Harris, calling it a “conservative choice.”
Harris was introduced by Pennsylvania farmers Bob and Christina Lang, who previously voted for Trump but now say Trump doesn't care about “the Union and the Constitution.” insisted.
The Bucks County rally was the second in a series of “party over county” events, following a rally by former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and others in Ripon, Wisconsin, a known Republican stronghold.
