Former Trump advisers become central part of Harris campaign attacks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "What is the very, very narrow group of people who couldn't decide after having Trump on the national stage for a decade?
48% : "Every which way, the people who used to work with Trump, who are Republicans and the military and security messengers, it always rises to the top," said Molly Murphy, one of Harris's pollsters.
48% : An August Washington Post survey found that only 24 of the 42 people who served as Cabinet-level officials under Trump had endorsed his reelection.
47% : They were in the Situation Room with Trump.
43% : Much of her argument, she said, is to convince people who are surrounded by Republicans - and traditionally view themselves as conservatives - that they really don't want four more years of Trump.
42% : A Fox News host asked Trump on Friday if Haley would campaign for him.
38% : In addition to the senior advisers who have broken with Trump, the campaign has deployed lower-ranking officials and Republican politicians as surrogates across battleground states.
36% : "Milley - the former top military officer who gave a speech in 2023 denouncing the "wannabe dictator" that was clearly directed at Trump - was recently quoted in a book by the journalist Bob Woodward calling the former president "fascist to the core" and "the most dangerous person to this country."
36% : Barr, who once compared voting for Trump to "playing Russian roulette with the country," endorsed Trump's reelection in April.
33% : She spent more advertising on that message than any other topic, including abortion, her own biography, policy attacks on Trump or the economy, according to the AdImpact tracking firm.
30% : "This attempt to appeal to the tiny sliver of remaining persuadable or undecided voters follows a pattern that Democrats have deployed in previous elections with mixed success against Trump.
25% : "Trump often gets frustrated by public criticism from his former advisers and has told donors his biggest regret in his first term is his personnel choices.
21% : Recent public research by Blueprint, a Democratic polling operation funded by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, found the Republican critique of Trump to be the most effective of 12 tested messages this month.
21% : She was a sharp critic of Trump's during the nomination fight, calling him "unhinged" and "diminished."
18% : Pence, who has declined to say how he will vote, is quoted in Harris ads saying he cannot endorse Trump because the former president attempted to put himself above the Constitution after the 2020 election by stopping the certification of electoral votes.
15% : Kelly believes Trump is unfit to be president and has long expressed those views, but grew frustrated that his public comments have not moved the needle.
11% : "Sarah Matthews, a former Trump spokeswoman who quit on Jan. 6 and is now campaigning against Trump, has also been traveling with the Harris campaign.
10% : One digital ad running in that state, which was recently battered by a hurricane, shows two former Trump administration officials discussing how Trump handled disaster response during his presidency, including one incident in which he resisted providing support for forest fires in California for political reasons, causing advisers to prepare a briefing showing how many Californians voted for him.
8% : The Harris ads show clips from Bolton's statements on CNN that Trump will cause "a lot of damage" if reelected and that "the only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.
4% : Hillary Clinton in 2016 invested heavily in fall ads highlighting offensive things Trump had said over images of children watching television or young girls looking in the mirror.

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