Meghan McCain Predicts Kamala Harris Will Win Election After Trump Presser
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By Kaitlin Lewis
Meghan McCain, daughter of the late GOP Senator John McCain, predicted over social media on Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris is going to win in November.
McCain's statement, made to X, formerly Twitter, was in response to former President Donald Trump's news conference from Mar-a-Lago. The Republican presidential nominee spoke for about an hour and delivered, in Trump fashion, an ever-changing stream of consciousness while responding to reporters' questions.
During one answer on Thursday, Trump bragged about his rally crowds in comparison to Harris, and said that his speech before supporters on January 6, 2021—moments before some of those supporters sieged the U.S. Capitol—was bigger than the crowd Martin Luther King Jr. attracted while delivering his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8 in Palm Beach, Florida. After Trump's event, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late GOP Senator...Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8 in Palm Beach, Florida. After Trump's event, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late GOP Senator John McCain, said that Trump was going to lose the election. More Joe Raedle/Getty Images
"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," Trump said Thursday. "And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people. And I'm OK with it, because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King."
McCain responded to a video of Trump's answer posted by journalist Aaron Rupar, writing, "Vice President Harris is going to win."
The Context
Trump's news conference on Thursday was his first in months, marking the first time the former president has addressed supporters since Harris announced her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
The hourlong conference was filled with Trump's familiar attack lines against his political opponents and repeated falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, which Trump still baselessly claims was rigged against him.
The former president told reporters at one point that "nobody was killed" during the January 6 Capitol attack. Four Trump supporters died of various causes while the crowd broke its way into the building where Congress was certifying President Joe Biden's victory, including Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by Capitol Police as she breached the building. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died a day after the attack due to injuries sustained during the chaos.
Trump also announced that he had agreed to appear for the previously scheduled debate against Harris on September 10, which will be hosted by ABC News. The former president pulled out of the event late last week despite agreeing to the debate plan while Biden was still running as the Democratic presidential nominee.
What We Know
McCain, who in 2020 endorsed Biden over Trump, has criticized both presidential front-runners this election cycle. She previously warned against Trump's running mate choice, Ohio Senator JD Vance, for his controversial statements regarding women and reproductive rights, saying that the comments were "activating women across all sides, including my most conservative Trump supporting friends."
Over the weekend, however, McCain bashed Harris' policies on the economy and immigration, writing on X, "No matter how much momentum and media love Vice President Harris is getting right now - I don't know her excuses for our s*** inflation and open borders where literal terrorists are crossing."
Trump has previously called McCain a "bully" and has mocked her father, who ran for president as the Republican nominee in 2008, on several occasions. In January, after Trump had mocked the late senator during a rally in Newton, Iowa, McCain called the former president "a piece of s***, election-denying huckster whose own wife won't campaign with him."
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Harris' campaign released a statement following Trump's news conference on Thursday, writing that the former president "took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a ... public meltdown."
"He hasn't campaigned all week," the vice president's team continued. "He isn't going to a single swing state this week. But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the country."
Other users responded to McCain's post to X, agreeing that Trump's presser boosted Harris' chances in November.
"We Dems had a meeting just now and formally request Trump to do a presser like this every day until the election," said Shane Holmberg. "Please make it happen."
"Harris doesn't even need to speak," another user wrote. "This is a disaster."
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Democrats are so desperate that the stink is absolutely reeking at this point.