Trump holds first outdoor rally since assassination attempt as Democratic convention continues
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Donald Trump is holding his first outdoor rally since narrowly surviving an attempted assassination last month.
  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
    90·
    27 days ago

    it’s been covered recently that the reason he keeps doing outside rallies this time around is because he still has outstanding bills for venues all over battleground states from the previous election; it might also be relevant that it’s easier to lie about crowd sizes outdoors as opposed to indoor venues with stated capacities. in summary, he’s even more of a clown than ever.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    27 days ago

    The event, billed as being focused on national security issues

    He’s 100% saying “national security” because he’s worried about his personal security and can’t understand how that’s different.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    27 days ago

    While Trump has acknowledged the race is closer than before Biden dropped out, his aides believe that Harris remains relatively unknown and that efforts to highlight her past statements and the positions she took in previous races will turn off swing voters after her honeymoon period ends.

    Harris “relatively unknown?” Really? And it’s been exactly one month since Biden stepped down. In the modern 24 hour news cycle, that’s an eternity of a “honeymoon period.”

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      27 days ago

      To be fair, she is relatively unknown.

      Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).

      Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.

      • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
        6·
        27 days ago

        I don’t think you can say the vice president is “unknown.” Everyone has a general sense of her stances on things. It would be hard for her not to be a better unscripted speaker than Trump.

        • meco03211@lemmy.world
          2·
          27 days ago

          She’ll be better unscripted but also subjected to relatively massive judgement. There’s pretty much nothing trump could say that would hurt him. There’s a lot Harris could say that would hurt her.

      • bobzilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

        I mean, she could pull a Trump and be like, “I have really big plans. I can’t discuss them until I’m in office, but let me tell you… Big plans.”

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    27 days ago

    Of course he’s holding more outdoor rallies, he can’t afford to use any of the actually nice venues… he still owes them all money!!!

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    An event on national security, from behind bulletproof glass.

    I’m sure he argued for background checks and other responsible gun ownership measures to keep guns out of the hands of weirdos. Right? Right?

    • Tiefling IRL
      1·
      27 days ago

      It’s gonna be like his previous interview all over again. Everything is to blame on “the immigrants” and other “undesirables”.