Aug 23, 2024

'We're doing well!': Trump responds to Harris




Donald Trump called into Fox News after Kamala Harris’s speech.

“Let me ask you this, sir. There has been huge appeal and momentum for women voters. She’s trying to pull the youth vote, the Hispanic vote, the black vote back in her direction. Polls show she’s having some success. So what are you going to do?” host Martha MacCallum asked him.

“No, she’s not having success. I’m having success,” Mr Trump shot back.

“I’m doing great with Hispanic voters. I’m doing great with black men. I’m doing great with women, because women want safety. They want safety. And they don’t have safety when they have someone allowing 20 million people into our country, many of them very dangerous people.

“No, it’s only in your eyes that they have that, Martha. We’re doing very well in the polls, and in the swing states, we’re winning in almost every one of them.”

There are, by most estimates, about 12 million undocumented migrants in the US at the moment. It’s unclear where Mr Trump’s “20 million” figure came from.

“She’s going to give a tax increase of four to five times what people and companies are paying now,” Mr Trump claimed.

“She didn’t talk about crime. She didn’t talk about 70 per cent of our people living in poverty.”

Again, it is unclear where these numbers come from.

Ms Harris proposes raising America’s corporate tax rate from its current level, 21 per cent, to 28 per cent. And the current US poverty rate is 11.5 per cent – too high, without a doubt, but not quite 70 per cent.

During Ms Harris’s speech, Mr Trump went on something of a posting spree on his social media network, Truth Social, at some points posting more than once per minute.

“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!” he said in one such post.

“She didn’t mention China, she didn’t mention fracking, she didn’t mention Energy, she didn’t mention, Meaningfully, Russia and Ukraine, she didn’t mention the big subjects of the day that are destroying our Country.

“SHE HAS LED US INTO FAILING NATION STATUS!”

Some of that is true. Ms Harris did, however, mention Ukraine in her speech.

“I helped mobilise a global response, over 50 countries, to defend against Putin’s aggression,” she said.

“And as president, I will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies.”

Here’s a sample of some other posts from Mr Trump.

“She talks about other Countries’ Borders, but nothing about our Borders!”

“She stands for Incompetence and Weakness – Our Country is being laughed at all over the World!”

“The Tyrants are laughing at her, she’s weak and ineffective, and for three-and-a-half years she has done nothing except enabled them to get STRONG, RICH and POWERFUL!”

“She caused the attack of October 7th. Iran was BROKE – Didn’t have money for Hezbollah!”

“SHE HATES ISRAEL – Wouldn’t even show up to Congress for Netanyahu’s session!”

That last one is true – Ms Harris did not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress a month ago, though she could have in her capacity as President of the US Senate. Nor did Senator J.D. Vance, whom Mr Trump has chosen to be his vice president.