Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign will air a television advertisement slamming former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion during a Fox News town-hall event on Wednesday in which he will take questions from an all-female audience.
The ad features Hadley Duvall, a woman from Kentucky, telling a harrowing story of being sexually assaulted and impregnated by her stepfather at the age of 12. She later miscarried.
“I was a child. I didn’t know what it meant to be pregnant at all. But I had options,” Ms. Duvall says in the ad. “Because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, girls and women all over the country have lost the right to choose, even for rape or incest.”
She adds: “Donald Trump did this. He took away our freedom.”
Abortion has been one of the most potent electoral issues for Democrats since Supreme Court justices appointed by Mr. Trump helped overturn Roe. Polling shows the issue is a strength for Ms. Harris, who has built a commanding lead with female voters: A recent New York Times/Siena College national poll of likely voters showed her ahead by 56 percent to 40 percent. Mr. Trump is doing better with men.
Mr. Trump’s town hall airs at 11 a.m. and will be moderated by the Fox News host Harris Faulkner.
Source: Elections - nytimes.com
