Trump supporters on social media are now stumbling upon a Kamala Harris campaign ad that has been running on television for weeks and features two images of the border wall.
For years, the vice president has attacked former President Donald Trump’s insistence on having a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, calling it “A stupid use of money” in 2017 and claim it “It won’t make us safer‘ in 2020.
Those previous proclamations didn’t stop her from presenting herself as a “border state prosecutor” in her ad, which features an image of a wall running through a grassy field. Later in the ad, another image of a wall is shown alongside text claiming Harris went after border gangs.
Though Harris did not explicitly say she supports the wall, Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project at the conservative Heritage Foundation, screenshotted the two images of the wall in the ad and seized on its alleged hypocrisy.
“What does this ad say?” he wrote. a publication in X. ‘Looks like @realDonaldTrump’s BORDER WALL to me!’
Throughout the ad, Kamala Harris attempted to portray herself as a “border state prosecutor” and someone who “prosecuted border gangs.”
This aerial photo taken on Dec. 8, 2023, shows the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona.
It’s not entirely clear whether the sections of border wall shown in Harris’s ad were built before Trump’s presidency, as there were barriers installed before 2017, when he took office.
There is also the distinct possibility that these images were taken at sections built under President Joe Biden, who went on to build 20 more miles of Trump’s wall.
However, several people responded to Howell’s post, most of them angry that Harris was changing her position or at least partially adopting Trump’s tougher stance on immigration.
It’s no secret that the heavy hand on the border is more popular right now, with a Gallup March Poll finding that 48 percent of Americans are “very concerned” about illegal immigration.
One user responded saying: ‘I was told walls don’t work… Did the Democrats lie to me again?’
It’s not entirely clear whether the sections of border wall shown in Harris’s ad were built before Trump’s presidency.
It’s not entirely clear whether the sections of border wall shown in Harris’s announcement, pictured, were built before Trump’s presidency, as there were barriers installed before he took office in 2017.
Another wrote: “He did nothing. Now he completely changes his mind and says he will do the opposite of what he has done? Let us pray to God that the people of this country are smart enough to see through the lies!”
Someone else posted an AI-generated image of her holding a tampon with a wrapper that said #TamponTim, a reference to her running mate Tim Walz’s decision as Minnesota governor to have feminine products in boys’ bathrooms at schools.
Others made vague allusions to Harris stealing other Trump policies, a narrative that has been gaining traction in Republican circles of late.
For example, two weeks ago he promised to abolish the tip tax on service sector workers if he wins the election in November.
Trump promised to do the same at a Las Vegas rally months before Harris realized it, and even pitched the idea to congressional Republicans days later.
Something potentially similar happened when Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said he supported a ‘a child tax credit of $5,000 per child‘ on August 11th.
Days later, Harris unveiled a set of policies, one of which included a $6,000 tax credit for newborns.
It is important to note that Vance, who is a senator from Ohio, did not vote on August 1 in favor of a bill that would expand the existing child tax credit.
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