{"id":32917,"date":"2024-10-02T03:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32917"},"modified":"2024-10-31T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:48:31","slug":"harris-new-ad-hits-trumps-age-in-criticizing-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32917","title":{"rendered":"Harris’ new ad hits Trump’s age in criticizing Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign is launching a new digital ad<\/a> Tuesday slamming the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, as \u201cextremist\u201d and a \u201cdanger to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spot argues Vance, R-Ohio, \u201ccould be a heartbeat away\u201d from the presidency if Donald Trump wins in November, the first time the Democratic ticket has gone after the former president\u2019s age in paid media since she became the Democratic nominee, according to a Harris official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 50-second ad, which will target voters in battleground states, concludes with video of Trump appearing to slur his words at an event and then a Fox News host saying, \u201cThe former president, he\u2019s been off his game.\u201d It is the first time the Harris campaign has used such clips in any of its ads, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Age was a dominant campaign issue when President Joe Biden, 81, was still a candidate. Trump is 78 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harris campaign video comes just hours before her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is set to face off against Vance in their vice presidential debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It features Vance\u2019s own words, including when he said: \u201cI certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u201d; comments he made on a podcast when he was running for the Senate in 2022; and \u201cWe really need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,\u201d a comment he made about the loss of cultural institutions by conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not just weird or dangerous. He could be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office,\u201d the narrator says toward the end of the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout, there are images of Project 2025, a conservative think tank\u2019s blueprint for a second Trump term, in an attempt to closely link Vance to it. Republicans, including Trump and Vance, have tried to distance themselves from the plan, despite the ties between the authors and allies of both candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe American people have made it clear: they don\u2019t like JD Vance, his plans to ban abortion nationwide, or his extreme Project 2025 views,\u201d Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika told NBC News in a statement. \u201cDebate day will be yet another reminder to voters about the stakes of this election, and a stark warning that a victory for Donald Trump could place Vance, America\u2019s least favorite extremist, just a heartbeat away from the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign is launching a new digital ad Tuesday slamming the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, as \u201cextremist\u201d and a \u201cdanger to our democracy.\u201d The spot argues Vance, R-Ohio, \u201ccould be a heartbeat away\u201d from the presidency if Donald Trump wins in November, the first time the Democratic ticket has gone after the former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30653,7747,3719,2302,1230,2488],"class_list":["post-32917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-advertisement","tag-age","tag-bashing","tag-harris","tag-trump","tag-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32919,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions\/32919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}