- Trump continued to push racist rhetoric about false claims that Harris only recently brought up her Black heritage.

“Well, you’ll have to ask her that question because she’s the one who said it; I didn’t say it,” Trump falsely stated.

“So, you’ll have to ask her.

”- Earlier, Trump also appeared to attribute Harris’s success to her gender while questioning her intelligence.

“I'm not a big fan of his brain, but I think that she's actually not as smart as he is,” he said, bringing up his former opponent, President Joe Biden.

- Trump brought back the issue of crowd size, specifically the crowd in Washington D.

C.

, on Jan.

6 when asked if there was a peaceful transfer of power when he left office.

The former president compared his speech that day, before the riot, to that of Martin Luther King Jr.

’s 1963 March on Washington, which the civil rights leader delivered to an estimated crowd of 200,000 people.

“If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people.

If not, we had more,” he said.

- Trump also appeared to show a shift in his stance on abortion pills, opening up the possibility of directing the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access to mifepristone, a move supported by Project 2025.

“Absolutely.

And those things are pretty, open and humane,” he said when asked if he would ask the FDA to ban the drug.

“But you have to be able to have a vote.

And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak.

”- The Trump campaign later clarified the former president’s belief that abortion laws should be left up to the states.

“As President Trump said, he wants 'everybody to vote' on issues regarding abortion, which is consistent with his long-held position of supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion,” Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement after the news conference.

The former president said he supports abortion for exceptions but that he felt the matter should be left up to the states.

He was asked specifically about Florida, which will have a ballot measure seeking to establish a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability.

Trump said he would hold a press conference about the topic “at some point in the near future.

” “Florida does have a vote coming up on that, and I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought.

But I'll be announcing that at the appropriate time,” he said.

“Oh, it's going to end.

The honeymoon period is going to end.

Look, she's got a little period, she's got a convention coming up,” he said.