Fox News: Harris ad suggests Trump will send Asians back to interment camps

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Harris ad suggests Trump will send Asians back to interment camps

The Harris-Walz campaign is broadcasting a new TV and digital ad attacking former President Donald Trump by invoking the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate.......                    ...                        ...The Harris-Walz campaign rolled out a new TV and digital ad on Saturday invoking the internment You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate, comparing them to former President Donald Trump.......In the 30-second ad, titled "Our America," the Harris campaign accuses Trump of having an "outdated vision of America" that "has no place" for Asian Americans. ......The ad features symbols of American freedom, including the Constitution, purportedly "under attack You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and his extremist allies," the Harris campaign said in a news release.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The ad "alludes to moments when Asian Americans were denied their civil rights – such as the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit," the campaign said. ......"We have a choice between someone who wants unchecked power and has an outdated vision of America that has no place for us... Or a president who will respect all Americans, who will never view us as 'others,'" the narrator says. ......"Protect our democracy and our communities. Vote."......The ad features men, women and children of Asian descent, including a purported Iraq War veteran giving a salute. The video is appearing on television in battleground states as well as across an array of digital channels like Meta, Snap, YouTube and radio, the Harris-Walz campaign says.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sent around 117,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps, the majority of whom were American citizens. ......Roosevelt issued an executive order on Feb. 19 of that year, coming two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When the internees were taken to the camps, they could bring only what they could carry.......Nine of the camps were shut down by the end of 1945 following a Supreme Court decision, with the final camp closing in March 1946. ......Chin, 27, was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was fatally assaulted in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in a racially motivated assault by two White men following a fight at a strip club. Federal authorities said two autoworkers blamed Chin for layoffs at car factories due to Japanese imports. ......After Chin left the club, the two men tracked him down at a fast-food eatery and attacked him, authorities said. Chin later died at a hospital.......There was a sharp increase nationwide in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login with the onset of the pandemic and the ad seeks to link these attacks to Trump with #StopAsianHate posters being broadcast behind a group of children......."The choice for Asian American voters in this election couldn't be clearer. While Trump surrounds himself with loyalists to emulate the dictators he admires and intends to wield unchecked power to serve himself, Vice President Kamala Harris has only ever had one client: the people," Andrew Peng, the Harris-Walz 2024 Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander spokesperson said in the release.......The new ad comes as Harris ramps up her attacks on the former president, calling him "increasingly unhinged and unstable" as well as You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login....

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