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Trump in Pennsylvania for first time since assassination attempt
A crowd gathers outside of the Farm Show building in Harrisburg, Pa., ahead of a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared in Pennsylvania for the first time since an attempted assassination in Butler on July 13.
He took the stage in a packed auditorium in Harrisburg, where he chided Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for shifting her public image and relying on celebrities to draw crowds to her rallies.
“We didn’t need a star,” he said. “We didn’t need some entertainer to fill it up.”
Trump’s comments come 10 days after Harris ascended to the top of the ticket vacated by President Joe Biden via a statement shared on social media.
Since then, delegates across the nation and top Pennsylvania Democrats – including Gov. Josh Shapiro – have thrown support behind the vice president.
The governor himself is on a short list to join Harris as a running mate, along with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.
One of the nation’s top election forecasters, Nate Silver, said Wednesday – 97 days from Election Day – that Harris’ chances of winning the November election have risen to 43%, “close enough that you could almost get away with calling the race a toss-up, something the Biden-Trump matchup never was.”
A poll conducted from July 20 through July 23 shows Trump holds a 2-percentage point lead over Harris. The vice president, however, is significantly more popular than Biden in the state.
Trump said Wednesday her “personality makeover” shouldn’t distract from her progressive stances on natural gas drilling, immigration, criminal justice and gender politics.
“Don’t forget four weeks ago she was like considered the worst,” he said. “Not smart, terrible, the worst vice president we’ve had in history … and all of sudden she’s the new Margaret Thatcher.
“You’re going to learn. Little things like ‘defund the police,’ that doesn’t work does it? Everything about Kamala Harris rollout, it’s phony and fake,” he added.
During a campaign rally in Montgomery County on Monday, Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attacked Trump as “dangerous” and “destructive.”
Shapiro also tied the Republican nominee to Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda developed by The Heritage Foundation.
Trump has said his platform doesn’t include Project 2025. Democrats, however, argue that the plan centers on him – whether he wants it to or not – and promotes far-right policies on abortion, public education and illegal border crossings.
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House Unanimously Passes Bill Boosting Secret Service Protection For Presidential Candidates
Former President Donald Trump on the stage in Butler, Pa. on July 13, 2024, as shots are fired at him. (Screen Capture/CSPAN)
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
The House unanimously passed a bill Friday that would bolster U.S. Secret Service protections for major presidential candidates in the aftermath of a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The bill, titled the “Enhanced Presidential Security Act,” passed the House in a 405-0 vote after two assassination attempts on Trump took place between in July and September. The bill would require the Secret Service director to equally apply standards for protections for presidents, vice presidents, as well as major presidential and vice presidential candidates.
“It’s unacceptable that now we’re at two assassination attempts on President Trump,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a press release. “The Secret Service has to provide the same level of protection for presidential candidates as for presidents so that something like this doesn’t happen a third time. The future of our country is at stake.”
“Political violence has no place in our country, but when it does rear its ugly head, we must ensure we’ve done everything possible to prevent it from being successful,” Scalise continued.
On July 13, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks took aim and fired multiple shots at the former president from a rooftop positioned just 130 yards away from a rally stage in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Leading up to the rally, Crooks was reportedly spotted by attendees, flagged by Secret Service, and even identified by a local counter sniper over an hour before Trump stepped on stage.
Within two months of the Butler shooting, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to assassinate Trump while the former President was golfing at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was arrested by authorities after his “AK-47 style rifle with a scope” was spotted in the bushes on the course by a Secret Service agent.
Back in 2020, venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg launched a new podcast called All In. The All In Podcast focuses on business, technology, current events, market trends, and politics.
With well over 600,000 subscribers on Youtube, and over 400,000 followers on X, the All In Podcast is clearly becoming an extremely influential source of ideas, information, and discussion. This month, the founders held a live summit event in Los Angeles featuring the likes of Elon Musk and alternative news mogul Bari Weiss.
Exerts from that event are making the rounds on the internet including these video snippets from the session with Bari Weiss, editor and CEO of The Free Press.
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