Kamala Harris Campaign Mocks Donald Trump’s Yawning Crowd

The Kamala Harris campaign has shared a video showing people yawning in Donald Trump’s audience.
KamalaHQ posted the clip on Saturday, made up of snippets of the former president speaking at a podium, zooming in to folks yawning behind him.
Footage segments from different points in Trump’s speech were cut and edited together to only include parts which showed people yawning, with a musical background of a lullaby. It is unclear where each clip was taken from or over what time period.
In an ironic jab, the video came after Trump was seen saying: “Because people get bored, but they don’t get bored with me.”
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s campaign team for comment via email.
It came after the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which saw Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination, came to an end on Thursday.
The vice president has dominated the headlines since July, when President Joe Biden pulled out of the race and endorsed her as the Democratic candidate, no mean feat for someone up against Trump who often receives a lot of media attention.
On Sunday, Trump insisted he is a “Ratings Machine” in a Truth Social response to The New York Times reporting that he had been the one to call Fox News to weigh in on Harris’ speech.
He wrote: “I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else—They call me! It’s called Ratings, I guess, and I’m the ‘Ratings Machine!'”
But Harris’ political “honeymoon period” could be coming to an end, with political scientist Thomas Gift, who heads the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, telling Newsweek she is likely to still face scrutiny for some of her policy proposals.
He said: Harris has been basking in adulation and positive media coverage for weeks. But her honeymoon will end. Once she is forced to get specific on policies, Americans will be reminded of why Harris was rated as one of the most liberal senators in Congress. Her record, and many of her current policy proposals, are arguably far to the left of the median U.S. voter.
“Trump will also get better at knowing what lines of attack work against Harris. Expect to hear the phrase ‘San Francisco liberal’ over and over and over. Just weeks ago, it looked like Trump would cruise to victory. Now, many think the exact opposite. What we know for sure is that a lot can happen between now and Election Day on November 5.”
Friday saw former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drop out of the race and endorse Trump.
The effects of this are yet to be seen, but an analysis of recent polling by election website RacetotheWH found Kennedy dropping out could be enough to give Trump victory in North Carolina and Nevada because of their overlapping bases of support.