Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign’s unveiled an advert Friday highlighting former President Trump’s reward for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), searching for to hyperlink the 2 Republicans following a bombshell CNN report on the gubernatorial candidate.
The 30-second spot, titled “Both Wrong,” consists of clips from Trump speaking about Robinson, calling him “higher” than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “excellent,” and saying “he’s been an unbelievable lieutenant governor.”
The advert, first reported by CNN, additionally consists of clips of Robinson speaking about his hard-right views on abortion. And, it argues: “Donald Trump and Mark Robinson, they’re each unsuitable for North Carolina.”
Harris’s marketing campaign has been eying North Carolina, a state Trump received in 2016 and 2020, as a flip this cycle. Trump has a 0.5 proportion level lead over Harris in North Carolina, in response to The Hill/Choice Desk HQ aggregate of polls.
Simply after the CNN report on Robinson, which unveiled a big span of inflammatory feedback that Robinson reportedly made on a pornography web site’s message board greater than 10 years in the past, Harris’s campaign posted a video on the social platform X of clips of Trump praising Robinson.
The Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) has additionally launched ads linking Trump and Robinson, saying it’s “blanketing” the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and Greensboro within the Tar Heel State with the messaging forward of Trump’s rally in Wilmington on Saturday.
Robinson will not be in attendance on the Trump rally, a supply instructed The Hill on Friday. Trump has endorsed Robinson, who has vowed to remain within the race regardless of widespread criticism over his previous remarks.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the Harris marketing campaign advert.
