The Donald Trump-Kamala Harris contest took a strange turn on Thursday with the former US President questioning his rival's intelligence and pitting himself against Martin Luther King. Trump also veered off topic several times during the lengthy press conference to push dubious claims — including assertions that the 2020 elections had been stolen away from him.
“The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I’m no Biden fan, but I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away…I'm not a big fan of his brain, but I think that she's actually not as smart as he is…Well ... uh, she’s a woman. She represents certain groups of people,” reports quoted him as saying.
The two Presidential candidates will come face to face for the first time on Saturday after Trump agreed to a televised debate against Harris.
Kamala Harris and newly appointed running mate Tim Walz have embarked on a campaign blitz this week — heading to the battlegrounds that are likely to decide the November elections. Meanwhile Trump has sparked concern with his light schedule as the polls draw increasingly closer. The Republican leader has been holding a rally every four or five days — a sharp contrast against the hectic program of an opponent almost 20 years his junior, and his with own vigorous campaigning in 2016.
The 78-year-old tycoon has held just five rallies since the Republican National Convention concluded in mid-July – one fewer than Harris is staging this week alone – and has no events at all announced yet for next week.
Trump however appeared rather irate when asked about the significant crowds gathering at Harris rallies in recent weeks.
“The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken — I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people," he informed reporters assembled at Mar-a-Lago.
(With inputs from agencies)
