华盛顿-副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的周日的竞选活动推出了“共和党支持哈里斯”，因为她希望赢得共和党选民的支持唐纳德·特朗普的候选资格。
根据哈里斯团队的说法，该计划将是“竞选中的竞选”，利用知名共和党人激活他们的网络，特别强调支持前联合国大使妮基·黑利的初选选民。该项目将于本周在亚利桑那州、北卡罗来纳州和宾夕法尼亚州启动。竞选团队说，支持哈里斯的共和党人也将在下周与副总统和她即将提名的竞选伙伴一起出现在集会上。
在正式宣布之前，哈里斯竞选团队首先与美联社分享了该计划的细节。
她的团队正试图为共和党选民创建一个“许可结构”，否则他们将很难投票给哈里斯。这一努力将在很大程度上依赖于共和党与共和党选民之间的接触，他们相信，让一名共和党人投票给哈里斯的最佳方式是直接听取另一名做出同样选择的共和党人的意见。
哈里斯的共和党外联全国主任奥斯汀·韦瑟福德(Austin Weatherford)表示，特朗普的“极端主义对数百万不再相信唐纳德·特朗普的政党代表他们的价值观的共和党人有害”，并将在11月再次投票反对他。他说，竞选活动将“每天出现并花时间赢得共和党人的投票，这些人相信将国家置于政党之上，并知道每个美国人都应该有一个保护他们自由的总统和一个将美国人民的最佳利益置于自己利益之上的总司令。”
韦瑟福德曾是伊利诺伊州前众议员亚当·金辛格的幕僚长。，谁有赞同在乔·拜登总统对特朗普的灾难性辩论表现之前的拜登-哈里斯组合。金辛格支持哈里斯再次作为发射的一部分。
“作为一名自豪的保守派，我从未想过我会支持民主党人竞选总统，”他在一份声明中说。“但是，我知道副总统哈里斯将捍卫我们的民主，并确保唐纳德·特朗普永远不会回到白宫。”
金辛格作为参与调查的众议院委员会的两名共和党人之一，建立了一个全国性的形象2021年1月6日，对国会大厦的袭击。该委员会强调了特朗普在致命袭击之前和期间的一些违规行为，因为国会试图证明拜登在2020年大选中战胜特朗普的结果。
特朗普几乎没有努力争取温和的共和党选民周六，共和党人批评了乔治亚州州长布莱恩·坎普他拒绝了特朗普在战场州推翻2020年大选的企图。
上个月，当拜登仍然名列榜首时，竞选活动以一个广告突显特朗普前员工对他们前任老板的批评。另一则广告强调了特朗普对海莉的经常性人身攻击，包括他对她的主要昵称是“鸟人”，并暗示“她不是总统的木材”。
成千上万的注册共和党人在初选中投票给海莉，即使她结束了对2024年共和党提名的争夺，特朗普几乎在每场比赛中都击败了她。
海莉在五月宣布她会投票给特朗普并出现在上个月的共和党全国代表大会上。
哈里斯竞选团队的努力包括前州长。马萨诸塞州的比尔·维尔德和新泽西州的克里斯蒂娜·托德·惠特曼，前国防部长查克·哈格尔，前交通部长雷·拉胡德，以及16名前共和党国会议员，包括伊利诺伊州的金辛格和众议员乔·沃尔什以及纽约州的苏珊·莫利纳里。这些人过去都是特朗普的著名批评者。
前特朗普新闻秘书斯蒂芬妮·格里沙姆也支持哈里斯。
Grisham在一份声明中说:“我可能不同意副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的所有观点，但我知道她将为我们的自由而战，保护我们的民主，并在世界舞台上代表美国的荣誉和尊严。”
VP campaign launches 'Republicans for Harris' in push to win over GOP voters
WASHINGTON --Vice PresidentKamala Harris'campaign on Sunday was launching “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off byDonald Trump'scandidacy.
The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris' team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week, the campaign said.
The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement.
Her team is trying to create “a permission structure” for GOP voters who would otherwise have a difficult time voting for Harris. The effort will rely heavily on Republican-to-Republican voter contact, with the belief that the best way to get a Republican to vote for Harris is to hear directly from another Republican making the same choice.
Trump's "extremism is toxic to the millions of Republicans who no longer believe the party of Donald Trump represents their values" and will vote against him again in November, said Harris' national director of Republican outreach, Austin Weatherford. He said the campaign would be "showing up and taking the time every single day to earn the vote of Republicans who believe in putting country over party and know that every American deserves a president who will protect their freedoms and a commander in chief who will put the best interests of the American people above their own.”
Weatherford is a onetime chief of staff to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who hadendorsedthe Biden-Harris ticket before President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump. Kinzinger is backing Harris once more as part of the launch.
“As a proud conservative, I never thought I’d be endorsing a Democrat for President," he said in a statement. “But, I know Vice President Harris will defend our democracy and ensure Donald Trump never returns to the White House.”
Kinzinger developed a national profile as one of two Republicans on the House committee that investigatedthe Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The committee highlighted a number of Trump’s transgressions before and during the deadly attack as Congress tried to certify the results of the 2020 election that Biden won over Trump.
Trump has done little to try to win over moderate Republican voters andon Saturday criticized anew Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who rebuffed Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election in the battleground state.
Last month, when Biden was still at the top of the ticket, the campaign went out with anadhighlighting former Trump staffers' criticism of their onetime boss. A separate ad highlighted Trump’s often-personal attacks against Haley, including his primary nickname of her as “birdbrain” and suggestion that “she’s not presidential timber.”
Hundreds of thousands of registered Republicans voted in primaries for Haley even after she ended her bid for the 2024 Republican nomination and as Trump trounced her in almost every contest.
Haley in May announced she wouldvote for Trumpand appeared at last month's Republican National Convention.
The Harris campaign's effort includes former Govs. Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and 16 former Republican members of Congress, including Kinzinger and Reps. Joe Walsh of Illinois and Susan Molinari of New York. All have been notable critics of Trump in the past.
Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham is also endorsing Harris.
“I might not agree with Vice President Kamala Harris on everything, but I know that she will fight for our freedom, protect our democracy and represent America with honor and dignity on the world stage," Grisham said in a statement.
