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Harris campaign deceptively trims Trump post about Elon Musk interview


Tweaks by the campaign put her in a more favorable light.

“Trump blames his confused, slur-filled disaster of an interview with Elon Musk on ‘the complexity of modern day equipment,’” the KamalaHQ account wrote alongside the truncated post on Threads. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the campaign has bought several ads linking to news stories from outlets like The Associated Press, CNN, and USA Today that show up at the top of Google search results pages. The Harris campaign has generally favored the informal language and style of modern social media — quickly adopting the “brat” aesthetic in a nod to Charli XCX’s popular album, for example.

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