{"id":1720738,"date":"2022-11-02T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720738"},"modified":"2022-11-02T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T04:03:33","slug":"first-time-im-campaigning-for-a-democrat-liz-cheney-hits-the-trail-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-time-im-campaigning-for-a-democrat-liz-cheney-hits-the-trail-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018First Time I\u2019m Campaigning For A Democrat\u2019: Liz Cheney Hits The Trail In Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-time-im-campaigning-for-a-democrat-liz-cheney-hits-the-trail-in-michigan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-kari-lake-trolls-liz-cheney-with-savage-thank-you-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-WY) traveled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a> Tuesday night to stump for a Democrat for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney joined Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in East Lansing, encouraging Michiganders to vote for the Democrat in next Tuesday\u2019s election. Slotkin, the incumbent, is in a tight race to represent the state\u2019s 7th district with Republican State Senator Tom Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to ensure this revival of our republic, we have to walk away from politics as usual,\u201d Cheney said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/michigan\/2022\/11\/02\/cheney-tells-slotkin-crowd-to-walk-away-from-politics-as-usual\/69611435007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Detroit News, adding. \u201cIf the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then we\u2019re going to vote for the people in the other party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Slotkin welcomed her to Michigan, Cheney told the crowd of about 500, \u201cThis is, by the way, the first time I\u2019m campaigning for a Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican congresswoman who garnered attention as the vice chair of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot narrowed her focus on restoring a republic she believes has been damaged by many in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chips are down for us. This is our time of testing. Not a single one of us in this room and not a single one of us across this country can be a bystander. We all must stand and defend this republic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/01\/politics\/liz-cheney-elissa-slotkin-2022-midterms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin rehashed Cheney\u2019s concern for the state of American politics, saying that the biggest issue the two agree on is \u201cpreserving American democracy.\u201d Barrett railed against Cheney and Slotkin, calling them \u201cwar-hawks.\u201d The Michigan Republican was endorsed by Harriet Hageman who defeated Cheney in Wyoming\u2019s Republican primary in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are sick and tired of these establishment forces hanging together, no matter what,\u201d Barrett said. \u201cThe phony idea that Elissa Slotkin and Liz Cheney are now part of some non-partisan coalition together \u2013 the only thing they brought us is the misery we\u2019re all feeling right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have become accustomed to Cheney\u2019s new goal of opposing conservatives she deems dangerous to democracy. Earlier on Tuesday, Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3714527-liz-cheney-endorses-democrat-tim-ryan-in-ohio-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) over Republican candidate J.D. Vance in Ohio\u2019s Senate race, and last week, the congresswoman was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-kari-lake-trolls-liz-cheney-with-savage-thank-you-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trolled<\/a> by Arizona gubernatorial Kari Lake after Cheney made an ad urging Arizonans not to vote for the confident Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your generous in-kind contribution to my campaign,\u201d Lake wrote in a letter. \u201cYour recent television ad urging Arizonans not to vote for me is doing just the opposite. Our campaign donations are skyrocketing and our website nearly crashed from traffic as people rushed to learn more about my plan to put Arizona first and join our historic political movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) traveled to Michigan Tuesday night to stump for a Democrat for the first time. Cheney joined Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in East Lansing, encouraging Michiganders to vote for the Democrat in next Tuesday\u2019s election. Slotkin, the incumbent, is in a tight race to represent the state\u2019s 7th district with Republican State &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1720741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}