Biden Campaign Drops Scathing New Ad After State of the Union Featuring Images of Trump and the KKK

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The Biden-Harris campaign released a new ad on Friday following President Joe Biden’s well-received State of the Union address — and it was anything but subtle.

The ad, which was posted to social media including Twitter/X, juxtaposed images of the Ku Klux Klan with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., immediately followed by Biden in footage from the speech and an image of the GOP’s presumptive nominee, former President Donald Trump, as this line from Thursday’s speech played behind it:

Again and again, I’ve seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation.

You can watch the full ad here:

New ad just dropped 🔥 pic.twitter.com/vXJy19jZvc

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 8, 2024

Without using Trump’s name, and addressing concerns about his own age, Biden stated: “This issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are. It’s how old are our ideas. Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are the oldest of ideas.” That line accompanied images of 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which saw a massive and deadly gathering of white supremacists, and the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol were shown, as well as photos of Trump on the golf course and another of him standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin and smiling.

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