President Biden’s reelection campaign released its first ad hitting Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former President Trump’s running mate, over his stance on abortion.
The one-minute ad, titled “They Don’t Care,” was narrated by a Kentucky woman, Hadley Duvall, who was raped starting at 5 years old by her stepfather and got pregnant at 12 years old.
“First thing that was told to me when I saw that positive pregnancy test was, you have options,” Duvall says in the ad. “And, if Roe v. Wade would have been overturned sooner, I wouldn’t have heard that and then it had me thinking, there’s someone who doesn’t get to hear that now.”
“Trump and JD Vance don’t care about women, they don’t care about girls in this situation,” she added.
The campaign plans to run the ad, which will receive a seven-figure investment, across battleground states and will place it during the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday, “60 Minutes,” “The Bachelorette,” and pre-Olympics coverage.
The Biden campaign has highlighted Vance’s stance on abortion since Trump named him as his vice president on Monday, calling him “proudly anti-choice.”
Vance has applauded the overturning of Roe v. Wade and supported Texas’s ban on abortion, which does not allow exceptions other than in cases where the mother’s life is at risk. He said in 2021 that “two wrongs don’t make a right” when asked if there should be exceptions for rape and incest.
But, he has started to reshape how he talks about abortion in recent weeks, echoing Trump’s position that abortion laws should be left to the states in the wake of Roe v. Wade during overturned.
Vice President Harris, who has been the leading voice out of the White House on reproductive rights, went after Vance in a video published Wednesday over his support for abortion restrictions.
Vance is set to deliver the keynote address Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
