RIPON, Wis. ― Vice President Kamala Harris made an unlikely appearance with an unlikely surrogate, showing how former President Donald Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election have scrambled traditional political alliances.
Appearing alongside former Rep. Liz Cheney, once the third-highest ranking House Republican and the daughter of a man regularly viewed as one of liberalism’s biggest enemies two decades ago, Harris tore into Trump as an enemy of the Constitution and rule of law.
“The tragic truth that we are facing in this election for president of the United States is that there is actually an honest question about whether one of the candidates will uphold the oath to the Constitution of the United States,” Harris said.
Cheney, a one-time Trump supporter who broke with him over the Jan. 6 insurrection, and who subsequently helped lead the congressional investigation into Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election, landed similar…