The ads are being aired in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and claim the former President “seems dedicated to taking us backwards.”
Kamala Harris’s backers are trying to capitalize on one of the vice president’s strongest issues, in a new abortion-focused ad aimed at key battleground states.
On Thursday, a Democratic Super PAC launched a series of ads aiming to draw a contrast between the records of Harris and former President Donald Trump on reproductive rights.
In one of these ads, a nurse practitioner from Pennsylvania speaks to the camera and says: “Donald Trump seems dedicated to taking us backwards.”
Another, airing in Michigan, features an OB-GYN speaking about her own experiences with abortion.
“When my pregnancy was in crisis, and the child I wanted and loved had a devastating diagnosis, we chose to have an abortion”, she says. “Politicians like Donald Trump have no right to make that medical decision for me and my family.”
It comes as a poll from Focaldata showed that Trump, while being on track to lose the popular vote (45.9 percent to Harris’s 47.5 percent), is set to flip Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and crucially, Pennsylvania.
The appeals in the ads, interlayed with footage of Trump, urge voters to support Harris in November, who they claim, “believes its women, and not politicians, who should be making their own healthcare decisions.”
Newsweek has contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns for their response to the ads.
The $15 million ad campaign has been orchestrated by American Bridge 21st Century, a D.
