Trump scheduled to hold news conference at his New Jersey golf resort
BEDMINSTER, NJ — Former President Donald Trump invited reporters to his New Jersey golf club on Thursday for his second news conference in as many weeks as he adapts to a new Democratic nomination form in preparation for next week’s Democratic National Convention.
Trump to address press as he ramps up criticism of vice president Kamala Harris because he has not held a press conference or given any interviews since the president took office. Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed her as his successor.
The vice president has had little contact with reporters since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, but she does travel with reporters aboard Air Force Two and sometimes answers shouted questions as she boards and disembarks the plane for campaign purposes.
During a brief conversation last week, she told reporters that she “wants to set up an interview by the end of the month.”
Trump on Wednesday little effort made to stay on message at a rally in North Carolina that billed his campaign as a big economic speech, mixing promises to lower energy prices and “unleash economic abundance” with familiar, unorthodox digressions.
He expressed frustration that Democrats traded the vice president for Biden at the top of their presidential ticket. He repeatedly denigrated San Francisco, where Harris once served as district attorney, as “unlivable” and went after his rival in deeply personal terms, questioning her intelligence, saying she had “the laugh of a crazy person” and musing that Democrats were being “politically correct” in their attempt to elevate the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.
A new poll A survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that Americans are more likely to trust Trump than Harris on the economy and immigration, issues he has made central to his push for a return to the White House.
In his press conference last weekTrump mocked his rival, boasting about his audience and lashing out at questions about enthusiasm on January 6, 2021 Harris’ campaign has generated. He spoke for over an hour and made a number of false and misleading claims.