Welcome to the news hour. A debate has been set between former President Trump and

Vice President Harris. ABC News says it will host the two candidates in a head-to-head

match-up on September 10th.

That news came as the presidential hopefuls and their running mates continued on the

campaign trail today from a Michigan Union Hall to the Gilded Halls of Maralago.

Well, thank you very much. Donald Trump today

held his first major campaign event since Vice President Kamala Harris

announced her pick of Minnesota Governor Timz as her running mate.

There's certainly never been anybody so liberal like these two.

For nearly 10 minutes, the former president ticked through a litany of now familiar

grievances and unfounded in false claims, taking particular issue with the reporter's question

about the Harris campaign's crowd sizes.

I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size.

He compared the crowd size of his ellipse speech on January 6th to that of

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I Have a Dream speech. And when asked why he's been off

the campaign trail for days offered this.

Because I'm leading by a lot and because I'm letting their convention go through and I am

campaigning a lot. I'm doing tremendous amounts of taping here.

We have commercials that are at a level. I don't think that anybody's ever done before.

Plus in certain cases, I see many of you in the room where I'm speaking to

you on phones. I'm speaking to radio. I'm speaking to television.

Television's coming over here. Excuse me, what are we doing right now? She's not doing it because she can't do a news conference.

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