The image is striking. It will be a milestone in the US presidential elections, although it will not change the present balance of forces. Two women stood side by side on stage in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday, October 3, during a Democratic campaign rally. Two women with often divergent opinions but united by circumstances, those of a new candidacy of Donald Trump, which threatens the rule of law and democracy. Two women with very similar words on this day: Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, came to support the Democratic candidate. “In these elections, putting patriotism before party affiliation is not an aspirationthe Republican stressed. It is our duty. »
The meeting was organized in a symbolic place, where the foundations of the Republican Party were laid in 1854. Liz Cheney recalled, to begin with, her own commitment. Small campaign hand at age 10, first citizen vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984, a long career in the State Department, where he defended his father’s neoconservative line, and then in Congress. “I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spraying self-tanner.” she joked. This historical reminder was intended to respond to the discredit that the former president tries to heap on her, presenting her as a traitor to her own party.
“Today I ask all of you here and those listening across our great country to join us, Liz Cheney said. I ask you to rise to the moment. I ask you to stand firm in the truth and reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump. Instead, I ask you to help us elect Kamala Harris as president. » And the crowd shouts excitedly. : “Thank you, Liz! Thanks, Liz! »
Preserve the Constitution
We knew her cold, ruthless and methodical, as a member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Liz Cheney then promised to take action against Donald Trump, who had been defeated in the primaries in Wyoming. , in August 2022, by supporting another candidate. In August, the former elected, who became a professor at the University of Virginia, did not participate in the Democratic convention in Chicago, unlike other Republicans, such as her former colleague in the House of Representatives, Adam Kinzinger. Liz Cheney reserved her official rally for later, to have more influence on the campaign. He finally announced, in early September, that he would vote for Kamala Harris.
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