MALVERN, PA. — Vice President Kamala Harris is holding a series of interviews with former Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney in suburban cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin before in-person voting begins in Wisconsin on Monday.
With Election Day roughly two weeks away, the effort is part of the Harris campaign’s effort to reach swing voters in crucial battleground states. Harris will speak with Cheney in suburban Chester County, Pennsylvania; Oakland County, Michigan; and Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
The interviews will be moderated by Bulwark publisher and longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative radio host and author Charlie Sykes.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris moderates a conversation with former Rep. Liz Cheney at the People’s Light Performing Arts Theater in Malvern, PA on October 21, 2024.
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Harris and former President Donald Trump are hosting battleground events this week as they work to win over voters in what will be a tight race. On Monday, Trump is spending time in the battleground state of North Carolina.
The number of actual votes that could move those events, with just two weeks to go, is small but could be significant in states expected to be decided by narrow margins, Joe Zepecki, a Democratic strategist in Milwaukee, told ABC News.
Ideally, Zepecki said, the events “may require one last warning from Republicans in Harris’ reach, one last push in that direction.”
Cheney, a staunch Trump critic, Harris accepted in September despite their party and political differences.
Cheney voted to impeach Trump after the events of January 6, 2021, and served as vice chairman of the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He received backlash from Trump and other Republicans for his criticism of the former president and was censured by the Republican National Committee.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R) arrive at a campaign event at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., on Oct. 3, 2024.
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Since accepting Harris, He has campaigned for Vice President Cheney — including in battleground Wisconsin, where he called Trump petty, vindictive and cruel.
Cheney is among a number of prominent Republicans, including his father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who have pledged to support Harris’ bid.
George Levy, a 66-year-old voter from Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, said he was an independent until Trump entered the political arena in 2015.
“I’m never going back. I’m going to be a Democrat from now on,” he told ABC News while waiting in line to get into the intimate theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb that was the site of Cheney’s first debate. of the day
Liz Cheney poses with an attendee at a campaign event for U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., on October 3, 2024.
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“(Cheney) did the right thing for our country, and I’m proud of him for doing that,” she said. “I know he doesn’t agree with a lot of Democratic policies, but he believes in our country and he loves our country, and I appreciate him speaking out.”
Harris’ events this week will be more interactive as voters watch the vice president take questions, including a town hall with CNN in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
ABC News’ Sarah Beth Hensley contributed to this report.
