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has taken his obsession with the large crowds that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing at her rallies to new heights, falsely declaring in a series of social media posts Sunday that she had used artificial intelligence to create images and videos of fake crowds.
The crowds at Harris’ events, including one in Detroit outside an airplane hangar, were witnessed by thousands of people and news outlets, including The New York Times, and the number of attendees claimed by her campaign is in line with what was visible on the ground. Trump falsely wrote on his social media site, Truth Social, that “there was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it.”
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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Trump has struggled to find his political footing in the weeks since President Joe Biden decided to step aside and Harris replaced him atop the Democratic ticket: Trump questioned Harris’ racial identity at a conference for Black journalists, he later attacked Brian Kemp, the popular Republican governor in the key swing state of Georgia, and he has seen new polling that puts him behind Harris in several key states.
The Harris campaign has begun to mock Trump for his frustration over her crowds, one of which, it said, topped 15,000 people at an event in the Phoenix area on Friday.
“It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes...
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