>>105730234Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also praised the commercial. "The most effective ad that the Trump campaign ran in this campaign was, you know, 'Kamala Harris is for they/them, and Donald Trump is for us.' That's because most people don't see themselves as they/them. Yet, the Democrats have spent more time talking about a trans issue, which, quite frankly, is infinitesimal."[21]
Minnesota Governor and Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, responded: "They're running millions of dollars of ads demonizing folks who are just trying to live their lives."[22]
Sarah McBride, who is the first openly transgender member of Congress and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2024, said of the ads: "It wasn't the surgery point, it wasn't the undocumented-immigrant point, it wasn't the trans point, it was the concept in that line that Kamala Harris, according to the ad, was for a small group of people, and Donald Trump was there for 'you'."[23]
In the first episode of his podcast, This is Gavin Newsom, Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom agreed with his first guest, conservative activist Charlie Kirk that "Kamala is for they/them" was the most politically harmful attack ad against Harris. "She didn't even react to it, which was even more devastating," Newsom said. He added that "it was a great ad."[24]