The country’s four most prominent anti-Trump Republican women appeared on stage together for the first time Wednesday night in an attempt to push undecided voters into Vice President Kamala Harris’s corner.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney was joined by former Trump administration officials Alyssa Farah Griffin, now appearing on The View, Cassidy Hutchinson, known for her surprising testimony on January 6, and Sarah Matthews, an outspoken deputy press secretary.
Cheney joined Harris on the campaign trail for the first time Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party, which is also in a key swing state.
On Wednesday, the four women were in the suburbs of Philadelphia, one of the main areas of Pennsylvania, the most important swing state.
The women issued stark warnings about a second Trump term and expressed disappointment that so few Republicans, especially so few men, crossed the aisle to support Harris.
“Ultimately, for those undecided voters, the real question is whether they are willing to risk putting the power of the most powerful office in the nation and the entire world in the hands of someone depraved,” Cheney told the crowd.
Former Trump officials Cassidy Hutchinson, Sarah Matthews, Alyssa Farah Griffin and former Rep. Liz Cheney joined forces Wednesday and insisted that undecided voters should back Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election.
Griffin, who interviewed Harris Tuesday on The View, resigned from his White House job in December 2020.
She explained to the audience that she did it “because I was uncomfortable with the lies about the election.”
She was among Trump officials who sent text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get the crowd to call out the then-president during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
While he called January 6 a “horrible day,” he added, “that was just kind of a summary of who Donald Trump, the man, is.”
“He is the person with the worst moral character I have ever worked for,” she said.
Griffin then warned what could be expected in a second term.
“In the first term you had people like Vice President Pence, a flawed actor, but someone who I really think tried to guide him down the right path and keep him focused and within the confines of the Constitution,” he said.
The View’s Alyssa Farah (left) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (right) appeared at an event in suburban Philadelphia and warned of the dangers of a second Trump term and expressed disappointment that more Republicans weren’t joining them.
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) campaigned for the first time Thursday with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (right), who endorsed the Democrat. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, has also endorsed Harris.
He said those types of people would not be welcome in the second round.
“They don’t want Ronald Reagan Republicans, they want Tucker Carlson Republicans, so buckle up,” Griffin said.
Hutchinson became a public figure after testifying in June 2022 before the January 6 House committee.
He told the panel that when Trump discovered that Attorney General Bill Barr had told the Associated Press that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, the then-president threw his lunch against the wall.
Hutchinson testified that he entered the White House dining room and “noticed ketchup dripping down the wall.” And there’s a broken porcelain plate on the floor.
She had also been the source of testimony that said Trump got into an altercation in the car with his Secret Service detail because he was not allowed to go to the US Capitol on January 6.
For this testimony, Trump publicly attacked her, calling her “totally false” and “bad news.”
Cassidy Hutchinson testified that former President Donald Trump threw his lunch against a wall and got into an altercation in his car when the Secret Service refused to take him to the US Capitol on January 6.
Cassidy Hutchinson spoke about how “scary” and “terrifying” the reaction has been after testifying against former President Donald Trump before the House committee on January 6. “But what scares me most is the possibility of a second Trump term,” he said. said Wednesday
He noted that the reaction “can sometimes be frightening, it can be frightening” and said that “people have their reasons for not wanting to talk more.”
“And without knowing their personal reasons, I don’t feel comfortable reprimanding them or trying to shame them for their decision,” Hutchinson said.
“But what scares me most is the possibility of a second Trump term and knowing that I may not have done everything I can to make sure he never comes near the Oval Office again,” she continued.
“And the closest it is to the Oval Office is Joseph Prettyman’s courthouse when he goes there for his trial,” he said to applause.
Matthews has been making the rounds on television arguing that Republicans should put politics aside in favor of the Constitution.
‘Donald Trump has shown that he will not keep it. We can’t trust him to defend it. And I don’t want to put someone like that in the Oval Office again. She doesn’t deserve to set foot near that, which is why I’m voting for Kamala Harris,” Matthews said.
Griffin then argued that Trump is not a traditional conservative in politics anyway.
“I would also say that Donald Trump has betrayed what it means to be conservative,” he said. “He’s not running based on what made us all Republicans.”
“Whether it’s blocking a border security bill that would have secured the border, whether it’s betraying our allies by not supporting Ukraine, whether it’s caving in to China by backing down on a TikTok bank, there are so many examples,” he said. Griffin. “Wanting to establish tariffs that are going to be a recessive tax for consumers.”
“So you can definitely put politics aside, because he’s not running as a Republican,” The View co-host argued.