The Harris campaign is taking aim at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s former top officials who have distanced themselves from serving during his time as president in a new ad.
The campaign appears to be attempting to get under Trump’s skin as he prepares to face off with Vice President Kamala Harris: It will run, the campaign said, on “Fox News and in the West Palm Beach and Philadelphia media markets on debate day.”
It features first-person testimony from some of Trump’s top lieutenants, including his vice president, Mike Pence.
“Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence said in 2023.
It also features his defense secretary, Mark Esper, who said in 2023 that Trump’s actions “(place) our nation’s security at risk.”
And his national security adviser, John Bolton, who warned days ago on CNN that Trump “will cause a lot of damage.”
And his chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Mark Miley, who obliquely referenced Trump as he said in 2023, “We don’t take an oath to a king or queen, pirate or dictator. We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”
The ad, titled “The Best People,” is part of an existing $370 million digital and TV advertising expenditure by the Harris campaign.