The Harris campaign's television ads aimed at Black men during the presidential election "sucked," former Barack Obama adviser Van Jones said on Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by a wide margin earlier this week. While Harris still won a large majority of the Black vote, Black voters, and Black men in particular, were among several demographic groups that shifted substantially toward Trump this year.
While speaking on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Jones argued that the Democratic ticket had lost a significant amount of the Black male vote because the campaign did not "actually listen more and lecture less when it comes to African American men."
"The Kamala Harris campaign wound up spending a bunch of money on TV ads, and the TV ads sucked," Jones said. "They did not appeal to anyone."
Jones went on to say that Black men "were not handled properly" in comparison to women, immigrants and transgender people.
This is a developing story and will be updated with additional information.
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