Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is mocking former President Donald Trump over his fixation with the size of his crowds in a new ad.
The 30-second clip – titled “Crowd Size” – intercuts footage of former President Barack Obama mocking his successor over the obsession, during his speech at last month’s Democratic National Convention, with video of Trump talking about his crowds and less than engaged Trump campaign events.
See the ad here:
“Here’s a 78-year-old billionaire who hasn’t stopped whining about his problems since he went down his golden escalator nine years ago,” Obama said at the DNC.
“There are the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with audience sizes,” Obama added with a hand gesture that saw the crowd erupt.
Watch Obama’s full DNC call on Trump here:
Harris’ campaign released the ad on Tuesday, the day of what could be the first and only presidential debate between the vice president and Trump.
One of the first tens of thousands of falsehoods that Trump negotiated during his presidency was about the size of the crowd at his inauguration in January 2021.
Trump recently too falsely claimed that Harris had used artificial intelligence to make a crowd that attended one of her meetings look bigger in pictures.
“Trump spends a lot of time worrying about his audience size, but the American people are far more concerned about which candidate is going to make their lives better — and it’s not the guy on the Project 2025 agenda,” said Harris’ campaign communications director Michael Tyler in a statement sent to HuffPost.
Project 2025 is the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s playbook on extremist politics that Trump is widely expected to adopt if he wins back the White House, despite his attempts to distance himself from the plan authored by many of his former administration aides.
“The cat’s debate will present the stark choice Americans will face at the ballot box: between Vice President Harris who is fighting for the people to make our lives better, and the guy who can’t seem to stop obsessing over himself and the size of his crowds,” added Tyler.
On Monday, Harris’ team shared this 60-second spot featuring comments from former Trump allies detailing exactly why they have abandoned his pursuit of a potential second term: