Swalwell ad shows family sending Trump to nursing home
An ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign that the California Democrat posted Wednesday on social platform X imagines a family sending former President Trump to a nursing home.
The ad shows an actor playing the former president interacting with a family in various situations, including at a family meal, with the actor referencing multiple notable Trump comments, like when he discussed a false claim during a presidential debate last month of pets in Springfield, Ohio, being consumed by Haitian immigrants.
The family then takes the stand-in for Trump to a nursing home named “A Place For Trump,” where a voiceover in the ad says he “can enjoy the things he loves, like eating cheeseburgers and rage-posting at 3 a.m.”
“So this November, let's vote to put him in A Place For Trump, because we all know he belongs in a home, just not this one,” the voiceover says at the end of the ad as a photo of the White House appears.
Swalwell’s post featuring the ad comes as Vice President Harris’s campaign has, as of late, focused on the former president’s age, with the vice president herself commenting on Trump’s recent interview cancellations.
“He is ducking debates and canceling interviews,” Harris said of Trump at a rally in Michigan last week. “Come on. And check this out, his own campaign team recently said it is because of exhaustion. Well, if you are exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises real questions about whether you are fit for the toughest job in the world.”
Following President Biden's exit from the presidential race in late July, Harris, 60, became the younger of the two major party presidential candidates, while Trump is 78. In an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ Harris is leading Trump by only 0.9 percentage points, with the vice president garnering 48.7 percent support to Trump’s 47.8 percent.
Swalwell is favored to win his reelection bid against Republican Vin Kruttiventi, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling average.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.
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