HUFFPOST
As Vice President Kamala Harris fights to keep her advantage with Latino voters as large as possible, the campaign thinks they’ve found a potent message: former President Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
In the past week, Harris’ campaign has released two TV ads featuring former Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell talking about fighting Donald Trump’s mob on Jan. 6, 2021.
“An out-of-control president, trying to steal an election he lost by millions of votes,” Gonell says in a spot released Friday, which shows pictures and videos of the rioters attacking the Capitol.
“I fought and nearly died that day, supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States, and I would do it again because that is the oath that I took,” Gonell says. “So help me god.”
In a second ad unveiled on Wednesday, with both English and Spanish versions, Gonell says he defended the Capitol, “But now we all must defend democracy with our vote.”
The Harris campaign…
