Former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $3 million advertising blitz in battleground states to denounce Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' economic proposals that include trillions of dollars in tax increases.
Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit conservative advocacy group founded by Pence, will run the digital ads. pennsylvania,Ohio, montana. His group also plans to distribute “message memos” suggesting political attack lines for Republican candidates competing in those states.
The ad campaign will highlight the economic successes of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law by former President Donald Trump, and Harris' plans to increase taxes. 5 trillion dollars If she is elected president.
“The 2017 Republican tax cuts provided a much-needed economic boom here in Pennsylvania,” Annmarie Nelms, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based restaurateur, said in one of the ads. to vote against.
That boom included small business expansion and rising wages in central Pennsylvania, Nelms said, while Vice President Harris, 59, said he wanted to “push through the largest tax increase in American history.” ” and accused him of wanting it.
“Many small business owners I know wouldn't last a year if the taxes were increased,” Nelms argued.
Leanne Taylor, a real estate broker and manager of the Montana Department of Commerce's Division of Business, said in another ad that after President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and before Democrats took control of the White House, “Rent and mortgage rates were It was affordable.” Pence was a top supporter of Trump at the time.
“Every company I've even talked to in the last few days is in favor of making the tax cuts permanent,” Taylor said of the tax cuts, which expire in December 2025 unless renewed. “This has to stop. Don't raise my taxes. Don't raise anyone's taxes.”
The ad also criticizes Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is in a tough re-election battle against Republican challenger Tim Sheehy, for voting against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
According to the latest poll by AAF, a majority of Americans (58%) want to cut taxes, including 68% of Republicans and 43% of Democrats.
In a message memo distributed to Republican candidates in each state, the nonprofit organization also noted that real median household income hit a record high of $78,250 under the Trump administration in 2019. emphasized.
Total real wages and salaries were $3.6 trillion higher than Congressional Budget Office estimates for tax cuts.
At least 5 million jobs were also added to the economy between the signing of the Trump tax cuts and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
A separate analysis last month by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that Harris' economic policies would cost the United States 786,000 jobs and increase the national debt by $4.1 trillion.
The think tank also predicted that the proposal would shrink U.S. long-term GDP by 2% and reduce wages by 1.2%.
