Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to woo moderate Republicans to sell their souls and cast a ballot for her come Nov. 5 and the strategy she’s using to do so is to hit the campaign trail with former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and visit swing states. I can think of about a million better ways Harris could attempt this feat that wouldn’t involve partnering with a snake that most people despise, but hey, nobody ever said you had to be the sharpest tool in the shed to be a politician, right?
According to the folks at The Daily Caller, Cheney is set to join Harris in Chester County, Pennsylvania, along with stops in Oakland County, Michigan, and Waukesha County, Wisconsin. The pair will be holding moderated discussions with Sarah Longwell, publisher of the neocon “The Bulwark,” and writer for the company, Charlie Sykes.
Former President Donald Trump got on Truth Social and went on the offensive against Cheney and Harris, pointing out the political legacy of the Cheney family and all of the warmongering that former Vice President Dick Cheney did while serving in the Bush administration.
“Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with ‘dumb as a rock’ War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like her father, the man that pushed Bush to ridiculously go to War in the Middle East, also wants to go to War with every Muslim Country known to mankind,” Trump went on to say in the post published Monday.
Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with “dumb as a rock” War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like her father, the man that pushed Bush to ridiculously go to War in the…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) October 21, 2024
It’s a pretty savvy move from the Trump campaign to frame the attack by appealing to Muslim Americans, many of whom live in Michigan. The Daily Caller recently reported on the Muslim activists and socialists fed up with the Biden-Harris administration’s policies toward Israel, who are working overtime to sabotage Kamala’s campaign in the battleground state. If enough Muslims refuse to vote entirely, the state could very well tip in Trump’s favor, according to the activist heading the group, Drive 75.
The Harris-Walz campaign seems to be taking a pretty big, and pretty stupid, gamble. Trotting out Liz Cheney as a political prop maybe, maybe, will energize those affluent, liberal Republican types who cannot stomach the idea of another populist Trump administration. How many of those people are there in Rust Belt states, anyway? However, it seems far more likely, virtually guaranteed, that a Muslim American upset with U.S. support of Israel will be that much more unmotivated to vote by the sight of Cheney campaigning with Harris than a squishy Republican will be excited by it.
Including Cheney could also cause Harris to have some issues with Muslim Americans, given all of the connections the Cheney family has with the wars in the Middle East. She should probably spend time doing what politicians desperate to win elections always do and that’s find the demographic that dislikes them the most and kiss its backside.