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The Conservative leader has focused more on voters disaffected by what he calls a "Lost Liberal decade", promising change from a government he blames for the housing shortage and a sluggish economy, and for mishandling social issues like crime and the fentanyl crisis.

"This is just a small example of what China has done to the USA, for years," he added, before repeating accusations that synthetic opioid fentanyl "continues to pour into our country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our people".

Trump had implemented tariffs on China before his April announcement, levying 20% on Chinese imports over the country’s role in producing precursor chemicals that play a major role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis.

China retaliated, prompting Trump to increase tariffs on China to 145%, including the 20% figure applied over fentanyl.

The commercial, whose 60-second version features images of migrants running across the border, a bag of what appears to be cocaine or fentanyl and a barrage of police headshots of Latino, Black and Asian men, has sparked an outcry in Mexico.