Former President Donald Trump sparked controversy with a clearly unfounded claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign was using artificial intelligence to increase the size of crowds in photos of their rallies.
Trump falsely claims Harris crowd was faked https://t.co/V9Q8ZUzZSr
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 12, 2024
Trump specifically targeted Kamala Harris’s rally in Romulus, Michigan, on August 7, where organizers had to change the venue due to high registration numbers.
The space originally planned was no longer sufficient to accommodate all the participants, so Kamala Harris’s campaign team had to hold the rally inside a crowded airplane hangar, with a crowd that stretched all the way to the tarmac.
In response, the Kamala Harris campaign posted a video on its platform showing Harris and Walz facing throngs of enthusiastic supporters at their rally, accompanied by the caption: “While Trump sits at Mar-a-Lago…”.
While Trump sits at Mar-a-Lago… pic.twitter.com/jJgXdI0qeZ
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 11, 2024
At a rally in Arizona, in front of more than 15,000 people, Tim Walz quipped about Trump’s obsession…
The many photos and videos from the event demonstrate, much to Trump’s dismay, that the crowds gathered around the Democrats are real!