Kamala Harris will campaign with Liz Cheney in the city where the GOP was born: NPR

The city known as the birthplace of the Republican Party is an unlikely campaign stop for a Democratic presidential candidate.

But on Thursday, Vice President Harris will hold an event in Ripon, Wisconsin. – Home of the Small white schoolhousewhere a meeting in 1854 led to the founding of the Republican Party.

Harris will be joined in Ripon by former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who endorsed her last month. Harris' campaign says she will talk about the GOP's history and reach out to Republicans and independent voters who are disillusioned with her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

“I will always put country above party and I will be a president for all Americans,” Harris said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month, noting that more than 200 prominent Republicans had endorsed her campaign.

Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, are staunch conservatives who have said they will vote for Harris because they believe former President Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy.

Liz Cheney (right) chairs a hearing on the January 6 investigation with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Capitol Hill on June 9, 2022. Cheney has said she will vote for Kamala Harris because she believes Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy.

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Liz Cheney became a vocal opponent of Trump after the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th. She voted for it accuse him and later served on a House committee that investigated the attack. She lost her first race in 2022 to a Trump-backed candidate.

Dick Cheney said in one opinion last month that Trump “can never be trusted with power again” because he “tried to steal the last election with lies and violence to stay in power after voters rejected him.”