September 9, 2024
On Tuesday, September 10, Kamala Harris’ campaign will drop a new ad starring some of Donald Trump’s former senior administration officials tearing into the man they once served, reports The Daily Beast.
The montage of scathing comments from the Republican nominee’s ex-colleagues-turned-critics comes ahead of the former president’s first debate against Harris in Philadelphia. The ad will air in the city as well as in West Palm Beach—where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located—along with a nationwide rollout on Fox News, according to Politico.
The ad, which is titled “The Best People,” compiles footage of Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
The ad then quotes Pence saying in August 2023: “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should, never be president of the United States.” It also includes a clip of Pence saying in a Fox News interview earlier this year that it should “come as no surprise” that he “will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.”
The ad further features a segment of the speech Milley gave during his last speech as Joint Chiefs chair in September 2023. “We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator,” Milley says. “And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”
“Take it from the people who knew him best,” the narrator says in the Harris’ campaign ad. “Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We can’t let him lead our country again.”
“To every American who understands the threat that Donald Trump poses, who cares about upholding the Constitution, who believes in the rule of law, and who knows America is stronger when it leads, there’s a home for you in Vice President Harris’ campaign,” Harris-Walz Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks says.
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