WASHINGTON, Sept 10: Two days after what appeared to be an attempt on his life failed at his Florida golf property, Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail, flying to Michigan.
His Democratic opponent Kamala Harris is expected to participate in a meeting with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Pennsylvania, an important election state.
Trump attempted to put blame for the scare on President Joe Biden and Senator Harris, citing what he called their rhetoric about him endangering democracy, even as police declared that they assumed the suspect worked solo.
In the seven weeks ahead of the presidential election, emotions have been dramatically raised by Trump’s politicization of the incident, as he described Harris as an “evil” radical who is turning America into a “failing nation” on the campaign trail.
Nevertheless, Trump took aim at Biden and Harris for their rhetoric, arguing that “is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one asking who is going to save the country.”
Trump and Harris are making separate trips to Pennsylvania and Michigan as they prioritise the six swing states that are essential for them to win in the nation’s Electoral College system.
In Pennsylvania, Harris leads Trump by a small amount — 49 percent to 46 percent — mostly due to the major backing of female voters.
Still, her advantage in that poll remains within the margin of error — and the election at-large remains close.
This year’s particularly bitter presidential campaign has seen not just the two assassination attempts against Trump but also bomb threats against an Ohio town’s immigrant community and a fringe party urging Harris’s murder.
Trump previously had a close call with a would-be assassin when he was slightly wounded in an attack during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July. – TVS
