During a recent appearance on The Daily Show, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz touted the broad coalition supporting him and his running mate, Kamala Harris. “Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift . . . ”

It’s the kind of reference to former Vice President Cheney that Harris, Walz, and their surrogates have made many times throughout their campaign. Stewart, to his credit, seemed to find it painful. “What country,” he asked, “did Taylor Swift get us to invade?”

Walz laughed it off, assuring him that Harris didn’t plan to have a Cheney-style foreign policy. He answered Stewart’s question about whether “we really have to do” the “Cheney thing” by speculating that the endorsements from the former vice president and his daughter Liz Cheney gave moderate Republicans and libertarians “permission” to “cross over.”