Welcome to the lead. I'm Phil Matting in for Jake Tapper and we start today with the

breaking news. In just moments, Donald Trump is set to hold a news

conference and take questions from reporters at his home in New Jersey. Now it's not

exactly clear why the former president decided to hold the event today.

It was announced a few days ago. Exactly what he wants to discuss though. If you look at what's on your screen right now, there are groceries. Seems economic-related, there are props. However, in recent days, allies have urged Trump to stay on message,

especially after his news conference last week

that went like this.

We have somebody that, in my opinion,

is more incompetent Kamala, who by the way is worse than Biden, and she's actually not

as smart.

Course there'll be a peaceful transfer, and there was last time, nobody was killed on January 6th, but I think that the people of January 6th were treated

very unfairly.

You know, with Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your

head spin. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his

speech, same number of people, if not we had more. In history, for any country, nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that. I haven't recalibrated

strategy at all.

Now today's news conference also comes just one day after a Trump event that was billed

about a speech on the economy and

while he certainly did talk about the economy he also said this.

Vote Trump and your incomes will soar, your savings will grow, young people will be able to afford

a home, and we will bring back the American dream bigger, better, and stronger than ever

before.

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