Harris campaign touts border record in new ad

Vice President Harris’s campaign is touting her record on immigration policy in an ad arguing she will be tough on the hot-button issue of the southern border.

The 30-second ad, titled “Tougher,” highlights the vice president’s work as a prosecutor in California before she became a senator.

“Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border,” the ad reads.

It adds that “as vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.”

“Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris.”

The Harris campaign has tried to fend off attacks from former President Trump’s campaign on the border, which the Republicans are leaning into keeping a major issue ahead of November’s election.

“Kamala Harris was put in sole charge of the Border. It quickly became the WORST AND MOST DANGEROUS BORDER IN HISTORY. As President, Harris will completely DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!” Trump said in a Truth Social post late Sunday.

The new Harris ad will run in Arizona and Nevada, the campaign said in a memo, adding that the vice president will continue to hit Trump for his role in the failure of a border deal negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators.

“She and Governor Walz are campaigning on a promise to bring back the deal if elected. To double down on their message, our campaign is highlighting her fight to secure the border in a new ad running in both states,” the campaign said.

Last week, the Trump campaign released its first ad targeting Harris on her role in the Biden administration addressing migration to the U.S. border. And House Republicans recently approved a resolution that condemned Harris as the Biden administration’s “border czar” after she was tasked in 2021 with addressing the root causes of migration.