WASHINGTON — Ex-Veep Kamala Harris has scoffed at the notion the Trump campaign ad about her supporting government-funded trans surgery for illegal migrants and inmates was a “knockout punch” for her presidential bid.
During the 2024 campaign cycle, Trump’s camp seized upon Harris’s support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries, crafting a biting ad declaring, “Kamala’s for they/them, President Trump is for you.”
Some political pundits have argued that the ad was one of the death knells to her campaign.
But Harris, in her upcoming memoir “107 Days,” chalked up that belief to “the conventional wisdom of middle-aged men who don’t live in battleground states” — although she admitted Trump’s ad did feel like a “winning message.”
Still, the middle-aged California native said she d