Donald Trump’s campaign released a new television ad Friday evening starring Ivanka Trump, the GOP nominee’s daughter from his first wife, Ivana.
The ad, titled “Motherhood,” highlights the Trump campaign’s new maternity leave plan.
“Mr. Trump’s childcare affordability plan will immediately help millions of hard-working Americans provide for their families by introducing innovative solutions benefitting everybody,” the GOP nominee’s deputy communications director, Jessica Ditto, said in a statement.
“Mr. Trump’s clear vision on this issue sets him apart from Hillary Clinton, who has offered little more than partisan rhetoric and vague talking points. If you’re looking for a change to improve America, Donald Trump will provide that leadership,” Ditto said.
The Trump campaign said Friday that the new Ivanka ad is slated to run in several battleground states, though they would not say which ones.
The Clinton campaign has characterized the Trump child care plan as “half-baked” nonsense.
“After spending his entire career — and this entire campaign — demeaning women and dismissing the need to support working families, Donald Trump released a regressive and insufficient ‘maternity leave’ policy that is out-of-touch, half-baked and ignores the way Americans live and work today,” Clinton policy aide Maya Harris said this month in a statement.
“The lack of seriousness of this proposal is no surprise given his history of disrespecting women in the workplace and the fact there’s no evidence he ever provided paid family leave or childcare to his own employees,” she said.
