Harris courts Latinos with health care-focused ads slamming Trump
Source: CBS News
Updated on: October 1, 2024 / 7:18 AM EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is ramping up its efforts to win over Latino voters across battleground states with a health care-focused ad blitz attacking former President Donald Trump, as recent polls show her advantage over him among these voters is significantly smaller than President Biden's was in 2020. Starting Tuesday, Harris will have ads up arguing Trump would "rip health care away" from millions of Latinos, and in the process take money out of their pockets.
Trump has said little about health care during the 2024 presidential campaign, however, as opposed to his run in 2016, when he regularly vowed to repeal Obamacare, the nation's health care law. But numerous attempts by Congress to repeal it during his administration failed. In his debate with Harris, Trump suggested he might want to try again to push for a repeal but said if elected, he'd keep the program in place until something better emerged.
"It's still never going to be great," he said of Obamacare during the debate. "If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population less money and be better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it. But until then I'd run it as good as it can be run." Pressed on whether he had a plan to replace it, Trump replied, "I have concepts of a plan."
Harris' ad blitz is part of a $370 million investment in television and digital ads that will run until Election Day and are intended to reach voters in crucial states both in English and Spanish.
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