LESTER HOLT: The Harris campaign this evening zeroing in on that unusual campaign event by former President Trump to try to cast doubt on his fitness to be president again. Hallie Jackson with more on this.
HALLIE JACKSON: Vice President Harris looking to flip the script against former President Trump, putting his age and health front and center. Her campaign pointing to Mr. Trump's unusual soundtrack session overnight after that pause for medical help for audience members. Mr. Trump today calling the interlude “amazing”, and “a great evening!”
TRUMP TOWN HALL ATTENDEE: It was awesome. I was dancing with him. I loved it.
JACKSON: But the Harris campaign suggesting Mr. Trump appeared lost, confused and frozen as Democrats ramp up a push to cast doubt on Mr. Trump's mental fitness.
TIM WALZ: He's confused. He's a nearly 80-year-old man.
JACKSON: They're pointing to stumbles like this one.
TRUMP: If everybody gets out and votes on January 5th… or before.
JACKSON: The election, on November 5th. And highlighting his digressions.
TRUMP: Have you heard of Hannibal Lecter?
JACKSON: And run-ons, like one described by a former Republican congressman as “a heaping pile of hot mess.”
TRUMP: …was asking her all these…They don't take like I do. Anybody wants to go. Go, what the hell difference does it make? They have- and how dishonest was ABC?
JACKSON The former president has touted his rhetorical roundabouts…
TRUMP: You know, I do the weave.
JACKSON: …as intentional.
TRUMP: I'll talk about like nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together, but the fake news, you know what they say? He rambled.
JACKSON: And today, trying to turn the focus instead to Vice President Harris.
TRUMP: I don't think she could pass a cognitive test.
JACKSON:The Trump campaign says,“the former president has more energy and more stamina than anyone in politics and is the smartest leader this country has ever seen,” and they've highlighted some of Vice President Harris' unscripted moments including this Monday they called low energy word salad.
KAMALA HARRIS: There is so much about what is at stake that is, frankly, the need for us to fight for the things that we hold dear, that we have always had to fight for, but must continue to fight for.
JACKSON: But polls show far more others think she has the necessary and physical health to serve with a 20-point lead on the question, a stark reversal from Mr. Trump's nearly 30-point margin over President Biden.
And former President Trump remains under pressure from Democrats to release his medical records after saying he would Lester?
HOLT: All right, Hallie. Thanks.
