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A brand new advert from the Harris marketing campaign branding Trump “harmful” options feedback from a number of former prime Trump officers, together with former Vice President Mike Pence.
The advert, titled “The Finest Folks,” seeks to re-examine previous criticism of Trump — from former prime officers he as soon as employed. It’ll air the identical day as ABC’s presidential debate on Tuesday and is scheduled to air on a number of Fox associates throughout the nation.
“Anybody who places themselves above the Structure ought to by no means be president of the USA,” Pence stated in August 2023, after former President Donald Trump was charged with allegedly interfering within the 2020 election. Harris’ marketing campaign used the remark in its new advert, in addition to a second remark Pence made on Fox Information about six months in the past, during which he stated he wouldn’t help Trump for president.
“Take it from the individuals who knew him greatest,” says a narrator within the advert.
However regardless of the previous vp’s cameo appearances criticizing Trump within the new advert, his determination to not endorse Trump doesn’t quantity to an endorsement of Kamala Harris, advised a spokesperson for Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit lately based by Pence. The spokesperson identified to Fox Information Digital to a particular remark from Pence which he held final month in Atlanta, Georgia, throughout which Pence said emphatically: “I might by no means vote for Kamala Harris to be president of the USA, or Tim Walz to be her operating mate.”
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Vice President Mike Pence and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz spoke to the press after Pence visited 3M’s headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota. ((Photograph by Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune by way of Getty Photos))
Harris’ new marketing campaign advert additionally featured statements from a yr in the past by former Trump Protection Secretary Mark Esper.
Esper’s feedback within the advert got here in a June 2023 interview with CNN, during which he was requested whether or not Trump could possibly be “trusted” with the nation’s secrets and techniques in gentle of criticism over his dealing with of categorised paperwork after leaving the White Home. “No,” Esper stated. “It is simply irresponsible conduct that places our navy in danger, places our nationwide safety in danger.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Esper’s representatives to ask if he was conscious of his look within the advert, however didn’t obtain a response.
In the meantime, Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton and Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Gen. Mark Milley, additionally appeared within the Harris marketing campaign’s new advert. Bolton and Milley each have a observe file as outspoken critics of Trump.
Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
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“Donald Trump goes to do loads of harm,” Bolton says within the advert. “All he cares about is Donald Trump.”
Bolton’s feedback highlighted within the advert are from an interview on CNN in October 2023 and final week, respectively.
The advert ended with remarks Milley made throughout his remaining speech because the nation’s prime navy basic in September 2023. “We do not take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator,” Milley says within the advert. “And we do not take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to representatives for Bolton and Milley for remark, however had not obtained a response by the point of publication.
President Joe Biden (R) shakes fingers with Mark Milley, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, throughout an Armed Forces farewell occasion at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Corridor in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday. (Nathan Howard/Sipa/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s nationwide marketing campaign spokesperson, criticized the brand new advert, calling it an try and “distract” from how “dangerously liberal (Harris) is.”
“The Kamala marketing campaign is utilizing the phrases of some disgruntled losers as a result of they’re shedding within the polls to attempt to distract from the truth that Kamala is shedding the help of average Democrats who notice how dangerously liberal she is,” Leavitt stated Monday.
Mike Pence Featured in Harris Camp Advert Criticizing Trump as ‘Harmful’
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