Vice President Harris and her allies are making a last-ditch effort to peel off Republican support from former President Trump in the final days of the election.

Harris rallied with a number of her prominent Republican supporters in battleground Pennsylvania on Thursday, telling the party’s voters “there is a place for you in this campaign.” During the same trip Harris took part in her first sit-down interview with Fox News, a cable network with a sizable right-leaning audience. And Republican Voters Against Trump and the FF PAC launched an eight-figure ad buy hitting the former president in key swing states.

The effort comes as the Trump and Harris campaigns seek to reach out to voters outside of their traditional constituencies in an effort to close the margins and make up for ground lost among other groups.

“They know they are going to disagree [with Harris] on somethings,” said Olivia Troye, a Harris surrogate and former national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, referring to Harris’s GOP supporters. “They are looking at two very different types of personas that could potentially lead our country and the contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could not be any starker.”

Many of Harris’s Republican supporters point to Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results, his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the overturning of Roe v. Wade as reasons for them crossing party lines this November.

Over the past month Harris has escalated her effort to appeal to persuadable Republican voters. Earlier this month, the vice president hit the campaign trail with former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), something that would have seemed far-fetched four years ago. The campaign has also rolled out a number of ads featuring Republicans, including one released last week in Arizona featuring Mesa’s Republican Mayor John Giles. The spot is airing on local broadcasts and cable networks,........

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