WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump hit the campaign trail again yesterday, travelling to Michigan two days after an apparent assassination attempt against him was foiled at his golf course in Florida.
His Democratic rival Kamala Harris will also be campaigning, as she heads to the key battleground state of Pennsylvania for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
That event and another interview with Hispanic media will be the first time Harris will have an opportunity to react in-person to the apparent bid on Trump’s life.
The Republican nominee and ex-president was whisked away by the Secret Service after a gunman was discovered on his golf course in Florida on Sunday, in the second such close call for Trump in as many months.
As security officials said they believed the suspect acted alone, Trump sought to blame Harris and President Joe Biden for the scare, citing what he called their rhetoric about him endangering democracy.
Trump’s politicisation of the incident – even as he, on the campaign trail, paints Harris as an “evil” radical turning America into a “failing nation” – has further stoked tensions ahead of the presidential election in seven weeks.
Both Biden and Harris have issued statements denouncing the apparent assassination bid, with Harris saying “violence has no place in America”.
But Trump has claimed that rhetoric from Biden and Harris “is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country”.
