President Joe Biden’s campaign is highlighting abortion in its latest digital ad, and two Florida men competing for his job are front and center in it.
The one-minute spot — part of a 16-week, $25 million media campaign — prominently features Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump and underlines their efforts to roll back abortion rights.
It will run for two weeks on YouTube and connected TV beginning Friday, targeting women in battleground states.
“This ad is the first of many that will hold all MAGA Republicans accountable for their extreme, losing positions throughout the cycle, while also highlighting the President’s support for women and their fundamental rights,” said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Campaign Manager for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris stand with the overwhelming majority of Americans against these bans, and for codifying Roe into law.
The ad includes a clip from Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate in which DeSantis declares, “I believe in a culture of life.”
It does not contain DeSantis’ assertion during the debate that Biden and “Democrats are (trying to approve) abortion up until the moment of birth. That isn’t accurate. Biden has committed to restoring abortion rights protected under the now-overturned Roe decision, which safeguarded a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy until a fetus is viable for birth, with some exceptions.
The ad is also missing when DeSantis refused onstage to commit to expanding nationwide the ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy in Florida, which he signed in April.
But it includes audio of Trump taking credit for getting “rid of Roe v. Wade” through the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices. There is also a clip of Trump during his 2016 run for the presidency saying “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who seek abortions if the procedure is banned nationally.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina also appears in the ad, saying, “I would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation that they can get through Congress.”
The ad is running in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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