Vice President Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs Augusta Regional Airport in Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday. On Thursday she travels to Ripon, Wisconsin, the city known as the birthplace of the Republican Party.

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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, Wisc. – home of the Small white school buildingwhere a meeting in 1854 led to the formation of the Republican Party.

Harris will be joined in Ripon by former Republican Liz Cheney, who endorsed her last month. Harris’ campaign says they will talk about the history of the Republican Party and appeal to Republicans and independent voters disillusioned with her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

“I will always put country before party, and I will be a president for all Americans,” Harris said last month at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., 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 is a danger to American democracy.

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

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Liz Cheney became an outspoken opponent of Trump after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. She voted in favor to take off him and later served on a House committee that investigated the attack. She lost her 2022 primary race to a candidate backed by Trump.

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