Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for President

Yesterday, Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. Mayor Reilly was a longtime Republican who became an independent after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. This is his first endorsement of a Democrat for president.

“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,” said Mayor Shawn Reilly. “Donald Trump poses a unique danger to American democracy – even his own advisors have said that he’s unfit to be President of the United States. 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.”

Mayor Reilly’s endorsement comes in the wake of dozens of high-profile Wisconsin Republicans and hundreds of Republicans across the country endorsing Vice President Harris, putting country over party and rejecting Donald Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda for a second term. Earlier this week, Vice President Harris held an event in Waukesha County alongside former Congresswoman Liz Cheney to make clear there is a home on this campaign for all Americans, no matter their party affiliation.

Trump not only refuses to acknowledge his loss and attempts to overturn the 2020 election – as JD Vance defended in primetime during the vice presidential debate – he  has also suggested the “termination” of the Constitution. Just this week, new reporting highlighted that former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly confirmed Trump said he wished he could have “the kind of generals that Hitler had” and Kelly warned Trump would govern like a dictator if allowed.

Trump has been losing ground in Waukesha and across the WOW counties – historically Republican strongholds – where Nikki Haley received double-digit support in the Wisconsin Republican primary. Waukesha County, the largest of the WOW counties, swung six points to the left from 2016 to 2020 in the general election and it is poised to move the needle further this election.

Watch Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly’s interview on his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris:

On Fox 6 (Fox – Milwaukee):

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