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Join Telegram ChannelA new Harris campaign ad calling Trump “dangerous” will feature comments from several former top Trump officials, including former Vice President Mike Pence.
The ad, titled “The Best People,” seeks to revive criticism of Trump by former top officials he hired. It will air the same day as the presidential debate on ABC on Tuesday and is expected to air on several Fox affiliates across the country.
“Anyone who puts themselves above the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence said in August 2023. The statement comes after former President Donald Trump was indicted for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election results. Harris’ campaign used the remark in its new ad, along with a second remark Pence made on Fox News about six months ago, saying he would not support Trump for president.
“Take advice from the people who knew him best,” a narrator says in the ad.
But despite the former vice president’s appearance in the new ad, where he criticizes Trump, his decision not to endorse Trump does not mean he supports Kamala Harris, suggested a spokesperson for Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit recently founded by Pence. The spokesperson cited on Fox News Digital a specific comment Pence made last month in Atlanta, Georgia, during which Pence stated flatly: “I could never vote for Kamala Harris for president of the United States, or Tim Walz for my running mate.”
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Vice President Mike Pence and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke to reporters after Pence visited 3M's global headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota. ((Photo by Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images))
The Harris campaign's new ad also included year-old remarks from former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Esper’s comments used in the ad come from a June 2023 CNN interview, in which he was asked whether Trump “can be trusted” with the nation’s secrets in light of scrutiny over how he handled classified documents after leaving the White House. “No,” Esper responds. “It’s just an irresponsible action that endangers our military, endangers our national security.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Esper's representatives to see if he was aware of his appearance in the ad, but did not receive a response.
Meanwhile, former Trump national security adviser John Bolton and Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, also appeared in the Harris campaign’s new ad. Both Bolton and Milley have a history of being vocal critics of Trump.
John Bolton, former Trump national security adviser (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“Donald Trump is going to do a lot of damage,” Bolton said in the ad. “The only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.”
Bolton's comments highlighted in the ad come from a CNN interview in October 2023 and last week, respectively.
The ad concludes with remarks Milley made during his final speech as the nation’s top general in September 2023. “We’re not swearing an oath to a king, a queen, a tyrant or a dictator,” Milley says in the ad. “And we’re not swearing an oath to a dictator-in-the-making.”
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Bolton and Milley for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley during a farewell tribute to the armed forces at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday. (Nathan Howard/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt, meanwhile, criticized the new ad, calling it an attempt to “distract attention” from Trump's “dangerous liberalism.” [Harris] East.”
“The Kamala campaign is using the words of a few disgruntled losers because they are losing in the polls and trying to distract from the fact that Kamala is losing the support of moderate Democrats who realize how dangerously liberal she is,” Leavitt said Monday.