“There is a place for you in this campaign”

Vice President Harris pleaded with Republicans to join her team on Wednesday, telling them at a rally in Pennsylvania that there was a place for them in her quest to defeat Republican nominee and former President Trump.

“No matter what party you are, no matter who you voted for last time, there is a place for you in this campaign,” Harris said in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. page on the chaos and instability of Donald Trump, and I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.

The event was marked by Harris being joined by a contingent of former Republican lawmakers who publicly supported her campaign.

Harris was joined on stage by more than a dozen Republicans, including former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Illinois), Barbara Comstock (Va.) and Denver Riggleman (Va.); former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan; and Bill Kristol, former chief of staff to former Vice President Dan Quayle. More than 100 Republicans attended the event, according to the campaign.

“I thank you all for everything you do and the courage you show. We are in an extraordinary climate right now and we all recognize the courage you have shown to speak out so publicly,” Harris told the group supporting her.

She chastised Trump, saying he “is increasingly unstable and unbalanced and seeking unchecked power.”

“Our campaign is not a fight against something, it is a fight for something. This is a fight for the fundamental principles on which we were founded,” she said.

The campaign event took place in Bucks County, a swing county in the critical state of Pennsylvania that President Biden narrowly won by 17,000 votes in 2020.

Harris noted that the rally took place near where President George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, during the Revolutionary War. She used these images to talk about the Constitution and claim that Trump does not respect it.

“The Founders often disagreed, often passionately, but ultimately the United States Constitution laid down the foundation of our democracy, including the rule of law, that there would be checks and balances, that we would have a free and fair right. elections and a peaceful transfer of power,” she said.

“These…have endured because generations of Americans from all walks of life, of all creeds, have cherished, supported and defended them. And now the baton is in our hands.

“Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Yet he refuses to accept the will of the people and the results of a free and fair election,” she added, referring to the “violent” crowd of January 6 2021.

Kinzinger, who is a known Trump critic, spoke before Harris.

“We must put the country first. We must put our country before our party, and like you, I put my country first,” he said. “Democracy knows no party; Democracy is a living, breathing idea that defines us as a nation.

He also called voting for Harris a “conservative choice” and urged other Republicans to vote for her.

Harris was introduced by Bob and Kristina Lange, Pennsylvania farmers, who said they voted for Trump in the past but now argue that Trump doesn’t care about “our Commonwealth and our Constitution.”

The Bucks County rally was the second in a series of “Country Over Party” events, following a rally in Ripon, Wis., known as the GOP headquarters, with former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) .

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