Harris for President out with first official campaign video: 'We Choose Freedom'

WASHINGTON (TND) — Less than four full days after becoming a presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris is out with her first official campaign video. The 79-second spot, which will air across campaign and social media platforms, seeks to define her bid for the White House with one word: freedom.

What kind of country do we want to live in?" Harris narrates in the video. "There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos. Of fear. Of hate. But us. We choose something different. We choose freedom. The freedom not just to get by, but get ahead. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to make decisions about your own body."

The video features clips from her first rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday, scenes of working-class Americans and what's quickly become her campaign theme song, "Freedom" by Beyoncé.

Former President Donald Trump's mugshot and newspaper clippings about his indictments and conviction also appear in the video; Harris has made clear her intention to contrast her record as a prosecutor with her opponent's recent status as a convicted felon.

"Before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned, of California and before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type," Harris told campaign staff Monday.

Trump and his new running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, have also launched fresh attacks against Harris in an effort to brand her as extreme, releasing an ad on Thursday calling Harris a "San Francisco liberal."

She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country," Trump said at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday.

A week and a half after surviving an assassination attempt and calling for national unity, Trump backtracked.

"You know, I was supposed to be nice. They say something happened to me when I got shot, I became nice. And when you're dealing with these people, they're very dangerous people. When you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice. You really can't be. So, if you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice," Trump said.

A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS on Monday and Tuesday shows no clear leader in a Trump versus Harris matchup but shows Harris performing better than President Joe Biden did with women, Black voters, and young voters.