Harris Campaign Seizes on Top Moment of The Night For Undecided Battleground Voters
Walz After Vance Refused to Acknowledge 2020 Loss: “America, You’ve Got a Really Clear Choice of Who’s Going To Honor Democracy and Who’s Going to Honor Donald Trump.”
First in Series of Ads Lifting Up Key Moments for Undecided Voters From Last Night’s Debate
This morning, just hours after the CBS vice presidential debate, Team Harris-Walz launched a new campaign ad slamming JD Vance’s “damning non-answer” on a simple yes or no question: whether Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Sen. JD Vance refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, setting off one of the most consequential exchanges of the debate for undecided battleground voters.
Immediately, reporters, analysts and pundits jumped on Vance’s “damning non-answer” as one of the top moments of the night – and the voters agreed. For undecided battleground state voters, it represented the starkest and most salient contrast between the two presidential tickets: While Walz scored highly standing up for the Constitution, Vance tanked among these voters while defending the indefensible: Donald Trump and his role on January 6.
For one undecided Michigan voter, “the one thing that stuck out was Vance’s refusal to say whether or not Trump lost the 2020 election … His refusal to agree with things that most people very clearly see makes me think he is not as trustworthy.”
Interspersed with harrowing footage from January 6 and the unforgivable and deadly effort to overrule our democracy, the ad ends with a stark warning: “If we elect Donald Trump, the past will be the future.”
Part of Team Harris-Walz’s $370 million in fall paid media reservations, “JD Vance’s Damning Non-Answer” will air digitally across battleground states. This is the first in a series of digital ads that will be launched highlighting key moments that resonated with undecided battleground voters from last night’s debate.
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