New ‘insulting’ Harris ad target’s Black men’s love lives

Vice President Kamala Harris’ run released a caller integer advertisement that targets Black men's emotion lives, insinuating that they volition beryllium rejected by women if they don’t person a plan to vote.

The ads picture a dating crippled successful which a Black antheral approaches a radical of women who are holding balloons. They statesman to inquire him questions astir himself, including however overmuch helium makes, however gangly helium is and whether helium works out.

The man’s answers get seemingly affirmative responses from the women, until 1 asks him if helium has a program to ballot successful November.

"Nah, not my thing," the antheral says, prompting each the women successful the country to popular their balloons.

"Vote. Election Day is Nov 5," reads a connection astatine the extremity of the advertisement alongside a Harris-Walz run logo.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine the Williams Arena astatine Minges Coliseum connected the field of East Carolina University connected Oct. 13, 2024, successful Greenville, North Carolina. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"New Harris/Walz advertisement tells achromatic men that women volition cull them if they don’t vote," Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology President Richard Hanania remarked successful a station connected X on with a video of the ad. "Memorable and works arsenic an entreaty to self-interest."

But not each users were sold connected the contented of the ad, with immoderate arguing that the advertisement lone served to "insult" and "dehumanize" Black men.

"Democrats proceed to dehumanize and insult achromatic men and effort to shame and unit them into lone voting for them," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. "Kamala run doesn’t adjacent effort to prosecute respectfully."

"Does the Harris Walz squad truly judge this volition person anyone to ballot for them?" asked another.

"Belittling and insulting," different idiosyncratic added.

"I deliberation this mightiness person the other effect," 1 idiosyncratic quipped.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run lawsuit astatine Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, successful Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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The advertisement comes arsenic immoderate person begun to speculate that Harris is struggling to triumph implicit the enactment of young Black men, a typically dependable demographic of voters for Democrats.

According to 1 Howard University Initiative connected Public Opinion poll, 81% of Black men accidental they program to ballot for Harris, though that fig drops to 68% for Black men nether 50 years old, with 21% of that radical indicating they program to enactment erstwhile President Trump.

Former President Barack Obama has besides joined successful connected the caller entreaty to Black men, arguing astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania earlier this period that the radical should person the aforesaid enthusiasm for Harris arsenic they did for his campaigns successful 2008 and 2012.

"My understanding, based connected reports I'm getting from campaigns and communities, is that we person not yet seen the aforesaid kinds of vigor and turnout successful each quarters of our neighborhoods and communities arsenic we saw erstwhile I was running," Obama said astatine the time, adding that the deficiency of enthusiasm "seems to beryllium much pronounced with the brothers" and that they mightiness not privation to enactment a pistillate president.

Former President Barack Obama (Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"And you are reasoning astir sitting out?" helium said. "Part of it makes maine deliberation – and I'm speaking to men straight – portion of it makes maine deliberation that, well, you conscionable aren't feeling the thought of having a pistillate arsenic president, and you're coming up with different alternatives and different reasons for that."

The Harris run did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.

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