Endorsements from Republicans and CEOs won’t help Kamala Harris win | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Only a quarter of battleground voters think the country is going the right way. Why is Harris touting the approval of the elite?

Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney's campaign event last week in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican party, was a dramatic component of Harris's ongoing outreach to Republicans. That outreach, begun under President Joe Biden and continuing even more aggressively under Harris, was made clear in an open letter on Thursday in which two dozen Republican former officials and lawmakers in Wisconsin endorsed Harris and her running mate, the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz.

We have plenty of policy disagreements with Vice President Harris," the Republicans wrote. But what we do agree upon is more important. We agree that we cannot afford another four years of the broken promises, election denialism, and chaos of Donald Trump's leadership."