They’re getting started.
In a new attack ad, the Trump campaign blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for her past support for government-backed transgender surgeries for detainees and migrants held in detention centers.
“Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners,” a narrator began in the spot, titled “Nonsense.” “Even the liberal media was shocked that Kamala supported taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal immigrants.”
“Kamala is for them. President Trump is for you.”
Earlier this month, just before the debate between former President Donald Trump and Harris, CNN dug up an old questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2020 campaign, in which the future vice president expressed support for government-backed transgender surgeries.
She said that as president, she would use her executive powers to “ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention centers” have access to “all necessary surgical care.”
“I support policies that ensure that federal prisoners and detainees can obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained,” she wrote in response.
“Bridging treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to provide bridging treatment.”
In an interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund during the 2020 election cycle, Harris reiterated this position.
She said that when she was California’s attorney general, she “worked behind the scenes” to ensure that the state Department of Corrections changed its policy “so that every transgender inmate in the correctional system has access to the medical care they want and need.”
The Trump campaign spot highlights Harris’ comments in that interview with NCTE and features media headlines reporting on her past position.
The political ad ends with a 2017 headline summarizing the 45th president’s agenda: “Trump: Lower Taxes, Higher Wages for Workers.”
Trump raised the issue of transgender surgery during his debate against Harris, criticizing her for “wanting to perform transgender surgeries on illegal immigrants in prison.”
Last July, Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham asked the 78-year-old about his pronouns.
“I don’t have – I don’t want pronouns,” Trump retorted.
The Post has contacted the Harris-Walz campaign about her former position.
Since her sudden rise to the Democratic nomination, Harris has been haunted by some of the far-left positions she adopted during her unsuccessful 2020 White House bid.
Since then, Harris has backtracked on many of her policy agenda items, including banning plastic straws and fracking, positions she said were necessary to win Pennsylvania. She has also softened her proposals for Medicare for All, a mandatory gun buyback program that her advisers reportedly suggested scrapping, decriminalizing illegal border crossings and a federal jobs guarantee.
Trump has indicated he has no plans to face Harris again in a future debate before the election.
Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is set to face Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1 in a debate hosted by CBS News.
