Harris-Trump Live: Ex-President Rails Against Reports Of His Crowd Size In Rambling Press Conference
The Harris-Walz campaign is beginning to pull ahead in national polls
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Presumably jealous of Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers and domination of the news cycle, Donald Trump called a “general news conference” at Mar-a-Lago today without giving away what the focus of the event would be.
While Trump snatched a two-point lead in a CNBC poll, the numbers are otherwise going Kamala Harris’s way. The latest poll from Marquette University shows Harris leading by between four and eight percentage points.
On the campaign trail at a 15,000-strong rally in Detroit on Wednesday, Harris shut down a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators trying to interrupt her speech, saying: “If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
Meanwhile, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has attacked his Democratic counterpart Tim Walz over his 24 years of military service, accusing the Minnesota Governor of leaving the Army National Guard in 2005 to run for Congress as a means of ducking out of deployment to Iraq.
Vance, also a veteran, further accused Walz of lying about serving in a combat zone as part of the Donald Trump campaign’s efforts to attack the Midwesterner as an out-of-touch but extreme liberal.
1723143600Watch: Trump says Harris doesn’t know how to do a press conferenceOliver O’Connell8 August 2024 20:00
1723143484Recap: Both Trump and Harris confirmed for ABC debate on September 10In among everything he said at this rambling press conference, Donald Trump announced he has accepted the invitation from ABC News to debate Kamala Harris on September 10.
The former president also claimed he has agreed debates with Fox News and NBC News on September 4 and September 25 respectively.
The Harris campaign has not agreed to the other two.
Oliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:58
1723143110Watch: Trump repeats lie about post-birth abortionOliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:51
1723142833Gov Josh Shapiro responds to Trump press conference in realtimeOliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:47
1723142568Watch: Trump gets back on crowd size… a claims he had more people than MLK JrOliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:42
1723142438Trump asked why he’s not on the campaign trailOliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:40
1723142303Watch: Trump claims there was peaceful transfer of power in 2020Oliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:38
1723141948Trump gets worked up over crowd sizesDonald Trump got especially worked up when the topic turned to Kamala Harris’s rally crowd sizes.
“She gets 1500 people…” he says at one point.
In reality, Harris and Tim Walz had 12,000 people in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and 15,000 in Detroit, Michigan, yesterday.
Oliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:32
1723141565Watch: Trump talks demographics of electionAsking about where he is attracting votes demographically, Donald Trump says:
“I seem to be doing very well with Black males.”
“It’s possible that I won’t do as well with Black women.”
“Extremely well with Hispanic; Jewish voters, way up; White males, way up, White males have gone through the roof.”
Oliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:26
1723141466Trump says he hasn’t ‘recalibrated strategy’ since Harris took over ticketAsked if he has recalibrated his strategy since Kamala Harris took over at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket, Donald Trump says: “I haven’t recalibrated strategy at all.”
Oliver O’Connell8 August 2024 19:24
