Sarah Matthews, a former spokesperson for Donald Trump, said the former president is spiraling as his campaign continues to struggle to halt Kamala Harris’ momentum in the presidential contest.
“I think that he feels this election slipping away from him, and that’s where you’re beginning to see him spiral and cling to these conspiracy theories, as you noted with the AI-generated crowds, which obviously can be easily disproven,” Matthews said on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”
Trump took to his social media site, Truth Social, on Sunday to falsely claim that there were no people at Harris’ rally at the Detroit Metro Airport in Detroit, Michigan and that a campaign photo of the large crowd was created with A.I.
“I know it’s insanity. There will be people out there that will believe it, though, because he’s pushing it. And that’s what happens when he gets desperate is he pushes these conspiracy theories,” Matthews said, also noting that Trump has doubled down on questioning Harris’ race and picked a fight with the popular Republican governor of Georgia.
“These are not winning campaign messages,” Matthews said. “But that is what he does when he feels like he’s under attack, is he uses these kinds of lines of defense that don’t make much sense for campaigning.”
“I can assure you that his campaign team is telling him to talk about policy,” she continued. “They want him to go out there and talk about the economy and immigration and things that voters actually care about.”
