Kamala Harris' 5-Year-Old Warning About Trump Looks Even More Timely Today
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One of the vice president's old presidential campaign videos is getting new attention after Sunday's shakeup.
An old video ad from Vice President Kamala Harris is getting new attention on Sunday, hours after President Joe Biden withdrew his 2024 candidacy and endorsed Harris as his successor.
The video, made during her attempt to win the 2020 Democratic nomination, uses Harris’ accomplishments as a prosecutor to draw a sharp contrast with Donald Trump.
The ad hits Trump as a “sex predator,” years before a jury in New York found him liable for sexual abuse in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him. Separately, Trump was also convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying documents, in a New York criminal trial related to hush money payments he made to cover up an alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.
The spot also hammers at Trump for being “owned by big banks.” Trump has since shifted to big oil, telling industry executives that if they gave $1 billion to his campaign, he’d roll back green energy initiatives.
In many ways, the Harris ad looks like it could still air today ― and is being widely shared on social media as a result: