Harris Campaign Releases New Ad Featuring Former Members Of Trump Administration

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign released an ad that featured former Trump officials warning about the dangers of a second presidential term under Donald Trump.     

Entitled “The Best People,” the ad aired nationally on Fox News on Tuesday, the day of the first-ever Harris-Trump debate. According to the Harris campaign, it will air for the rest of this week. 

The ad featured four former Trump officials, prefacing, “In 2016, Donald Trump said he would only choose the best people to work in his white house. Those people have a warning for America: Trump is not fit to be president again.”

“Anyone who puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the United States.“ former Vice President Mike Pence is seen saying in a clip of the ad. In the following clip, Pence further states, “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.”

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper are also featured. The ad shows an interview with Esper, in which he states that Trump can’t be trusted with the “nation’s secrets ever again.“  

In another clip of the ad, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton states, “Donald Trump will cause a lot of damage“ and  “the only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.”

The narrator concludes, “Take it from the people who knew him best. Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We can’t let him lead our country again.“ 

Coming after many former Republican staffers endorsed Harris for president, the ad is part of the Harris campaign’s $370 million digital and television buy. 

Quentin Fulks, Harris-Walz’s principal deputy campaign manager, explained that the ad “will remind Fox News viewers, perhaps even a certain defeated former president himself, about how Trump’s national security team can’t stomach him anymore because of how he’d put the country at risk.”