The size of his audience is important to Donald Trump. Kamala Harris has known this since the TV duel – and is exploiting the issue for the election campaign.
Washington DC – Also the team from Kamala Harris is hanging out on Truth Social during the election campaign. On the social platform, the Donald Trump once founded, they took care of it Democrats on Thursday caused a stir. The vice president’s campaign shared a video there that showed a half-filled venue at Trump’s campaign appearance. The video was completed by a recording of Donald Trump asking rhetorically: “Who else fills a hall like this at 3 o’clock in the afternoon?”
According to a report by the news portal Newsweek, the recording of Donald Trump comes from Saginaw Valley State University, which is located about two hours north of Detroit in the US state of Michigan. Michigan is considered one of the few swing states that all polls show US election should decide.
Kamala Harris jokes about Donald Trump: “Lies vs. reality”
That’s why Donald Trump campaigned there for votes, but the university gymnasium was only half full. However, the audience present was cleverly positioned on one side, while large areas behind the lighting and audio equipment remained empty. The Harris campaign account captioned the video: “Lies vs. reality.”
The video sparked a number of reactions from both Donald Trump supporters and Kamala Harris’s camp. While supporters of the republican In comments under the video they dismissed the portrayal as unfair, Democratic supporters celebrated the video as evidence of Trump’s narcissism and megalomania.
Rallies are an important campaign tool for Donald Tump
It has long been known that Donald Trump has an ambivalent relationship with the size of his audience. After his inauguration in Washington DC in 2017, the new president boasted that he had drawn a larger crowd to the capital than civil rights activist Martin Luther King, among others New York Times reported. However, aerial photos of the event showed that significantly more people were present when his predecessor Barack Obama attended. A government photographer then manipulated the photos, like the British one Guardian reported.
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For Donald Trump, the rallies are the most important tool in the election campaign even before this US election. The importance is correspondingly high. But an investigation of the New York Times from last year already proved that the Republican candidate had similar viewership to Kamala Harris at his events.
Kamala Harris finds Donald Trump’s sore point
The fact that Kamala Harris jokes about Donald Trump’s audience size in the video on Truth Social could also be due to his behavior during the TV duel between the two. The Democratic candidate already had doubts about Trump’s audience numbers there. The ex-president reacted thinly and allowed himself to be distracted from the actual topic.
Harris is probably of the opinion that he has found a sore spot. Pressing the could in an election that according to current surveys could be extremely close. (dil)
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