Vice President Harris’ campaign fired back after former President Trump accused her, without evidence, of using artificial intelligence to falsely portray “enormous” crowds at her rallies.
“1) This is an actual photo of a crowd of 15,000 supporting Harris-Waltz in Michigan,” the Kamala HQ account on social platform X wrote in response to a screenshot of a Trump post attacking Harris’ “fake” crowd. “2) Trump hasn’t campaigned in a battleground state in over a week… is he down?”
The post comes amid growing enthusiasm for Harris’ campaign since President Biden dropped out of the Democratic nomination, as evidenced by increased fundraising, improving polling and large rallies.
Trump, who has long focused on crowd size as a gauge of enthusiasm, has taken to social media to delegitimize the crowd sizes at Harris’ rallies and accuse her of cheating.
“Did anyone notice Kamala cheated at the airport? There was nobody on the plane and she edited it with ‘AI’ to make it look like a horde of so called followers who didn’t exist! An airport maintenance worker noticed the fake crowd photo and called Kamala out, but there was nobody there. It was later confirmed by the reflection in the mirror-like finish of the VP’s plane,” Trump wrote on his Truth social platform on Sunday, reposting a user’s theory about the size of the crowd, including the photo.
“She’s a con artist. The ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people when no one was waiting! The same thing happened with the fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches,” Trump continued.
Trump later claimed the photos of the crowd were fake and amounted to election interference, and called for Harris to be completely disqualified from running.
“Democrats win elections by cheating, and even worse at the ballot box. Creating fake images is election interference and she should be disqualified. Anyone who does that is cheating!” Trump wrote.
The call comes after renewed concerns from some Democrats that Trump is trying to prepare to fight a hypothetical election defeat, as he did in 2020. Trump has recently questioned whether Harris’s rise to the party’s top position is constitutional, likening it to a “coup.”
