On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris — this year’s Democratic pick for president in the race against Republican nominee Donald Trump — visited Arizona for a campaign stop, clearly hoping to continue the turnaround in the state that Joe Biden nabbed in 2020. And the crowd was thrilled.
In a video clip shared on social media by a rapid response team on the Harris campaign, the large crowd enthusiastically chants: “We will win!”
“Part of why we are going to win is because we remember,” Harris told her listeners. “And we are smart. And we know what’s happening. And we’re not falling for the gaslighting.” The crowd cheered.
The same night that Harris was in Arizona, Trump visited Montana for one of what lately are his few actual stops on the campaign trail, though his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) is keeping up his own stream of appearances.
The day before, Trump held a widely panned press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, complaining about Harris being at the front of the Democratic ticket at all and relaying a story of supposedly enduring a precarious helicopter ride with a particular former mayor of San Francisco that some are now saying didn’t involve that individual at all. Nate Holden, a former elected official from southern California, said it was actually himself on the chopper with Trump.
And Trump’s other recent appearances didn’t go much better, in terms of public reception. At an onstage interview that was part of a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump questioned Harris’ racial identity, claiming that she just “happened to turn Black,” with the underlying implication that she was being deceptive and/or conniving in identifying as such. Her father, though, was born in Jamaica. (Harris’ mother was from India.)
Crowd: WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!
Vice President Harris: Part of why we are going to win is because we remember. We’re not falling for the gaslighting and we’re not falling for the okey-doke pic.twitter.com/IlagEbxu70
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 10, 2024
