Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign launched a brand new digital commercial that targets Black males’s love lives, insinuating that they are going to be rejected by ladies in the event that they don’t have a plan to vote.
The advertisements depict a courting recreation during which a Black man approaches a gaggle of ladies who’re holding balloons. They start to ask him questions on himself, together with how a lot he makes, how tall he’s and whether or not he works out.
The person’s solutions get seemingly constructive responses from the ladies, till one asks him if he has a plan to vote in November.
“Nah, not my factor,” the person says, prompting all the ladies within the scene to pop their balloons.
“Vote. Election Day is Nov 5,” reads a message on the finish of the advert alongside a Harris-Walz marketing campaign brand.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Williams Enviornment at Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina College on Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina. (Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
“New Harris/Walz advert tells black males that ladies will reject them in the event that they don’t vote,” Middle for the Examine of Partisanship and Ideology President Richard Hanania remarked in a submit on X together with a video of the advert. “Memorable and works as an enchantment to self-interest.”
However not all customers have been offered on the content material of the advert, with some arguing that the advert solely served to “insult” and “dehumanize” Black males.
“Democrats proceed to dehumanize and insult black males and attempt to disgrace and stress them into solely voting for them,” one person wrote. “Kamala marketing campaign doesn’t even attempt to interact respectfully.”
“Does the Harris Walz crew actually imagine this may persuade anybody to vote for them?” requested one other.
“Belittling and insulting,” one other person added.
“I feel this might need the alternative impact,” one person quipped.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Picture/Brynn Anderson)
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The advert comes as some have begun to take a position that Harris is struggling to win over the help of younger Black males, a sometimes reliable demographic of voters for Democrats.
In accordance with one Howard College Initiative on Public Opinion ballot, 81% of Black males say they plan to vote for Harris, although that quantity drops to 68% for Black males beneath 50 years previous, with 21% of that group indicating they plan to help former President Trump.
Former President Barack Obama has additionally joined in on the current enchantment to Black males, arguing at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month that the group ought to have the identical enthusiasm for Harris as they did for his campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
“My understanding, based mostly on stories I am getting from campaigns and communities, is that we now have not but seen the identical sorts of vitality and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we noticed once I was operating,” Obama mentioned on the time, including that the shortage of enthusiasm “appears to be extra pronounced with the brothers” and that they won’t wish to help a feminine president.
Former President Barack Obama (Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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“And you might be occupied with sitting out?” he mentioned. “A part of it makes me assume – and I am chatting with males immediately – a part of it makes me assume that, properly, you simply aren’t feeling the concept of getting a girl as president, and also you’re developing with different alternate options and different causes for that.”
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark.
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