Harris goads Trump with ad of former officials warning of a second Trump term ahead of debate
Good morning US politics readers. The Harris campaign is set to air a new TV ad featuring former officials in Donald’s Trump administration warning about the threat he poses to the country, in what looks like an attempt to goad the former president ahead of tomorrow’s debate.
The minute-long spot, entitled “The Best People”, will run on Fox News as well as in Trump’s home town of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Philadelphia on Tuesday to coincide with the presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris. It will continue to play throughout the week, according to the Harris campaign.
The ad features Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, former defense secretary Mark Esper, former national security adviser John Bolton and retired Gen Mark Milley, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The ad reads:
Take it from the people who knew him best: Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We can’t let him lead our country again.
The ad came after endorsements by some high-profile Republicans for Harris last week, including the former vice-president Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, a former representative of Wyoming, as well as Jim McCain, the son of the late senator and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain.
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Kamala Harris is in Pittsburgh preparing for her debate tomorrow. She is expected to travel to Philadelphia in the late afternoon.
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Congress is back. The House rules committee is set to take up Speaker Mike Johnson’s six-month stopgap funding bill, which would extend government funding through 28 March.
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Joe Biden will be in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon for 9/11 events this week. He will welcome the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, to the White House on Friday.
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The Harris campaign said the new ad would run as part of their $370m digital and television buy.
A statement by Harris-Walz principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks reads:
This ad will remind Fox News viewers, perhaps even a certain defeated former president himself, about how Trump’s own national security team can’t stomach him anymore because of how he’d put the country at risk. To every American who understands the threat that Donald Trump poses, who cares about upholding the Constitution, who believes in the rule of law, and who knows America is stronger when it leads, there’s a home for you in Vice President Harris’ campaign.
“In 2016, Donald Trump said he would choose only the best people to work in his White House.,” the Harris campaign’s new ad reads.
Now, those people have a warning for America: Trump is not fit to be president again.
The ad includes clips from the former Republican vice-president, Mike Pence, saying that he would not be endorsing Trump in 2024, and from the former defense secretary, Mark Esper, warning that another Trump presidency “places our service members at risk, places our nation’s security at risk.”
Pence, Esper and Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who is also featured in the Harris campaign’s ad, have said they will not vote for Trump.
According to the Washington Post, just over of Trump’s former cabinet supports his comeback campaign.
Harris goads Trump with ad of former officials warning of a second Trump term ahead of debate
Good morning US politics readers. The Harris campaign is set to air a new TV ad featuring former officials in Donald’s Trump administration warning about the threat he poses to the country, in what looks like an attempt to goad the former president ahead of tomorrow’s debate.
The minute-long spot, entitled “The Best People”, will run on Fox News as well as in Trump’s home town of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Philadelphia on Tuesday to coincide with the presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris. It will continue to play throughout the week, according to the Harris campaign.
The ad features Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, former defense secretary Mark Esper, former national security adviser John Bolton and retired Gen Mark Milley, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The ad reads:
Take it from the people who knew him best: Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We can’t let him lead our country again.
The ad came after endorsements by some high-profile Republicans for Harris last week, including the former vice-president Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, a former representative of Wyoming, as well as Jim McCain, the son of the late senator and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain.
Here’s what else we’re watching:
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Kamala Harris is in Pittsburgh preparing for her debate tomorrow. She is expected to travel to Philadelphia in the late afternoon.
-
Congress is back. The House rules committee is set to take up Speaker Mike Johnson’s six-month stopgap funding bill, which would extend government funding through 28 March.
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Joe Biden will be in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon for 9/11 events this week. He will welcome the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, to the White House on Friday.
