‘That Is Not True!’ CNN’s Jim Acosta Calls BS On Trump Claim He’s Leading Kamala Harris ‘By A Lot’

CNN anchor Jim Acosta called BS on former President Donald Trump over his claim that he’s leading Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris “by a lot.”

On Thursday afternoon, Trump spoke to reporters for over an hour in a chaotic and falsehood-riddled press conference that included peculiar boasts about his poll numbers. VP Harris has gained on Trump consistently since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and she took the lead in both major polling averages this week.

On Friday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta , the anchor called BS on that claim and others as he recapped the presser:

JIM ACOSTA: Former President Donald Trump is back with a campaign event in Montana, which is not really a battleground state in the race for the White House. And that rally is happening five days after his last one.

Yesterday he said he hasn’t gone to a single swing state this week because he is, quote, “leading by a lot.”

That is not true! In fact, Harris is ahead in many of the most recent polls. The vice president’s momentum has Trump changing course and now agreeing to debate her in September after saying for five days that the matchup was, quote, terminated. It’s a challenge Harris is welcoming enthusiastically.

VP KAMALA HARRIS: I’m glad that he’s finally agreed to a debate on September 10th. I’m looking forward to it. And hope he shows up.

JIM ACOSTA: Trump’s offered to debate Harris two more times this fall came during a rambling, rant filled news conference featuring familiar falsehoods. At times, it turned abrasive.

DONALD TRUMP: What a stupid question!

She picked a radical left — man, havy into the transgender world. Heavy into lots of different worlds.

There’ll be a peaceful transfer. And there was last time.

Nobody was killed on January 6th.

We’re very close to a world war.

No, Kim Jong Un liked me a lot.

They wanted to get rid of Roe v. Wade , and that’s Democrats, Republicans and independents and everybody.

It’s possible that I won’t do as well with Black women. White males way up. White males have gone through the roof, white males way up.

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JIM ACOSTA: Trump campaign is brushing off Kamala Harris’s surge in the polls as just a honeymoon phase. But when Trump was asked a question about the enthusiasm behind his Democratic rival, he tried to compare his own crowd on January 6th, the day of the attack on the Capitol, and– that to the massive gathering on hand for civil rights icon Martin Luther King when he delivered his I Have a Dream speech.

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DONALD TRUMP: If you look at what Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything. We actually had more people.

JIM ACOSTA: For the record. MLK’s “I have a dream” speech was 25 times larger than the crowd Trump was referencing on January 6th.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta .