Donald Trump shines as Kamala Harris draws huge crowds on the campaign trail

Donald Trump doesn’t seem too happy about the excitement and media coverage of Kamala Harris this week after announcing the governorship of Minnesota. Tim Walz as his vice presidential candidate.

In a post on social media site Truth Social, Trump complained about the crowds seen at Harris’ rallies in Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan, which appear to have greatly outnumbered his and even inspired comparisons Barack Obamahistoric 2008 presidential candidate.

“If Kamala has 1,000 people at a rally, the press will go ‘crazy’ and talk about how ‘big’ it was – And he’s paying for his ‘crowd,'” Trump said Thursday, accusing the Harris campaign of paying attendees to appear at the events.

“When I have a rally and 100,000 people show up, Fake News won’t talk about it, THEY REFUSE TO MENTION the size of the crowd. 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 largest rally of the campaign so far. The organizers of the event moved it to the airport hall because there were a lot of requests for tickets – almost 50,000.

Democrats arrived at the rally on the vice president’s Air Force Two in a dramatic entrance that resembled the hangar hangouts Trump won during his 2016 presidential campaign.

In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Harris and Walz drew more than 10,000 participants earlier in the day to another rally that showed growing enthusiasm for their White House bid. Long queues of cars and people stretched for kilometers before the event was supposed to start.

And in Atlanta on Tuesday, Harris’ first joint event with Walz since announcing his candidacy for governor of Minnesota, the campaign packed an arena with 10,000 people — the same place where Trump held a rally just days earlier.

However, the former president did not seem to attract as many participants as Harris. He complained about empty seats and falsely accused Georgia State University of keeping “thousands of people” out of the venue.

“The school administration prevented us from getting another 500, 600, even a thousand people,” Trump told supporters over the weekend. “Thousands of people were told no. And that was fine, but we could have accommodated another 600 people.”

According to The Washington Post, Trump is “increasingly upset” about the state of the race and having to face Harris instead of President Joe Biden, who dropped out last month after pressure from his party to hand the baton to the younger man. flag bearer. Polls have shown Harris surging and his fundraising outpacing his GOP rivals.

“It’s unfair that I won [Biden] and now I have to beat him too, Trump told an ally in a phone call last weekend, according to the Post.

Trump and his GOP allies have sought to control the news cycle with vicious attacks on Harris’ race and gender, including questioning her ethnicity and even recycling the same false birther conspiracy theory Trump promoted against Obama and other rivals. Nothing has seemed to stick so far.

Trump announced Thursday that he would hold a news conference at his Florida resort, a sign of his desperation to take the cameras away from Harris, said his former White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.