Opinion by Dave Pell — Over the weekend, the rally crowd size-obsessed Donald Trump accused the Harris campaign of using AI and other tactics to make it look like their crowds were bigger than they actually were. At this point, is it really newsworthy that a pathetic, jealous narcissist who lies about everything is lying about something relatively trivial? Unfortunately, yes. Because like so many of his strategies over the past several years, this is is all about laying the groundwork to deny the election results.
For his backers to believe he won, they can’t be allowed to believe that the Harris/Walz campaign has the momentum.
Trump Lies Again:
Bottom line for Trump: Diminishing Kamala’s popularity lays the groundwork to try to steal the election. The claims are easily disprovable and patently ridiculous. But as Philip Bump explains,
“The point isn’t to increase Trump’s credibility. It’s to erode everyone else’s.
Philip Bump
That way, when they accurately report the results in November, Trump can remind his supporters to reject them if necessary.”
‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss. Trump falsely argued that 3.5 million people illegally voted in an election he won. He began laying the groundwork to claim that the 2020 election was stolen months, if not years, in advance.
The worse reality gets, the more aggressive these claims will become.
