The Trump campaign on Tuesday launched a new 30-second ad harshly criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris over illegal immigration and her role as the Biden administration's "Border Czar," The Hill reported.
"This is America's border czar. And she's failed us," the narrator states in the ad, which displays images and news coverage of violent crime allegedly carried out by migrants and will air in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
The ad, whose total buy is approximately $12 million, closes with a clip from an interview three years ago in which Harris defended not visiting the southern border by pointing out that she had also not visited Europe, with the ad concluding, "Kamala Harris: Failed, weak, dangerously liberal."
This marks the first TV ad by the Trump campaign since President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and Harris became the presumptive Democrat nominee.
The Trump campaign and the GOP have attacked Harris over her work on immigration during the Biden administration, attempting to link her to the vast increase in illegal immigration at the southern border. Last week, the House approved a bipartisan resolution that condemned the Biden administration and Harris, its border czar, for their failure to secure the border.
The Harris campaign countered the ad by pointing out it was Trump earlier this year who lobbied the House against passing a bipartisan border security proposal created in the Senate.
A Harris campaign spokesperson told The Hill that "after killing the toughest border deal in decades, Donald Trump is running on his trademark lies because his own record and 'plans' are extreme and unpopular."
The spokesperson added that "as a former district attorney, attorney general, and now vice president, Kamala Harris has spent her career taking on and prosecuting violent criminals and making our communities safer. She'll do the same as president."
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