Former Vice President Joe Biden used imagery from Fox News broadcasts and a top Trump administration official in a new ad recorded in Spanish claiming he is the right person to unify a bitterly divided American public.
“We’ve lost our way,” a narrator says midway through the minute-and-a-half advertisement while an image of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is displayed. “Our politics have become so petty, so negative, so cruel. It’s tearing us apart and dragging us down.”
The spot features the faces of prime-time Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham before playing a b-roll of detention facilities used to house illegal immigrants near the southern border with Mexico.
Democrats have derided those facilities as “cages” and evidence of Trump’s hard-line immigration policies.
“Now Joe Biden is running for president,” the ad says. “As president, he will unite us all back to the vision of our founders of the United States of America.”
Biden’s challengers in the 2020 Democratic primary have been somewhat divided on whether to appear on Fox News to promote themselves.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a town hall on the network last month. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., followed suit.
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Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2019
But others are having a more difficult time cozying up to the nation’s most-watched cable news network.
“Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., earlier this week. “It’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.”
Biden’s most recent advertisement was a pitch to Spanish-speaking Americans to attend an upcoming rally in Philadelphia — the announced site of his national campaign headquarters.
“Towns like Reading, Penn., are the backbone of America. Strong communities, built and maintained by immigrants,” the campaign says in the ad. “In Philadelphia, the founders of our nation set forth the words of the constitution. We the people. Not you, not me, but we.”