WASHINGTON ― Kamala Harris could have wowed each Democrats and political observers along with her speech Thursday accepting her celebration’s nomination for president, however for her opponent, Donald Trump, there have been simply too many “thank you’s.”
“She mentioned thank you about 50 times. Did you see the beginning? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank, thank. Thank you. Thank you, arghghghgah, Thank you, thank you, thank, thank thank. I said what the hell is wrong with her?” the coup-attempting felony former president assessed Friday at his first marketing campaign look because the Democratic Nationwide Conference wrapped up the earlier night time.
In actual fact, Harris repeated “thank you” various occasions due to a three-minute standing ovation from the viewers on the packed United Middle area 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 along with her?”
Different posts in that thread included: “WHERE’S HUNTER?”; “SHE HAS LED US INTO FAILING NATION STATUS!” and “There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III! She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World!”
When Harris hit the part of her speech that laid out Trump’s felony 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 large 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 rapidly by his endorsement of Harris, his vp, for the job.
Harris inside days locked down assist from sufficient celebration delegates to safe the nomination, permitting her celebration to spend the 4 days on the conference in Chicago virtually unanimously singing her praises whereas disparaging Trump as a would-be autocrat and a felony.
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.
“Last night, the speech, she made 26 different things that were lies. She lied, but that’s OK, because a lot of people lie. They’ll do anything to get elected,” he mentioned.
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Trump spoke Friday afternoon at a Mexican restaurant inside a Las Vegas lodge and on line casino owned by one among his marketing campaign’s largest benefactors, Miriam Adelson, the widow of on line casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
Whereas he spent a lot of his hour there repeating lots of his common lies about his personal report and baseless claims about what a Harris presidency would imply ― he once more warned of a 1929-style melancholy, 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 strong on women’s reproductive rights.”
In actual fact, Trump gave the anti-abortion Federalist Society carte blanche to pick his nominees for a whole bunch of federal judgeships, together with three on the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. Trump often boasts that, by means of these appointments, he was in a position to get the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationally overturned.
