Donald Trump Stews As Kamala Harris Draws Huge Crowds On Campaign Trail
Donald Trump doesn’t seem very happy about the enthusiasm and media coverage Kamala Harris has received this week after announcing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate.
In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained about the coverage of crowds at Harris’ rallies in Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan, which appear to have vastly outnumbered his and even inspired comparisons to Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential run.
“If Kamala has 1,000 people at a Rally, the Press goes ‘crazy,’ and talks about how ‘big’ it was — And she pays for her ‘Crowd,‘” Trump said on Thursday, falsely accusing Harris’ campaign of paying attendees to show up to the events.
“When I have a Rally, and 100,000 people show up, the Fake News doesn’t talk about it, THEY REFUSE TO MENTION CROWD SIZE. The Fake News is the Enemy of the People!” he added.
On Wednesday night, Harris and Walz drew a crowd of 15,000 people in Detroit, the campaign’s largest rally to date. Organizers of the event moved it to an airport hangar because of the large number of requests for tickets ― nearly 50,000.
The Democratic running mates arrived at the rally aboard Air Force Two, the vice president’s plane, in a dramatic entrance reminiscent of those Trump staged in airplane hangars during his winning 2016 presidential campaign.
In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, earlier in the day, Harris and Walz drew over 10,000 attendees at another rally that signaled surging enthusiasm for their White House bid. Long lines of cars and people stretched for miles before the event was scheduled to begin.
And in Atlanta on Tuesday, Harris’ first joint event with Walz since announcing the Minnesota governor as her running mate, the campaign packed