Donald Trump took no prisoners when he said the alliance between ‘stupid war hawk’ Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris will be ‘bad for both of them.’
Cheney called Donald Trump “depraved” and mocked his “spray tan” while campaigning for the first time for Democratic candidate Harris on Thursday.
The former Wyoming congresswoman joined Harris on stage in Ripon, Wisconsin – considered the birthplace of the Republican Party – and asked her fellow Republicans to cross the aisle and vote for a Democrat, one she previously called a “leftist radical”.
Trump wasn’t exactly moved by his union when asked about it, saying, “Liz Cheney lost in Congress, it was terrible.”
“Liz Cheney is a stupid war hawk, all she wants to do is shoot missiles at people,” Trump added.
Donald Trump took no prisoners when he said the alliance between ‘stupid war hawk’ Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris will be ‘bad for both of them.’
Cheney called Donald Trump “depraved” and mocked his “spray tan” while campaigning for the first time for Democratic candidate Harris on Thursday.
He then predicted a bad outcome for the vice president and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
‘I really think it hurts. I think, frankly, if Kamala… I think they hurt each other! “I think they’re both so bad,” he added, barely able to contain his amusement.
Cheney was emphatic Thursday in her support of Harris in her November race against Trump.
“I assure you, I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year I will proudly vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney said, then echoed Harris-Walz’s campaign slogan: “we’re not backing down.” ‘
The ousted Wyoming lawmaker noted how, as a 10-year-old, she was stamping envelopes for Republican President Gerald Ford’s re-election campaign, cast her first vote for Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984, served in both Bush administrations and was the third most important powerful member of the Republican Party in the House.
“In other words, I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray tanning,” she said, drawing laughter.
The rest of his speech had a much more serious tone.
He talked about how “the most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to the Constitution,” something Trump failed to demonstrate when he tried to overturn the election four years ago.
Cheney was emphatic Thursday in her support of Harris in her November race against Trump.
“I tell you, I’ve never voted for a Democrat, but this year I will proudly vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney said, then echoed Harris-Walz’s campaign slogan, “we’re not going back.”
“In this election, putting patriotism before partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty,” Cheney said.
Cheney, one of only two Republican members of the House Select Committee on January 6, recalled how when Trump was informed that the angry mob outside the Capitol on January 6 wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence, he said: ” And?”
“He said, ‘So what?'” she repeated, eliciting “nooooooos” from the crowd.
He said Trump’s closest aides also provided this information.
“They said that while the attack on our Capitol was happening, Donald Trump was given a note informing him that a civilian had been shot outside the United States House of Representatives,” Cheney recalled. “Donald Trump left the note on the table in front of him, continued watching the attack on television, and still refused to tell the mob to leave the Capitol.”
“That is depravity and we should never become desensitized to it,” he said.
She reminded the audience that 20 years ago, when she was campaigning for her father’s re-election, he and President George W. Bush considered themselves “compassionate conservatives.”
“What January 6 shows us is that there is not one ounce, not one ounce of compassion in Donald Trump,” he said. “He is mean, vindictive and cruel.”
He talked about how “the most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to the Constitution,” something Trump failed to show when he tried to overturn the election four years ago.
“And Donald Trump is unfit to lead this good, great nation,” the former House member added.
Cheney’s comments Thursday marked a shift from four years ago, when she referred to Harris as a “radical leftist.”
When Harris was elected President Joe Biden’s vice president, Cheney criticized the choice, saying the then-California senator had a “more liberal voting record than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.”
Cheney warned that Harris’s liberal positions on abortion, immigration and health care “would be devastating to America,” in an August 2020 tweet.
However, Cheney announced in September that she would vote for Harris after being unseated by Wyoming voters for becoming the most prominent anti-Trump Republican in Congress.
Ripon is important because the one-room schoolhouse, built in 1853, is a National Historic Landmark for its role as a meeting place that helped form the Republican Party in 1854.
Harris’ campaign is trying to draw Republican and independent voters away from Trump, playing its part on Jan. 6 and refusing to admit she lost the 2020 election — the same reasons Cheney, Kinzinger and other former Trump advisers They say they don’t support him.