The Regime Media takes delight in exhibiting recently conquered conservatives as role models for others to emulate. Such was the case during Adam Kinzinger’s tearful heyday, but the Regime now has a bigger prize: former Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
As part of her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, Cheney is touring the country in hopes of wrangling disaffected conservatives over to Harris at events festooned with imagery meant to evoke Reaganite nostalgia. But such conversions require an abandonment of prior deeply-held beliefs. Such is the case with Cheney and abortion, which the networks gleefully featured.
Watch as CBS’s Nancy Cordes highlights Cheney’s battlefield conversion and subsequent ditching of the unborn in furtherance of “conserving conservatism”:
NANCY CORDES: Today, Harris and Cheney even found some common ground on abortion.
LIZ CHENEY: I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what's going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need. That's not sustainable for us as a country, and it has to change.
NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell also covered Cheney’s remarks on abortion but chose to summarize them rather than air them:
KELLY O’DONNELL: Joined on the trail by former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who said she believes many women who object to abortion are also worried about consequences for women's health care from strict state abortion laws.
LIZ CHENEY: That's not sustainable for us as a country. And it has to change.
The record will reflect that Cheney held an “A “rating from SBA Pro-Life. In 2018, while receiving the endorsements of National Right to Life and the List, Cheney said:
Two years ago, I made a promise to the voters of Wyoming that in Congress I would fight for the sanctity of every human life, including the unborn. We must fight for the most vulnerable among us and never forget that families, not our government, are the fundamental building block of society. I’m proud to have earned the endorsements of National Right to Life and Susan B. Anthony’s List for my work in support of legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and prevent taxpayer money from funding abortion. As a member of the House Committee on Rules, I also manage every rule on the floor of the U.S. House having to do with pro-life legislation. That included the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protect Act, a bill prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks.
That's a long way from whining about Dobbs.
These “Country Over Party” town halls occupied much of today’s pillow-soft coverage of the Harris campaign with two weeks to go until Election Day, seeking to cast her as magnanimous and welcoming towards any Republicans who, like Cheney, are willing to offer some of their most deeply held beliefs upon the altar of Regime acceptance.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective network newscasts on Monday, October 22nd, 2024:
CBS EVENING NEWS
10/21/24
6:34 PM
NORAH O’DONNELL: We want to turn now to the Harris campaign. Every vote counts and the clock is ticking so the Vice President is reaching out to Republican battleground voters, with some noticeable help. Here is CBS's Nancy Cordes.
NANCY CORDES: Vice President Harris and Republican Liz Cheney disagree on most policies but on one thing, they are in lockstep.
LIZ CHENEY: The choice here is absolutely clear in terms of the necessity of supporting Vice President Harris.
CORDES: They appeared together in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Detroit today, with another stop tonight outside Milwaukee. Their goal? To try to win over some of the moderate Republicans who went for Nikki Haley over Donald Trump in the primaries.
CHENEY: Think about how dangerous and damaging it is to have someone who is totally erratic, totally erratic, completely unstable.
CORDES: Even a few crossover votes could make a difference here in Wisconsin, where the latest CBS News battleground tracker shows the race dead even.
Is it your sense that there are any folks who are still persuadable at this point?
DAN BIESER: Maybe a minimal, minimal- minimal group. But, I’d like to think so.
CORDES: Dan Bieser is a chocolate maker. He has a shop in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He's a longtime Harris supporter, and a newer Cheney fan.
BIESER: I think it's just a reminder that we all want to work together, that it's not just one side versus the other.
CORDES: Today, Harris and Cheney even found some common ground on abortion.
CHENEY: I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what's going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need. That's not sustainable for us as a country, and it has to change.
CORDES: Early voting gets underway here in Wisconsin tomorrow, and so the Harris campaign’s get out the vote effort has kicked into high gear. It helps that they've got a lot of money to work with. Harris' fund-raising haul in September, Norah, was more than three times the size of Trump’s.
O’DONNELL: Those polls neck and neck. Nancy Cordes, thank you so much.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
10/21/24
6:35 PM
LESTER HOLT: And tonight, Vice President Harris is going after Republican voters in three critical states who might be open to a candidate other than former President Trump. Kelly O'Donnell is on the trail with the Vice President.
KELLY O’DONNELL: A battleground trio today. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and here in Wisconsin…
KAMALA HARRIS: I ask for your vote.
O’DONNELL: …where Vice President Harris is looking for “red bricks” to fortify the Democrats' “Blue Wall” in a tight race.
HARRIS: Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of him being president of the United States are brutally serious.
O’DONNELL: Joined on the trail by former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who said she believes many women who object to abortion are also worried about consequences for women's health care from strict state abortion laws.
LIZ CHENEY: That's not sustainable for us as a country. And it has to change.
O’DONNELL: Cheney, a fierce Trump critic who lost her Wyoming primary in a landslide, now urging Republican and independent voters to back Harris.
CHENEY: We're going to reject the kind of vile vitriol that we've seen from Donald Trump. We're going to reject the misogyny that we've seen from Donald Trump and JD Vance.
O’DONNELL: Former President Trump's raw language included a new and profane attack on Harris Saturday.
DONALD TRUMP: You're a shit Vice President. The worst. You're the worst Vice President. Kamala, you're fired. Get the hell out of here, you're fired.
KAMALA HARRIS: The American people deserve so much better.
O’DONNELL: Harris responded Sunday.
HARRIS: What you see in my opponent, a former President of the United States, really is -- it demeans the office.
O’DONNELL: While today's events are framed around the seriousness of what is at stake, Harris pulled in star power over the weekend. Lizzo, Usher, and Stevie Wonder, who marked Harris's 60th birthday Sunday.
STEVIE WONDER PLUS CHURCH CHOIR: ♪♪ Happy Birthday to Ya ♪♪
O’DONNELL: Back here in Wisconsin, the Harris team points out that in dependably Republican Waukesha County, 9,000 voters still chose Nikki Haley in the GOP primary over Mr. Trump, even after Haley exited the race. Haley has since endorsed Trump. And Trump allies like Lindsey Graham are calling Republicans home away from Harris.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: To every Republican supporting her, what the hell are you doing? You're supporting the most radical nominee in the history of American politics.
HOLT: And Kelly, you have some new reporting on how the Harris campaign sees this dead-heat race.
O’DONNELL: Lester, Harris campaign officials tell me they recognize that many Democrats are worried that it remains so tight across all the battleground states, but they argue they built their operation knowing that they would need a strong turnout among Democratic base voters, as well as this strategic appeal to disaffected Republicans. Lester.
HOLT: All right, Kelly. Thank you.
