In campaign video, Kamala Harris slams JD Vance’s ties to Project 2025

Before Republicans introduce JD Vance to the nation, Vice President Kamala Harris has her own message about her GOP counterpart. In a campaign video, Harris called the U.S. Senator a “rubber stamp” for Donald Trump’s agenda.

“Make no mistake,” Harris says directly to the camera, “J.D. Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”

Trump, the Republican nominee for President, announced Vance as his running mate as the Republican National Convention (RNC). The Ohio Republican will address the RNC Wednesday night, a day before Trump closes out the convention with his own address.

Harris and Vance will face one another later this year at a vice presidential debate. But Harris is already tossing rhetorical punches at the candidate looking to replace her as Vice President.

“Donald Trump has picked his new running mate: JD Vance,” she said in the video. “Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda.”

The video was shot vertically, suggesting the campaign wants primarily to reach voters on digital platforms, where that format is more popular. She attacked his rhetoric over his two years in the Senate. She also attacked his support of the controversial Project 2025 agenda, a conservative think tank product from which Trump has tried to distance himself but which was crafted by groups closely tied to Trump and Vance.

“He supports a national abortion ban and voted against protecting IVF,” Harris said in her video. “And if elected, he will help implement the extreme Project 2025 plan for a second Trump term, which would target critical programs like Head Start and Medicare. But we are not going to let that happen.”

She also pounced on statements Vance made in February to ABC News. In an interview with “This Week,” he told anchor George Stephanopoulos that if he were Vice President after the 2020 election, he would have “told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.”

That’s not what Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President at the time, did. Pence, based on legal advice, said he had no role but to accept slates of electors already certified by the states.

“Unlike Mike Pence, Vance said he would have carried out Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election,” Harris said in her video.