Three of a kind — former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney tells Wisconsin to reject Donald Trump, Eric Hovde and Derrick Van Orden – WisPolitics

MADISON, Wis. — With Donald Trump making increasingly desperate pleas for attention in Wisconsin, his extremist lackeys are standing with him—and driving their own voters away. At the Cap Times Idea Fest, former Republican representative Liz Cheney, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris along with her father, Dick Cheney,said if she were a Wisconsin resident, she wouldn’t vote for either Eric Hovde or Derrick Van Orden.

Republicans are fleeing right-wing extremism and election deniers in droves, and in the race to undermine democracy in Wisconsin, Derrick Van Orden and Eric Hovde are leading the charge. Derrick Van Orden crossed police lines on January 6th—and later defended his presence at the Capitol—and Eric Hovde peddled lies about drop box voting and suggested nursing home residents are not “at a point” to vote.

“Donald Trump, Eric Hovde and Derrick Van Orden all have two things in common—a complete disregard for democracy and Republicans who won’t vote for them,” says Democratic Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Joe Oslund. “Wisconsinites know freedom is on the line at the ballot box and in November, voters will make sure this is the last we see of Trump and his election-denying band of cronies.”

Here’s a reminder of how Derrick Van Orden, Eric Hovde, and Donald Trump have peddled conspiracy theories and attacked our democracy:

• Derrick Van Orden attended, and later lied about having been present at, the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Van Orden used leftover campaign cash to fund his travel to the insurrection.
• Despite having no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Van Orden said he believed there “was a tremendous amount of voter fraud in this election.”
• Derrick Van Orden continued to support efforts to overturn election results after the insurrection, even writing an op-ed defending his attendance at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6th.
• Eric Hovde called for 24 hour drop box monitoring in Madison, while spreading unfounded and false election conspiracy theories.
• Eric Hovde suggested people in nursing homes should not be allowed to vote.
• Donald Trump falsely claimed there were “irregularities” with Wisconsin’s presidential election ballots to trust the outcome but never produced legitimate evidence to support the accusation.
• Two Trump attorneys and ten fake electors in Wisconsin were prosecuted over their involvement in a scheme to overturn the 2020 election.
• Donald Trump also falsely claimed he won Wisconsin in 2020 at a Green Bay rally, saying “we won this state by a lot. It came out that we won this,” despite losing.