Pro-Trump super PAC spending millions on ads attacking Harris
A top super PAC supporting former President Trump’s reelection bid is planning to spend millions of dollars on attack ads against Vice President Harris as she emerges as Trump’s likely opponent in November.
MAGA Inc. is launching new ads targeting Harris on immigration and her record as a prosecutor in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.
“Democrats got their shotgun wedding, but we’ll be cutting the honeymoon short,” MAGA Inc. CEO Taylor Budowich said in a statement. “Kamala Harris is currently only known as a failed and unpopular Vice President who knifed her boss in the back to secure a nomination she couldn’t earn, but voters are about to learn: it gets worse.”
Politico first reported on the new ad spending, which is expected to total roughly $12 million per week through Labor Day.
The ads have not yet aired, but one reportedly will focus on the issue of immigration and the southern border.
Republicans are ramping up their attacks on Harris, who has quickly consolidated support among Democrats after President Biden announced Sunday he would not seek reelection.
Trump and his allies have relentlessly branded Harris as the “border czar” of the Biden administration, a reference to the assignment Biden gave her in 2021 to address the root causes of migration in Central America that was causing a surge in crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Politico reported that a second ad will focus on Harris's time as a prosecutor in California. Trump has attacked her record while working in the San Francisco district attorney’s office and as California attorney general to paint her as a “radical” liberal.
Harris has used her record as a prosecutor to draw a contrast with Trump and his lengthy list of legal problems.
“I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type,” Harris has said in multiple campaign speeches this week.
MAGA Inc. previously pledged to commit $100 million through Labor Day in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, viewing those states as the clearest path to victory for the former president.