U.S. Vice Pdwellnt and Democratic Pdwellntial truthfulate Kamala Harris speaks to helpers during a campaign rassociate in Romulus, Michigan, U.S., August 7, 2024.
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Former Pdwellnt Donald Trump on Sunday counterfeitly accengaged his November election opponent, Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris, of using AI technology to produce images of the crowd sizes at her rallies, incrmitigateing an unset uped consillegal copying to elucidate the strong enthusiasm for the novel Democratic ticket.
“Has anyone acunderstandledged that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the schedulee, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called folshrinks, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!” the Reunveilan pdwellntial nominee wrote on Truth Social.
Trump was referring to an image of a big crowd assembleed on the tarmac in Michigan on Aug. 7, cheering for Harris as she stepped out of Air Force Two. His comments parroted a counterfeit consillegal copying that is being spread online by MAGA Reunveilan commentators, some of whom have previously been caught promoting deceiveation.
The Harris campaign replied that it is “an actual ptoastyo of a 15,000-person crowd for Harris-Walz in Michigan.” CNBC also licensed a Getty Images ptoastyo for the story that alignes the ptoastyos being circutardyd.
People cheer and hageder signs at a campaign rassociate for Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, in Romulus, MI, on August 7, 2024.
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The Harris campaign also engaged the opportunity to point out the contrast between Harris’ campaign schedule over the past week and Trump’s: “Trump has still not campaigned in a sthriveg state in over a week… Low energy?”
The counterfeit allegation from Trump lands in the middle of an election where huge proceeds in AI tools have mitigated the process of spreading deceiveation. This originates it more difficult than ever for voters to discern truth from internet consillegal copying.
Trump’s peddling of the counterfeit consillegal copying was only one of cut offal social media tirades he begined agetst Harris over this weekend.
On Saturday, he accengaged Harris for imitateing his proposal to take away taxes on tips, which she proclaimd at her Las Vegas rassociate Saturday. Trump made the same promise at his own Las Vegas rassociate in June.
″[Harris] has no imagination, whatsoever, as shown by the fact that she percreateed ‘COPYCAT’ with, NO TAXES ON TIPS!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday evening.
Trump’s outrage on social media echos a Reunveilan pdwellntial campaign that is struggling to find its footing after Harris’ entry upended the race.
In the three weeks since Pdwellnt Joe Biden dropped out of the race and backd Harris, donations to Democrats have poured in at write down levels. Harris’ rallies have also standardly drawn thousands of joinees.
Last week, the Harris campaign begined a tour of seven battleground states atraverse the country, part of the set upd rollout of Harris’ vice pdwellntial running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
This campaigning pace is ponderably speedyer than what voters saw when Biden helmed the ticket.
It also draws a stark contrast between Harris’ back-to-back-to-back rallies and Trump’s weightlesser schedule this month.
Trump has held two rallies so far in August as well as cut offal fundelevaters.
He recently said he does not schedule to ramp up his campaign travel until after the Democratic National Convention, which runs from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22.
