WASHINGTON ― Kamala Harris could have wowed each Democrats and political observers together with her speech Thursday accepting her occasion’s nomination for president, however for her opponent, Donald Trump, there have been simply too many “thanks’s.”
“She talked about thanks about 50 instances. Did you see the start? Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks, thank, thank. Thanks. Thanks, arghghghgah, Thanks, thanks, thank, thank thank. I mentioned what the hell is unsuitable together with her?” the coup-attempting prison former president assessed Friday at his first marketing campaign look for the reason that Democratic Nationwide Conference wrapped up the earlier evening.
In truth, Harris repeated “thanks” numerous instances due to a three-minute standing ovation from the viewers on the packed United Middle enviornment in Chicago ― one thing Trump should have observed as he watched.
Trump’s evaluation on that time Friday in Las Vegas expanded on one of many first “fact-checking” social media posts he wrote because the speech was happening: “Too many “Thank yous,” too quickly mentioned, what’s occurring together with her?”
Different posts in that thread included: “WHERE’S HUNTER?”; “SHE HAS LED US INTO FAILING NATION STATUS!” and “There shall be no future below Comrade Kamala Harris, as a result of she is going to take us right into a Nuclear World Struggle III! She is going to by no means be revered by the Tyrants of the World!”
When Harris hit the part of her speech that laid out Trump’s prison conviction for falsifying enterprise information and a civil jury’s discovering that he had dedicated sexual abuse, Trump responded: “IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?”
Harris’ 40-minute speech was praised far and broad as well-crafted and forcefully delivered. It closed out a whirlwind monthlong stretch that started with President Joe Biden ending his marketing campaign for reelection adopted shortly by his endorsement of Harris, his vp, for the job.
Harris inside days locked down assist from sufficient occasion delegates to safe the nomination, permitting her occasion to spend the 4 days on the conference in Chicago nearly unanimously singing her praises whereas disparaging Trump as a would-be autocrat and a prison.
Trump, who’s infamous each for his lack of curiosity in coverage particulars in addition to his energetic dishonesty, complained that Harris didn’t present sufficient specifics in her deal with and didn’t inform the reality.
“Final evening, the speech, she made 26 various things that had been lies. She lied, however that’s OK, as a result of lots of people lie. They’ll do something to get elected,” he mentioned.
Trump spoke Friday afternoon at a Mexican restaurant to advertise his “no taxes on suggestions” proposal, which he mentioned ought to earn him the assist of the members of Nevada’s highly effective Culinary Staff Union.
Whereas he spent a lot of his hour there repeating lots of his standard lies about his personal file and baseless claims about what a Harris presidency would imply ― he once more warned of a 1929-style despair, one thing he additionally claimed would occur if Hillary Clinton gained in 2016 and Biden in 2020 ― he tried out a brand new declare about his stance on abortion: “I’m very sturdy on girls’s reproductive rights.”
In truth, Trump gave the anti-abortion Federalist Society carte blanche to pick out his nominees for lots of of federal judgeships, together with three on the U.S. Supreme Court docket. Trump ceaselessly boasts that, by way of these appointments, he was in a position to get the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationally overturned.
