Washington, D.C.– As Trump continues to spread misinformation and duck questions about climate in North Carolina, LCV Victory Fund launched a new $1 million ad that spotlights the damage that will be caused by increasingly strong hurricanes, while contrasting Trump’s climate denialism versus Harris’ commitment to fight to protect our children’s future. New polling from the Data for Progress shows that voters trust Harris over Trump to handle extreme weather disasters. The digital ad will run in North Carolina and Georgia and is designed to engage young women across both states in the final two weeks of the election. This ad is a part of the LCV Victory Fund’s $155 million investment in the 2024 election cycle and comes as Trump is currently campaigning in North Carolina and as North Carolina and Georgia continue to recover from the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

WATCH: Her Name

Script below 

In “Her Name,” the ad contrasts images of disaster with names of storms and uses footage of newborns to convey the threats of the climate crisis on future generations. The narrator poses the question: what will be the name of the storm that most impacts her life? The ad continues on to elevate how former President Trump has referred to climate change as a “hoax” while showing footage of flooding caused by a storm and later highlights how Kamala Harris will protect our future. 

During a press conference in North Carolina on Hurricane Helene yesterday, Trump continued to spread misinformation by stating that air and water in the United States were the “cleanest” while he was in office. Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental protections, including the Clean Power Plan, which would have cut SO2 pollution from power plants by 90%, cut NOx pollution by 72%, prevented 4,500 premature deaths, and delivered over $50 billion in health savings per year in 2030. 

“These extreme weather disasters have put a tragic exclamation point on the stakes of this election,” said Pete Maysmith, Senior Vice President of Campaigns at LCV Victory Fund. “In the final 14 days of the election, voters are getting turned off by Donald Trump’s continued denial of  the realities of climate change and his lies about the government’s response to Hurricane Helene. This ad shows voters that there is only one candidate in this race who will look out for them and their families and work to tackle the climate crisis and that’s Kamala Harris.”

Despite scientists asserting that the recent extreme weather across the country including– Hurricane Helene– is a symptom of the impacts of climate change pollution, Trump has continued to not only deny climate change but also cozy up to Big Oil. Notably, just days after former President Trump visited Georgia in a campaign stunt to assess the damage of climate change fueled Hurricane Helene, he traveled to Texas to fundraise with Big Oil. In May, Trump asked Big Oil executives for $1 billion to support his campaign and in exchange promised to scrap the climate progress made by the Biden-Harris Administration and has repeatedly vowed that he would be a dictator for one day to “drill, drill, drill.”  According to The Guardian, Big Oil has already given $14.1 million to Trump’s presidential campaign.

In contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris is a career-long climate champion who cast the tie-breaking vote that passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act. As Vice President, she has helped to build a clean energy economy that is lowering costs, creating high-paying family sustaining jobs, and protecting access to clean air and water for families across the country. During her time in the Senate and as an Attorney General, Harris was an early champion of clean buses, supported environmental justice initiatives and stood up to Big Oil.

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WATCH: Her Name 

Amelia?

Audrey?

Emma?

What will be the name of the storm that most impacts her life?

Will it destroy her home? 

Devastate her community?

Donald Trump doesn’t believe in climate change 

We need leader with a plan to protect us

Her name is Kamala

Paid for by LCV Victory Fund, www.lcvvictoryfund.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.