The Trump campaign now hopes to tie Harris to Biden’s lowest moment: Afghanistan

Early Monday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement commemorating the deaths of 13 US service members in Afghanistan. Those service members died in a terror attack during the US withdrawal from the country.

It was a clear pre-emptive strike against Republicans. During the RNC, Republicans made a point of highlighting those deaths. They even invited loved ones of the fallen onstage to publicly blame Biden.

“I will never forget meeting many of them on a trip to Afghanistan as a US Senator,” Harris said in her Monday statement, during which she also listed the names of the dead. “These American service members possessed extraordinary skill, discipline, and dedication. I had then, and will always have, immense pride in their service and in the strength, courage, and excellence of the US military, the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.”

Former president Donald Trump’s campaign released a video about the service members’ deaths. “To this day, Kamala Harris has never mentioned these fallen soldiers' names,” the video stated — an out-of-date proclamation, considering Harris’s earlier words.

The video concluded on the message: “President Trump will never forget them.” The former president himself visited Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath on the graves of fallen service members later that morning.

At the same time, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress will posthumously award the 13 service members the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award Congress can bestow.

Certainly recognizing US service members who died while getting Americans and their allies out of a war zone as the Taliban took over is the least the US can do to honor their memories. But