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The Trump campaign is outraged over a “despicable and racist” attack ad from Kamala Harris targeting Asian American voters.
The ad implies Trump’s presidency could lead to a return of World War II-era internment camps and an increase in racially motivated crimes, referencing the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin. According to a Daily Wire report, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said the ad shows the campaign has “no morals, decency, or ethical standards.”
“This is despicable and racist behavior by Kamala Harris and her team,” said Cheung, the son of Chinese immigrants. “They have no morals, decency, or ethical standards, so they resort to the lowest form of political theater. Andrew Peng is a f***ing disgrace to the AAPI community and he should be shamed for throwing his own people down the gutter for political purposes.”
Peng is a Harris campaign official in charge of mobilizing Asian American voters. The ad displays images of internment camps before concluding with Harris’ endorsement of the content and the message.
Things are getting out of hand. @KamalaHarris just dropped a new ad targeting Asian voters that suggests Trump will bring back internment camps, blames him for the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin pic.twitter.com/CYa3ZhdKfz
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 26, 2024
Many have found the ad to be beyond disingenuous and even downright despicable, as well as patronizing toward Asian Americans. Some found it questionable that the Democrats would make the gross implication that Trump and the Republican Party would be inserting Asian Americans into internment camps when the Democrat Party infamously was in power during the internment of Japanese Americans in the era of WWII. There have also been confusing reactions as to how the Harris campaign is trying to link the murder of Chin to Trump.
See the reactions below:
Nope, that’s not it. Americans of Asian heritage know full well what Kamala Harris would turn our country into: the places our families escaped from. That’s why we are supporting @realDonaldTrump.
10:51 AM https://t.co/dTBooYg1S7— Hung Cao (@HungCao_VA) October 26, 2024
The Harris campaign is running an anti-Trump ad that flashes an image of an *internment camp* (created by a Democratic president, if we’re going there) and appears to blame Trump for the early-80s murder of an Asian man in Michigan. Astonishing demagoguery. https://t.co/5HqRt9YKwc
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 26, 2024
What an insane ad.
Further, the fact Democrats don’t face more criticism all these years later for FDR’s internment camps is bananas too. https://t.co/hie0Xhqq7l
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 26, 2024
Only one party ever put people in internment camps. Guess which one? https://t.co/74ySXyuige
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 26, 2024
These kind of ads are going to insult and repel Asian voters if anything else.
I get politics can be dirty, but this is absolutely nauseating . https://t.co/RRIzf6RbDf
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) October 26, 2024
According to the Daily Wire report, the Harris campaign will air the ad in every battleground state, and said the ad is aimed for “the need to safeguard democracy and protect the fundamental rights of Asian American communities who have too often been vilified, excluded, and marginalized throughout history.”
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