Candidates for the 2024 presidential election began campaigning on Saturday after a week filled with news about the Republican National Convention and growing discord within the Democratic Party over the nominee.
This happened today:
Donald Trump New vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance The former Ohio president made the remarks at his first campaign rally since last weekend's assassination attempt.
“It still feels a little weird to see my name up on a billboard, to be honest with you,” Vance said, as he pumped up the crowd before Trump spoke.
“I took a bullet for democracy,” Trump said, speaking at an arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson said Saturday that Trump is “recovering as expected” from a gunshot wound to the ear. Investigations into the shooter at the rally and the response of security at the venue continue.
In his first joint interview with Vance, Trump said people at last week's rally noticed someone on the roof before the assassination attempt. “That was well before I got onstage, so that would have given me some idea that somebody must have done something,” Trump said in footage of the interview aired on Fox News on Saturday night.
“How did someone get on that roof and why wasn't it reported, when everyone saw them on the roof?” he said, recalling the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris Her speech at a fundraiser on Saturday afternoon in Provincetown, Massachusetts, drew one of the most enthusiastic responses she's seen in years. While she didn't directly address the turmoil facing her running mate, John F. Kennedy, she appealed to Democrats' anxieties by calling him “our president” and “one of the most important presidents in American history” and repeating, “We are going to win this election.”
Organizers said the event raised more than $2 million, but some big donors are holding off on writing checks amid growing concerns about a funding shortfall. President Joe Biden As uncertainty swirls around Biden's continued candidacy, and as she emerges as the most likely replacement according to many Democrats, all eyes are on the vice president.
Harris is campaigning, Biden is Biden, who continues to recover from a COVID-19 infection that forced him to quarantine this week in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, said Friday he looks forward to returning to the campaign trail as soon as next week, as more Democrats publicly call for him to recuse himself from the 2024 presidential race.
