The Harris campaign had a perfect response to Trump’s press conference, which became increasingly serious as he spoke.
Trump calls it a press conferencebut the event he held was an act of political implosion.
The Harris campaign issued the following statement after Trump’s performance:
Donald Trump Take a break, put on your pants and have a public meltdown party.
We have a lot to say about this. Here are some initial thoughts – more to come.
He has been absent from the campaign trail all week. He won’t be traveling to any swing states this week. But he did piss off Kamala Harris Tim Walz draws huge crowds to the battlefield.
In this afternoon’s meltdown at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, the facts are harder to track and even harder to find.
He lied. He attacks the media. He made excuses for withdrawing from the campaign.
We are here to help as his staff clearly are not.
But first, an important reminder of the question The Donald didn’t answer: How he would vote on Florida’s abortion referendum. (He has been avoiding the issue since April.)
We work to establish reality so that Donald Trump (God bless his heart) doesn’t have to do this. Here are the facts:
Yesterday there were 12,000 in Wisconsin and 15,000 in Michigan (not 2,000.)
The ABC debate will be held on September 10th. Not the 25th.
People spoke to larger crowds than Donald Trump. (Obama, Clinton, pretty much anyone at Lollapalooza, Coachella, the World Cup…)
January 6th is obviously not the same as MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. On that historic day, Trump did not have more supporters than Martin Luther King.
As we all know, there was no “peaceful transfer of power” after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump fought so hard to overturn. (As everyone knows.)
On January 6, five police officers died.
Donald Trump says he won’t be campaigning this week because of the Democratic National Convention. (The conference will not be held this week.)
Trump said their advertising is unmatched. (He spent significantly more than that on television broadcasts.)
Governor Josh Shapiro is actually a great man.
Tom Homan, the author of “Project 2025” and the “father” of Trump’s cruel child separation policy, is not a man who deserves praise.
Jews should not be “censored” for not supporting him. (This is actually anti-Semitic.)
Trump said he had no complaints. In fact he is.
Trump doesn’t know the difference between an asylum seeker and an asylum.
Donald Trump doesn’t “cherish” the Constitution.
Abortion is not an “unimportant issue” for voters. It is not “suppressed”. This is not a “small issue” for voters, no matter how much Donald Trump would like it to be.
Donald Trump didn’t answer the abortion question well “in the debate.”
Everyone doesn’t want Roe v. Wade to be overturned. The American people do not support states that ban abortion.
Postpartum abortion does not exist.
Minnesota and Virginia are different. one
Donald Trump doesn’t know what progress means.
Kamala Harris doesn’t want to take away everyone’s guns. Tim Walz is a gun owner.
Vice President Harris does not support an arms embargo on Israel.
Donald Trump can’t remember Tim Walz’s name.
Donald Trump’s tax cuts aren’t the biggest in history.
We don’t know what it means for trans people to matter.
Donald Trump will cut Social Security — just as he has proposed every year in office.
The government is not weaponized against Trump and Steve Bannon.
Mail-in ballots are secure.
We agree – Elon is a different type of guy.
There are no polls that show Donald Trump will win in a landslide.
MAGA bases do not make up 75% of the country.
Sometimes campaigns can’t help themselves, and they lack the discipline to take a step back and allow their opponents to self-destruct.
For the Harris-Walz campaign, that’s not a problem. They will not engage in the insult game or tit-for-tat game that Trump is so fond of.
Donald Trump has been in trouble politically since President Joe Biden Vice President Harris stepped aside and joined the campaign. The moment the Democratic coalition coalesced around Harris, the nation’s political center of gravity shifted, and Trump has been on a holiday retreat ever since.
The press conference was an attempt by a desperate candidate to regain momentum. Kamala Harris might make the mistake of joining Trump’s fray and getting down to his level.
She didn’t.
Donald Trump is drowning and Harris won’t save him.
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