Formerly GOP mayor in reliably red Wisconsin county endorses Harris
The mayor of Waukesha, the seat of a reliably Republican county outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Wednesday — the first time the formerly Republican city leader is supporting a Democrat for commander in chief, the campaign said.
The mayor of Waukesha, the seat of a reliably Republican county outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Wednesday — the first time the formerly Republican city leader is supporting a Democrat for commander in chief, the campaign said.
“It would be easier for me to stay quiet and vote my conscience privately, but the stakes of this election are so important that I feel compelled to share publicly that I am voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and I encourage other Wisconsinites who care about our country to do the same,” Reilly said in a statement circulated by the Harris campaign.
Reilly added that former President Donald Trump poses “a unique danger to American democracy,” and a second term “would be even more dangerous than the first because there would be no guardrails.”
“We can’t allow him to sit in the Oval Office again,” he said.
Milwaukee’s Fox News affiliate reported the mayor’s endorsement of Harris yesterday, quoting him as saying he left the Republican Party after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, but still often votes Republican.
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