Another Deceptive Trump Ad Attacks Harris Using Partial Quotes from News Outlets

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Less than a month after we wrote about a misleading ad that used out-of-context quotes to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on taxes, former President Donald Trump’s campaign has released another anti-Harris ad drawing from the same deceptive political playbook. This time, the campaign used distorted quotes from news outlets to criticize Harris on taxes, illegal immigration and other issues. For example, the ad shortens a CBS News headline from “Harris vows to keep Biden’s border crackdown” to “Harris vows to keep Biden’s border.” The ad also cites NBC News while making a claim about Harris providing “welfare for illegals,” even though that clipped quote comes from a 6-year-old opinion piece that never mentioned Harris. In addition, the ad reuses a truncated line from a New York Times article to falsely suggest that Harris seeks “to significantly raise taxes” on all Americans, when the newspaper said that her plan focuses on increasing taxes for very wealthy individuals and corporations — not people making less than $400,000 a year. That’s the same edited quote we wrote about in early October. Trump’s campaign began running the new 1-minute ad in several states...