| | Keeping Up With America | | Trump makes appearance at RNC Day 1 after being formally nominated with Vance: Trump's appearance capped a dramatic few days for the former president, after a gunman opened fire Saturday at a his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing a bystander and critically wounding two people in addition to Trump. Secret Service snipers shot and killed the gunman, who has since been identified as a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man. The FBI and Secret Service are still searching for a motive. | The inside story of how Trump chose JD Vance as his running mate: With the clock ticking to the Republican National Convention last week, Donald Trump met privately to discuss his running mate search with two of his closest advisers: his sons. | In NBC interview, Biden says he shouldn't have said "bullseye" when referring to Trump, but says former president is the one engaged in dangerous rhetoric: In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump, President Biden says he shouldn't have used the word "bullseye" when referring to how his campaign should treat Trump, but still wants to put the focus squarely on his opponent's record and rhetoric heading into November "I was talking about focus on, look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump's agenda," Mr. Biden told NBC News' Lester Holt in an interview on Monday.
Biden says his 'mental acuity has been pretty damn good' in defending his decision to stay in the race: After having tempered attacks on Donald Trump following Saturday's assassination attempt, President Joe Biden plunged back into campaign mode Monday, defending his decision to remain in the presidential race despite calls for him to exit. | Police warned Secret Service of a suspicious person at Trump rally before gunman opened fire, source says: Before a would-be assassin took aim at Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, local police officers notified the former president's Secret Service detail that they were looking for a suspicious person in the area, a U.S. official told NBC News. |
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