Harris releases 1st campaign video, targeting Trump legal woes
Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday released her first official campaign video since jumping into the race for president, in which she zeroes in on her message of "freedom" while taking direct jabs at former President Donald Trump's legal woes by using his mug shot.
"In this election, we each face a question: What kind of country do we want to live in?" Harris says in the video titled "We Choose Freedom."
"There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos. Of fear. Of hate," she says, as images of Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, flash on screen. "But us. We choose something different; we choose freedom."
The video features Beyonce's "Freedom," a song that the vice president plays as she takes the stage at rallies. It includes shots from Harris' rally just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which, according to the campaign, was their largest ever this cycle, including all of President Joe Biden's rallies since he got into the race in April 2023.
The new campaign add features Harris saying "no one is above the law" over footage of the the former president's mug shot and newspaper headlines after he was convicted in a New York court.
On the campaign trail, Harris has sought to frame the race as being between a former prosecutor and a convicted felon.
Harris said she has a vision of the future "where no child lives in poverty, where we all can afford health care, where no one is above the law," and Americans have "the freedom not just to get by but get ahead. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to make decisions about your own body."
-ABC News' Fritz Farrow, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie
