President Trump’s reelection campaign has launched a new television advertisement targeting former Vice President Joe Biden’s “radical” stances on taxes and immigration.
Trump has struggled to define the presumptive Democratic nominee in the presidential race, polling has shown. This latest effort seeks to use Biden’s own words to frame him “as having adopted the radical agenda of the extreme Left,” a senior campaign official told the Washington Examiner.
The “high seven figures” spend targets five early voting states: Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, and Wisconsin, where it will air in all markets ahead of the Democratic Party’s limited nominating convention next week. The ad will also run nationally on cable.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls in Wisconsin puts Biden ahead of Trump by 6.4 points. In 2016, Trump won the state by less than a percentage point against Hillary Clinton. Nationally, Biden leads by 6.9 points, according to a RealClearPolitics average.
Titled “In His Own Words,” the 30-second spot features Biden telling an audience, “If you elect me, your taxes are gonna be raised, not cut.”
“That means middle-class families, small businesses, and seniors pay higher taxes,” a narrator says. “It’s the biggest tax increase in history.”
Biden has denied that he would raise taxes on middle-class families or those making under $400,000 a year.
The former vice president is also shown promising “citizenship for 11 million undocumented folks.”
In response, the Trump ad tells viewers to expect 11 million more people “competing for American jobs, eligible for free healthcare, Social Security, and Medicare.”
