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Kamala Harris stumbles in the Rust Belt; Trump tours the devastation caused by the hurricane

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Kamala Harris stumbles in the Rust Belt; Trump tours the devastation caused by the hurricane

The Democratic National Committee is launching a new ad today highlighting former Ku Klux Klan leader David's Duke's recent endorsement of third-party candidate Jill Stein.

The DNC has warned that the Green Party candidate will be a “spoiler candidate” in some swing states, as she was for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The spot, titled “Company They Keep,” will air in the battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as on cable channels across the country, according to a DNC official who first shared the details with NBC News.

When Duke endorsed Stein last week, he said he was thinking about what was “good for the white people, the Europeans,” ultimately calling it one of the “most important statements” he made politically.

“We had no idea and are not at all interested in supporting David Duke,” Stein's campaign manager told NBC.

“You can tell a lot about a person based on the company they are in,” the ad says. “Longtime Klan leader David Duke supported them. And like Trump, she has become accustomed to Vladimir Putin. Jill Stone. Look at your friends, because a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that Russian social media efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election also included messages in support of Stein.

“Jill Stein, David Duke and Vladimir Putin may be strange bedfellows, but they all have a common goal – defeating Vice President Harris and putting Donald Trump back in the White House,” DNC senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill said in a statement to NBC. “This time, Trump and his MAGA allies are openly supporting them. Don’t let a former KKK leader and a Russian dictator fool you – a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

Stein has previously called it a “badge of honor” to be partly responsible for Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Trump, for his part, said of Stein this summer: “I like her a lot.”

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