All of the instances ex-GOP Rep. Liz Cheney ripped ‘radical’ Kamala Harris earlier than endorsement

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney ripped Vice President Kamala Harris for years — even after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that prompted Cheney’s cut up with the Republican Get together — as a “radical liberal” who “sounds similar to Karl Marx.”

Cheney, who endorsed Harris final month and can marketing campaign along with her Thursday, was a constant critic of the previous California Democratic senator and later vp, in keeping with a evaluate of her previous public statements and social media postings.

In April 2019, the Wyoming Republican mocked Harris — then a candidate for the Democratic nomination — for saying in a CNN city corridor that America ought to have a “dialog” about whether or not convicted felons needs to be permitted to vote.

The query, posed by then-CNN anchor Don Lemon, was in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) help for felon enfranchisement as much as and together with Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

“Coming quickly: ⁦@KamalaHarris and ⁦@BernieSanders launch their ‘Absentee ballots for al Qaeda’ program,” Cheney (R-Wyo.), then the Home GOP convention chair, zinged on Twitter, now X, after the televised city corridor.

When Joe Biden tapped Harris to function his working mate in August 2020, Cheney remained a stalwart opponent.

“Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would elevate taxes, take away weapons & medical health insurance, and explode the dimensions and energy of the federal gov’t,” the Wyoming Republican tweeted that month. “She desires to recreate America within the picture of what’s taking place on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We gained’t give her the prospect.”

In an Aug. 12, 2020, interview on Fox Information, Cheney known as Biden’s decide of Harris “shocking,” contemplating her far-left voting report within the Senate.

“Joe Biden has actually been attempting to painting himself because the reasonable on this race, as any person who’s centrist, and in a single fell swoop right here he has put any person on the ticket whose voting report within the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” she stated on “America’s Newsroom.”

“The American persons are going to have a look at the substance of this. They’re going to have a look at what she stood for prior to now, they’re going to have a look at what she stated throughout the major election.”

Cheney told a Wyoming NBC affiliate in one other August interview that the decide “tells us one thing about Joe Biden: It tells us that he’s not likely main his occasion; he’s not likely in cost.”

On the US Capitol steps in September 2020, Cheney additionally denounced Harris in a speech warning the stakes of the presidential election.

“Each single day, the Democrats inform us what they might do as Kamala Harris put it yesterday, ‘A Harris Administration with Joe Biden,’” she said. “They’d defund our police, dismantle our freedom, destroy our historical past and abandon our founding values.”

By November 2020, Cheney was additionally hitting Harris for selling an “fairness”-based method to governance.

“Sounds similar to Karl Marx,” she tweeted in response to a video posted by Harris urging Individuals to forgo pursuing equality of alternative for fairness of outcomes in all features of society.

“A century of historical past has proven the place that path leads. All of us embrace equal alternative, however government-enforced equality of outcomes is Marxism,” Cheney added.

Even after Jan. 6, the Home Republican convention chairwoman attacked Harris for being absent on the US border disaster.

“The president has stated Vice President Harris is answerable for the border. Vp Harris stated she was not answerable for the border,” Cheney stated in a Capitol Hill press convention that April.

“No person appears to be in cost. She hasn’t been there. And we’ve a humanitarian and nationwide safety disaster and well being disaster unfolding there.”

Her predictions about Harris proved true, because the vp ascended to the highest of the 2024 Democratic ticket this previous July, prompting scrutiny of her earlier help for left-wing coverage stances resembling banning fracking, eliminating private health insurance, eradicating “assets” from police departments and decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

However that also didn’t cease Cheney from endorsing Harris.

“I don’t imagine that we’ve the posh of writing in candidates’ names, significantly in swing states,” she stated in a video message posted on X. “As a conservative, as somebody who believes in and cares in regards to the Structure, I’ve thought deeply about this. Due to the hazard that Donald Trump poses, not solely am I not voting for Donald Trump, however I can be voting for Kamala Harris.”

Cheney will marketing campaign with Harris in Ripon, Wis., the birthplace of the Republican Get together, in a battleground state the place the Democratic nominee at the moment leads by lower than a share level, per the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Neither Cheney nor the Harris marketing campaign instantly responded to a request for remark.