Vice President Kamala Harris' posture on the southern border crisis is set to haunt down-ballot Democrats in the November election, with Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake previewing the GOP's attack in battleground states following the Democratic ticket shakeup.
"Ruben Gallego and Kamala Harris: Bad for the border. Bad for Arizona. Bad for America," a narrator says in Lake's first ad of the general election campaign. The words appear over footage of Rep. Ruben Gallego, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Arizona, and Harris hugging.
The video also slammed Gallego for his record of voting with President Biden and Harris 100% of the time in the 117th Congress between 2021 and 2022, according to FiveThirtyEight.
The ad is part of a $10 million ad reservation previously announced by Lake in May.
Harris is seen in the video saying that she doesn't think the U.S. should treat people who "cross the border as criminals." The footage is from a 2019 appearance on "The View" during her bid for the Democratic nominee for president in the 2020 election.
"We're not going to support a border wall that is not needed," Gallego says in subsequent footage. The statement from the Arizona Democrat was made on CNN in 2018.
In the next clip, Harris was asked by a CNN anchor whether she agreed with calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to which she replied that, "we need to probably even think about starting from scratch."
The then-senator said, "I think there is no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way it is being administered and the work it is doing," prior to the remark in 2018.
A 2017 comment from Gallego describing the border wall proposed by former President Trump as "stupid" and "dumb" during a speech on the House floor is then played in the ad. The representative was criticizing the Trump administration for seeking to use military construction funds to continue the wall as the building process was otherwise stalled by Congress.
Lake officially won the Republican nod for Senate on Tuesday, defeating Sheriff Mark Lamb. Gallego ran for the Democratic nomination unopposed. Current incumbent Sinema revealed earlier this year that she wouldn't be seeking re-election. She was first elected to the seat in 2018 as a Democrat before switching her party affiliation in 2022.
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"Ruben Gallego and Kamala Harris: Bad for the border. Bad for Arizona. Bad for America," a narrator says in Lake's first ad of the general election campaign. The words appear over footage of Rep. Ruben Gallego, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Arizona, and Harris hugging.
The video also slammed Gallego for his record of voting with President Biden and Harris 100% of the time in the 117th Congress between 2021 and 2022, according to FiveThirtyEight.
The ad is part of a $10 million ad reservation previously announced by Lake in May.
Harris is seen in the video saying that she doesn't think the U.S. should treat people who "cross the border as criminals." The footage is from a 2019 appearance on "The View" during her bid for the Democratic nominee for president in the 2020 election.
"We're not going to support a border wall that is not needed," Gallego says in subsequent footage. The statement from the Arizona Democrat was made on CNN in 2018.
In the next clip, Harris was asked by a CNN anchor whether she agreed with calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to which she replied that, "we need to probably even think about starting from scratch."
The then-senator said, "I think there is no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way it is being administered and the work it is doing," prior to the remark in 2018.
A 2017 comment from Gallego describing the border wall proposed by former President Trump as "stupid" and "dumb" during a speech on the House floor is then played in the ad. The representative was criticizing the Trump administration for seeking to use military construction funds to continue the wall as the building process was otherwise stalled by Congress.
Lake officially won the Republican nod for Senate on Tuesday, defeating Sheriff Mark Lamb. Gallego ran for the Democratic nomination unopposed. Current incumbent Sinema revealed earlier this year that she wouldn't be seeking re-election. She was first elected to the seat in 2018 as a Democrat before switching her party affiliation in 2022.
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