Former senior officials who appear in the aggressive ad include former Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, national security adviser John Bolton, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.
“Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence says in a clip from 2021 after the Capitol riots, followed by an interview where he says he will not be endorsing Trump this year.
Milley appears in a clip from a speech last year where he says: “We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.” Bolton adds: “Donald Trump will cause a lot of damage. The only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.”
The attack ad from the Harris campaign features some of Trump’s former officials in his administration (Harris-Walz/YouTube)
Harris shared the ad on social media and said: “Take it from the people who worked for him: Donald Trump is a danger to our troops, our security, and our democracy. He should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States.”
The ad will run on Fox News nationally, in West Palm Beach in Florida — the home of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — and in Philadelphia on Tuesday, when he will face Harris in the debate.
“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,” said Harris-Walz principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.
Harris’s latest ad follows a theme of prominent Republicans who have come out against the former president (Getty Images)
The Republican Voters Against Trump campaign is spending $4.5 million in Pennsylvania , $3 million in Michigan, $2.2 million in Wisconsin, $1.5 million in Arizona and another $375,000 in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District (where a single electoral vote is up for grabs) to show a 30-second spot composed of testimonials from GOP voters who say they’re all voting for Democrat and Vice President Kamala Harris .
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