Kamala Harris backers launch $15 million pro-abortion ad campaign in swing states

 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida’s new six-week abortion ban on May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. Harris has made abortion policy a central issue of her presidential campaign. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA).

A political action committee that supports Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential candidacy launched a $15 million advertisement campaign in key battleground states that promotes the Democratic nominee’s pro-abortion political agenda.

The campaign, launched by American Bridge 21st Century on Thursday, will air television, radio, and digital advertisements promoting Harris’ support for abortion and criticizing former President Donald Trump. The advertisements will air in three important swing states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

“American Bridge’s program to defeat Donald Trump has always been about three things: abortion, democracy, and freedom,” Bradley Beychok, co-founder of American Bridge 21st Century, said in a statement.

“Voters in the Blue Wall states, especially women, will make or break this election,” Beychok continued. “That’s why American Bridge is putting their true stories about Trump’s threats to reproductive rights [abortion] at the forefront of our paid media program, and why we’re fighting to make sure that voters know how much is at stake this November.”

One of the television advertisements airing in Michigan opens with a resident who works as a physician’s assistant saying: “I think Kamala Harris understands the people I serve [because] she’s not going to stop until reproductive rights [abortion] are restored.”

“We know exactly where Trump stands on abortion,” the physician’s assistant continues. “When I heard him bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade, it gutted me.”

The advertisement quotes the former president taking credit for the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which allowed states to pass restrictions on abortion. Trump has campaigned on the position that abortion policies should be set by states but has said he would not sign a federal law that prohibits abortion.

Harris has said she would support legislation to codify Roe v. Wade’s abortion standards into federal law, which would prevent states from adopting pro-life laws that restrict abortion. In the Sept. 10 presidential debate, the vice president refused to say whether she supports late-term abortion.

The advertisement alleges that Trump could restrict birth control and in vitro fertilization or sign a federal law that prohibits abortion. The former president has said he does not support federal restrictions on abortion or restrictions on birth control or in vitro fertilization.

This advertisement campaign builds on Harris’ emphasis on abortion policy as a key element of her 2024 presidential campaign. The vice president has led the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to promote abortion and has consistently supported abortion as a senator and as the attorney general of California.

American Bridge 21st Century intends to spend about $140 million on advertising campaigns to support Harris’ candidacy. The political action committee’s funders include billionaires Michael Moritz and Reid Hoffman, according to OpenSecrets.

Polls are showing tight races in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. According to averages compiled by RealClearPolling, Harris is ahead by less than two percentage points in Wisconsin and by less than one percentage point in Michigan. The polls show Harris and Trump virtually tied in Pennsylvania.

In Pennsylvania, both mail-in and in-person early voting begins on Sept. 16. In Michigan, mail-in early voting begins on Sept. 26 and in-person early voting starts on Oct. 16. In Wisconsin, mail-in early voting begins on Sept. 19 and in-person early voting starts on Oct. 22.


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5 Comments

  1. And yet, considering all the truths in this article, there are plenty of Christians, including Catholics, who don’t plan to vote for Donald Trump for various reasons that basically are about his “abrasive personality.” They plan to vote for someone civil, nice, polite, well-spoken, temperate, not necessarily a strong Christian or even a weak Christian or even a person who claims to be a Christian. The most important trait of the POTUS is not that they are “righteous”, but that they always think before they speak and that they are “civil” and don’t shoot off their mouth and say stuff that offends people, e.g., “late-term abortions.”

    I think there are about 3 people in the world who never have “verbal diarrhea,” and I doubt any of them are running for U.S. President. And if they live in the U.S. and do put their names out there for President, they will be lucky to get a thousand votes total, which means that VP Kamala Harris, who supports abortion throughout all nine months (although she claimed that late-term abortions are extremely rare in the U.S.), and also supports “gender-affirming care” (AKA as irreversible surgery that mutilates the human body) will walk away with the win and become our U.S. President.

    Oh, well. VP Harris has a beautiful smile. And according to her political ads, we’ll all be “better off” when she is POTUS. At least I have a cat I can eat.

  2. About President Kennedy’s waffling on abortion and now a candidate smiling an aggressive campaign platform…her cackle is the past six decades in a nutshell:

    From Hyannis Port to Hyena Harris.

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