The Harris campaign released a series of new ads today targeting battleground state voters featuring Wisconsin farmer Tina Hinchley, who denounced Trump over his efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act, which she credits with saving her life.
“It saved my life and my business,” Hinchley says in one of the ads, saying that she survived a brain tumor and breast cancer and now has coverage because of Obamacare. “Donald Trump says he wants to kill the Affordable Care Act. He doesn’t care what that would mean for families like mine.”
Hinchley, a dairy farmer, said in the same ad that Trump “only cares about himself” and said that before Obamacare, she could have lost her life, her farm and her family.
In another ad, Hinchley said that back in 2006 while she was milking cows, she had a headache and black spots in her vision that turned out to be the effects of a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit.
“Back then, most farmers didn’t have health insurance. You try to figure out, what are you going to do to pay these bills?” she says in the ad. “2013 my brain tumor comes back, and I’m also diagnosed with breast cancer, but now the Affordable Care Act has been passed, and now I have coverage.”
In the third ad, Hinchley says it cost $187,000 to remove the tumor and said, “Trump is coming for our health care. That’s pretty damn scary.”
The Harris campaign said that the ads are part of a $370 million fall paid media campaign targeting voters in swing states. It said they will air nationally on shows such as “Survivor,” “Dancing with the Stars” and the “60 Minutes” election special airing Monday on CBS.
