Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris has been intensively attacking her opponent, Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, for refusing to accept the 2020 election results. In a post on her X (formerly Twitter) on the 6th, Vice President Harris criticized Trump, saying, “Trump lost the 2020 election,” and “He refused to accept the will of the people, sent an armed mob into the Capitol, and threatened the life of his Vice President (Mike Pence).”
Vice President Harris then said, “We cannot grant him a second term.” Following this article, Vice President Harris also uploaded a new digital advertisement video to X. The advertisement began airing in swing states starting today. The 30-second advertisement, produced by Harris’s presidential campaign, features footage of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, along with former President Trump’s voice saying, “We’re going to fight like hell. If we don’t fight like hell, we’re not going to have a country anymore.”
The advertisement was produced after Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team submitted a new 165-page document to the court on the 2nd to prove that former President Trump’s refusal to accept the election results was a private act, not an official act. The document includes part of the conversations former President Trump had with then-Vice President Mike Pence when he refused to accept the election results, and the special counsel’s team determined that former President Trump’s attempt to overturn the election results was a “private act” that could not be subject to criminal immunity.
The ad highlights media reports on former President Trump’s actions at the time, such as “pressuring officials,” “spreading lies,” “inciting rioters,” and “threatening Pence’s life,” in subtitles. It shows a photo of former Vice President Pence and a photo of former President Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, in succession, and emphasizes, “And next time, no one will be able to stop him.”
Regarding this ad, the political media outlet Politico analyzed it as “a rare attack from the Harris camp,” and “Vice President Harris and President Joe Biden have mentioned the storming of the Capitol during their campaigns, but the Harris camp has rarely attacked it in paid ads.”