Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump warned the Detroit Economic Club that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Kamala Harris is elected, her campaign unveiled a new ad slamming his comments.
“He should be so goddamn lucky,” narrator Courtney B. Vance, a Detroit native, says to conclude the ad, which features scenes of Detroit’s resurgence since the city filed for bankruptcy more than a decade ago.
According to a statement from Harris’ campaign, the 60-second ad will run on television during this weekend’s Detroit Tigers and Lions games. It will also appear on social media.
Trump disparaged the city Thursday during an address to the Detroit Economic Club. The audience, which was well-populated by supporters, did not audibly react to the statement.
The ad celebrates the city’s rebound and praises the resiliency of its residents. It also features another Trump statement from the 2020 election, when he said Detroit was like “living in hell.”
Trump has been courting Detroiters for months, hoping to peel off young Black voters from Democrats in order to win Michigan, one of the most hotly-contested battleground states. In 2020, Trump carried about 5% of the vote in the city, a slight improvement over his 2016 result.
— Simon Schuster
