The spot from one of the biggest super PACs backing Donald Trump portrays Kamala Harris as a radical leftist, especially on crime — channeling a G.O.P. law-and-order message that dates back to Nixon.
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MAGA Inc., one of the biggest super PACs supporting Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, has aired this 30-second ad on television stations in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania over the past week at a cost, so far, of around $4.4 million, according to AdImpact.
Here’s a look at the ad, its accuracy and its major takeaway.
On the Screen
The ad opens with a visual juxtaposition: In the center of the screen we see a younger Kamala Harris as San Francisco’s district attorney. To the left, we see the mug shot of Devaughndre Broussard, who was prosecuted by Ms. Harris’s office and convicted of assaulting and robbing a transit passenger but was sentenced to probation; a year later, he confessed to killing a newspaper editor with a shotgun.
A narrator’s deep voice cuts in, along with big all-caps headlines, as photos of Ms. Harris as a prosecutor flash by: “Liberal Kamala Harris let killers go free.” “Kamala Harris put criminals first.”
Next, a bouquet of roses is shown atop a polished black coffin. A newspaper article is shown about the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Miami, Jessica Lunsford — a mug shot of her killer is shown — which prompted the passage of laws to keep sex offenders away from children.
Then, text is displayed screaming that Ms. Harris, as California’s attorney general, “ignored Jessica’s Law” and “allowed convicted sex offenders to live near schools and parks” — the latter over a black-and-white video clip of a child’s swing, empty but swaying.
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