Pro-Trump political action committee MAGA Inc. released its first attack ad focusing on Vice President Kamala Harris after President Biden announced that he will not be seeking re-election and endorsed his vice president.“Kamala was in on it,” a narrator begins over a clip of Harris clapping for Biden’s State of the Union address. “She covered up Joe’s obvious mental decline.”
The ad links to a statement from Vice President Harris made in the aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, which described significant evidence of the president’s mental decline. “The way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous,” Harris said regarding the report.
The ad then features another quote from Harris stating, “Our president is in good shape and good health,” overlaid with images of the president falling on stage. The text carefully connects the vice president to President Biden’s track record, emphasizing the skyrocketing inflation and record-breaking illegal immigration numbers, supported by quotes from Harris.
“But Kamala knew Joe couldn’t do the job, so she did it. Look what she got done; a border invasion, runaway inflation, the American dream, dead,” the narrator continues. “They know Kamala owns this failed record.”
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Harris has long been seen as the top candidate to replace Biden because she is the only one who can utilize the campaign’s war chest due to campaign finance laws. Harris’s appearance as the Democratic nominee in November is not guaranteed, as the party may opt for an open convention. It is unclear how feasible this would be, with just five months until election day and limited time for the party to make a decision.
Meanwhile, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) quickly became a national figure after being selected as the vice-presidential candidate for Donald Trump, discussing his difficult beginnings and supporting his party during the recent Republican National Convention. After his address, Vice President Harris criticized Vance, arguing that his individual story overshadowed the greater policy effects of a Trump-Vance government.
“It was compelling. It’s a compelling story. But it’s not the full story,” Harris claimed on Wednesday. “Frankly, what is very telling is what he did not talk about on that stage. He did not talk about Project 2025, the 900-page blueprint for a second term. He did not talk about it because their plans are extreme, and they are divisive.”
This week, Tulsi Gabbard, former Hawaii Democratic congresswoman turned Independent, criticized Harris after the VP issued a stern warning about Vance’s allegiance, claiming he would prioritize loyalty to Trump over the country. “The audacity that she has to say this is off the charts,” Gabbard said on X. “She’s talking about J.D. Vance, someone who enlisted in the Marine Corps after the terrorist attack on 9-11, someone who deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year that I was there during the height of that war, putting his own life on the line in service to our country.”
“Was Kamala Harris willing to put her own life on the line in service to our country at any time in the past? Is she now? No. Kamala Harris is driven by her own political ambition. She’s a self-serving politician who should not be in office,” Gabbard added.
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Tulsi Gabbard destroys the feckless and talentless Kamala Harris after the VP was critical of Sen. J.D. Vance’s life story.
Harris has all the class, grace, and style of a cruise missile strike. pic.twitter.com/lkJr1B53Ln
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