Saturday, October 5, 2024

New wave of Harris-Walz campaign ads focus on impact of Trump agenda on AANHPI communities

The latest ads from the Harris-Walz campaign links Donald Trump to the racist Project 2025
and its negative impacts on the AANHPI communities.


With a little more than a month to go, Democrats believe that Asian American voters will play a key role in selecting the next President of the United States and have ramped up their outreach to the AANHPI communities.

The Team Harris-Walz on Oct. 2 rolled out the latest ads in its Project 2025 paid media blitz that kicked off in August highlighting the threat that Trump’s extreme agenda poses for Asian American communities

.“Donald Trump vilified Asian Americans, incited a devastating wave of anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, and failed them as president,” said Andrew Peng, Harris-Walz Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander spokesperson.

“From hate to health care, voters deserve to know the ways Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would take our families and communities backwards, while Vice President Kamala Harris promises to fight for a new way forward for all Americans.”

The television and digital pots “Disaster” and “Set Us Back” – which will blanket the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin starting this week – explain how Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would harm Asian American families by eliminating the US Department of Education, banning abortion nationwide, ripping away critical health care protections, and weakening enforcement of gun laws.

Following the release of “Reduced,” “The Seal,” and “My Mother,” the new ads represent the campaign’s fourth wave of ads targeting Asian American voters in battleground markets since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for President – and are fueled by Team Harris-Walz’s historic $370 million in digital and television advertising reservations between Labor Day and Election Day.

Like previous ads, Asian American voters will see and hear “Disaster” and “Set Us Back” across a broad range of digital channels like Meta, Snap, YouTube, Connected TV, iHeart Radio, and Pandora – as well as on nearly 70 different broadcast outlets that serve diverse Asian American audiences.



The ads build on Team Harris-Walz and Democrats’ record-breaking investments to reach Asian American voters, who are expected to be the margin of victory in this election. With less than a month to go, the campaign is continuing to aggressively ramp up its activities – with Asian American outreach staff already deployed nationally and across the battlegrounds, and a flurry of digital, TV, radio, and print ads set to launch in the homestretch of the presidential race. 

Besides the AANHPI communities, the Harris-Walz team has similiar outreach strategies to other voters of color including Blacks and Latino/as, LGBTQ, women and younger voters.

The campaign’s work to earn every single vote is apparently paying off. A recent survey by APIA Vote found that Asian American voters are far more likely to say that they have been contacted by the Democratic Party than the GOP – a factor that could make all the difference in key swing states.

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