Good morning, everyone. I'm playbook co-author, Ryan Lizza. It's Thursday, July 25th, and here's what's

driving the day. There is some angst among Democratic strategists who want the Kamala Harris

campaign to start spending some of that $100 million it raised over the last few days.

The Harris campaign has not gone up on the air with any ads yet, introducing the vice

president, and the race is on to define her.

Donald Trump spent a good part of his rally yesterday, attacking Harris as, quote,

the ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe, and a

radical left lunatic who will destroy our country, among many other things.

Part of the problem in the Harris campaign has been that the campaign's ad-making operation

under Mike Donnellin, as you know, he's the president's long-time close advisor

who moved over from the White House to the campaign to run things. Well, that operation has not

been reorganized for the new candidate, especially as Donnellan steps away from that senior role

in the campaign to some undefined role going forward.

So the House campaign has been caught without its ad-making operation up and running.

They tell us that they started filming the vice president at her Tuesday rally for some ads,

and this is some news this morning.

They are in talks with admaker Jim Margolis to make ads for the campaign.

Margolis played the same role in Harris's 2020 presidential campaign. In addition, this morning

at 7 a.m., the Harris campaign will release its official campaign launch video. That is embargoed

for 7 a.m. We've had a look at it, but I can't talk about it

until later. Paris campaign official told Playbook, we're working to get up ads as quickly as we

can, though it's only been three days. And in the meantime, she's dominating earned media.

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