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A conservative darkish cash group has fabricated a web site and digital advert marketing campaign that purport to share — however typically distort — insurance policies supported by Vice President Kamala Harris. Because the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has not proposed a gun buyback program or Medicare protection for immigrants dwelling within the U.S. illegally, opposite to the conservative group’s advertisements.
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A conservative darkish cash group has created a bogus web site, in addition to a social media and advert marketing campaign, known as Progress 2028 that, on its floor, seems to be led by Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign or allies. However Harris has not proposed many of the insurance policies the web site lays out, although she did assist a number of the insurance policies prior to now. Her marketing campaign had nothing to do with the creation of Mission 2028.
The highest of the Progress 2028 website states: “To: Individuals Prepared for Progress. Re: How we construct a sustainable engine of progressive change to hold us to 2028.” It purports that Harris is “main the best way” on a spread of coverage proposals and would implement them throughout her administration.
As reported by OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that follows cash in politics, Building America’s Future, a conservative nonprofit, registered Progress 2028 on Sept. 23 with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Based on the New York Times, Constructing America’s Future has raised tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} which were steered to teams and initiatives which have labored to elect former President Donald Trump for president.
Distortions of Harris’ Statements
The Progress 2028 web site and advertisements may simply be perceived as efforts of a progressive advocacy group that helps — and even speaks on behalf of — Harris’ marketing campaign.
Comedian-like ads on Instagram embrace a photograph of Harris with a heading that states: “Kamala’s plan to finish gun violence.” The advert additionally features a phrase bubble that claims: “Beneath Kamala Harris’s management, a nationwide gun buy-back program will take harmful weapons off our streets. Fewer weapons = fewer tragedies.” On the backside of the advert, it states: “Let’s prepare for the following section in Kamala’s daring progressive agenda.”
The advert leaves the misunderstanding that Harris helps a gun buyback program in her 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Harris did assist a compulsory buyback program for so-called assault weapons as an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination through the 2020 marketing campaign, as we’ve written. She has known as for a ban on the acquisition of sure semiautomatic weapons as the present Democratic nominee for president, however her marketing campaign informed us she now not helps requiring Individuals to surrender weapons already legally bought.
A equally deceptive ad on Facebook says: “Beneath Kamala’s management, undocumented immigrants will now not be left behind relating to essential Medicare entry.” In a phrase bubble subsequent to a photograph of Harris, the advert says: “Healthcare standing shouldn’t rely in your immigration standing. Kamala Harris will combat to increase Medicare for undocumented immigrants, making certain a more healthy America for all.”
(A different version of the Medicare advert is working on Fb and Instagram. All the Progress 2028 ads will be discovered within the Meta advert library.)
As with the anti-gun advert, Progress 2028 is referring to one among Harris’ positions from the 2020 marketing campaign.
Throughout an NBC Information presidential major debate in 2019, Harris raised her hand when a moderator requested the candidates if their well being care plans would offer protection for immigrants who’re within the nation illegally. When requested throughout a 2019 interview whether or not a proposed Medicare for All invoice ought to cowl these immigrants, Harris mentioned she was “against any coverage that may deny in our nation any human being from entry to public security, public training, or public well being.”
However, as we wrote in August, the Harris marketing campaign informed us she “is not going to push Medicare for All as President.” And, as reported by KFF Well being Information and PolitiFact, Harris has not acknowledged whether or not she would offer sponsored or free well being protection to these dwelling within the nation illegally.
Final 12 months, as governor of Minnesota, Harris’ working mate, Tim Walz, signed legislation permitting low-income immigrants in his state who’re dwelling within the nation illegally to obtain a health plan by a state program. Throughout an Oct. 6 interview on “Fox Information Sunday” about that vote, Walz mentioned, “Properly, that’s not the vice chairman’s place.”
One other Progress 2028 put up on Facebook on Oct. 28 included an NBC Information headline that reads: “Decide blocks Virginia from dropping alleged noncitizens from voter rolls.” Above it, the message says: “Did you see the information? The Biden-Harris DOJ efficiently challenged Virginia’s ‘non-citizen’ voter elimination program and gained!,” misleadingly including, “This ensures that no undocumented immigrant is unjustly stripped from voter rolls.”
A U.S. District Court docket decide on Oct. 25 did block a Virginia program that aimed to take away alleged noncitizens from the voter rolls. However the Attorneys’ Committee for Civil Rights Beneath Legislation, which sued the state, argued “eligible voters” have been “wrongfully purged from the voter rolls” by this system. The U.S. Supreme Court docket ruled on Oct. 30 that Virginia may proceed its elimination of about 1,600 individuals from its voter rolls.
As we have written, a 1996 law bars noncitizens from voting in federal elections — though some jurisdictions equivalent to San Francisco do permit noncitizens to vote in sure native elections.
We discovered no proof that Harris helps permitting undocumented immigrants to vote in federal elections.
Proof of noncitizens voting in federal elections is extraordinarily uncommon. The Bipartisan Coverage Middle’s review of cases compiled by the Heritage Foundation discovered simply 77 circumstances between 1999 and 2023 of noncitizens voting.
However Trump has repeatedly made false claims that the 2020 election was rigged as a consequence of voter fraud and noncitizens voting, although his personal aides, together with his legal professional basic, told him his claims have been baseless. Trump and different Republicans have continued to push the baseless declare that noncitizens will likely be voting on this 12 months’s election.
The Darkish Cash Group Behind the Adverts
Darkish cash teams, equivalent to Constructing America’s Future, are nonprofits created to affect political outcomes however are typically beneath no authorized obligation to disclose the identification of the donors who fund them, as explained by OpenSecrets.
A pair of political motion committees, Responsibility to America PAC and Future Coalition PAC, as an example, have used Constructing America’s Future funding to attempt to persuade sure demographic teams, equivalent to youthful males, Muslim Individuals and Black voters, to assist Trump as a substitute of Harris, the New York Times reported.
Constructing America’s Future has hosted talking occasions for Republican candidates, together with Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick, and it hosted a roundtable on Oct. 29 within the Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill for Trump.
Based on OpenSecrets, the Progress 2028 web site seems to be created on Sept. 23 by IMGE LLC, a Washington, D.C., agency run by Republican political operatives. IMGE President Ethan Eilon, a former senior strategist for the Republican Nationwide Committee, and senior companion Phil Cox, a former govt director of the Republican Governors Affiliation, are additionally leaders of Constructing America’s Future, the New York Times reported.
Constructing America’s Future has acquired greater than $100 million in funding from Republican donors over the previous 4 years, the Times reported, citing individuals briefed on the group’s work. That features Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has actively been stumping for Trump at marketing campaign rallies and on social media in current months. The billionaire has publicly highlighted the work of one other conservative group, Honest Election Fund, that has acquired funding from Constructing America’s Future, the Instances reported.
Constructing America’s Future also gave $43 million in 2022 to Residents for Sanity, one other conservative group linked to Stephen Miller, Trump’s former senior coverage adviser, the Wall Avenue Journal reported, primarily based on 2022 tax filings. Residents for Sanity ran anti-Democratic advertisements forward of the 2022 midterm elections. That cash was given to Constructing America’s Future by Musk, the Wall Avenue Journal added, citing individuals conversant in the matter. Based on a New York Instances evaluation of its tax filings, Constructing America’s Future raised, in complete, $11 million in 2021 and $53 million in 2022.
In accordance to OpenSecrets, Musk has additionally donated greater than $118 million to a different pro-Trump tremendous PAC, America PAC. Because it was based in Might, America PAC has spent more than $163 million, as of Nov. 1, attacking Democrats and supporting Republicans through the run-up to the Nov. 5 election.
America PAC additionally not too long ago launched a contest that offers $1 million day by day to registered voters in seven swing states who signal a petition supporting free speech and gun rights. The giveaway has been scrutinized by the Justice Division as doubtlessly unlawful, and the Philadelphia district legal professional filed a lawsuit in opposition to the PAC, claiming it’s an illegal lottery.
We requested Constructing America’s Future and Progress 2028 for remark in regards to the web site and advertisements, however they didn’t reply.
The Harris marketing campaign wouldn’t touch upon particular claims on the Progress 2028 web site and digital advertisements, however a marketing campaign aide informed us in a press release: “Trump is so broken by his Mission 2025 agenda that he and his backers have resorted to pushing this determined and pathetic mislead deceive voters.”
Mission 2025 is a conservative coverage initiative that Harris and Democrats have referred to as “Trump’s Mission 2025 agenda.” However it isn’t a Trump marketing campaign doc.
The Heritage Basis, with more than 100 other conservative organizations, created Mission 2025, as we’ve written, to offer a roadmap for the following conservative president to basically reshape the federal authorities. A few of the authors are former Cupboard secretaries beneath Trump, and others from the Trump administration had a job within the venture.
Trump has tried to distance himself from it, saying he disagrees with the doc “in lots of circumstances.”
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