Harris vows to establish a ‘bipartisan council of advisers’ at White House

The news comes weeks after the vice president promised to place a Republican within her Cabinet. Presidents past routinely installed a member of the opposition party within the Cabinet, but both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump eschewed that practice.

Harris’s announcement came during an appearance at a “Republicans for Harris” event in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“I love good ideas, wherever they come from,” Harris told the crowd. “We need a healthy two-party system.”

The vice president added that she expected the aforementioned bipartisan council to “counsel” her on policy.

Most polls show Trump holding onto a razor-thin lead over Harris in Arizona, a 2024 battleground state, and, like on Thursday night, Harris evoked the memory of the late Sen. John McCain, a staunch critic of the former president before his death in 2018, while speaking to the group of gathered Republicans on Friday.

“John McCain stood on principle,” she stated. “He stood on a belief in the importance of patriotism, of sacrifice, of what we stand for as a country.”

“The people of this state have always shown extraordinary courage,” Harris continued. “We share not only a concern but a commitment to our country about what is most important.”

Army 1st Lt. Jim McCain, one of the late senator’s children, campaigned with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Harris’s running mate, earlier this week.

Meghan McCain, a former Fox News and ABC TV personality and Jim McCain’s older sister, has also been a vocal critic of Trump but declined to endorse Harris this cycle.

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“For all of you tweeting at me — yes, I am over here the last Republican in the family. Albeit, it feels strange, everything is okay. There is no family drama,” she wrote on X Thursday morning. “I won’t endorse Harris (or Trump) because I am still a principled conservative, like my Dad was his entire life.”