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On Tuesday, Donald Trump resumes his campaign trail by heading to Michigan, just two days after an alleged assassination attempt against him was thwarted at his Florida golf course.
Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, is set to campaign as well. She is scheduled to visit the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
That event and another interview with Hispanic media, recorded Monday and set to air Tuesday, will be the first time Harris will have an opportunity to react in-person to the apparent bid on Trump’s life.
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The Secret Service whisked away the Republican nominee and former president when a gunman was found on his Florida golf course on Sunday, marking the second close call for Trump in just two 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 politicization 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.”
The dueling visits of Trump in Michigan and Harris in Pennsylvania come as both candidates focus on the half-dozen swing states most important to win in the country’s Electoral College system.
In Pennsylvania, a recent poll conducted by Suffolk University and USA Today indicates that Harris is leading Trump by a narrow margin, with 49 percent to 46 percent, largely due to significant backing from 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.