Kamala Harris’ campaign team seized on another apparent blunder from her 2024 opponent, Donald Trump, during his appearance in Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday. At the rally, Trump mistakenly said, “Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote,” prompting Harris’ campaign to highlight the error with a simple caption on their X account: “He is in Arizona.” report from Alretnet.
Bhavik Lathia, Harris’ battleground mobilization director, weighed in on the slip-up, stating, “This after his disastrous debate performance is not good for his campaign.”
The gaffe has fueled ongoing discussions about the 78-year-old former president’s mental acuity. According to The Daily Beast, several experts have voiced concerns about Trump’s cognitive state. Boston University neurology professor Andrew Budson told Stat that when analyzing Trump’s increasingly erratic speech patterns, there is evidence suggesting deterioration in the frontal lobe of his brain, a region that often suffers the most from aging.
Clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis added to the concerns, noting, “There’s reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia. The reduction in complexity of sentences and vocabulary does lead you to a certain picture of cognitive diminishment.”
In March, Newsweek reported on comments by Dr. Lance Dodes, a supervising analyst emeritus of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and retired Harvard Medical School professor, who said, “Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality.” told by CNN.
As the campaign season heats up, Harris’ team is likely to continue spotlighting such moments as they seek to draw contrasts between the candidates. With Trump’s public gaffes and expert concerns about his cognitive health, these issues could become focal points in the broader political debate as November approaches.
