President Joe Biden will address the nation at 8pm tonight from the White House to explain the reasons for his extraordinary decision to withdraw from the 2024 race.
The 81-year-old was seen for the first time in six days as he returned to Washington D.C. from his Delaware beach home, while Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail as she looked to build support from voters.
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Secret Service asks Trump to hold rallies indoors after shooting
The Secret Service has asked Donald Trump to hold his future rallies indoors after the assassination attempt.
The embattled agency still dealing with the fallout of the shooting shared their ‘concerns’ to the campaign about holding events in outdoor spaces, The Washington Post reported.
Trump and his team are said to have agreed and are now looking for larger indoor arenas in the build-up to the general election.
He is back on the campaign trail Wednesday afternoon with an appearance at the Bojangles Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The news sparked a frustrated response from Republicans.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said it would be ‘shame’ if the former president was restricted to indoor spaces.
On Tuesday, the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle finally resigned over the massive security failures that led to Trump dodging a bullet.
The momentum shift in the polls
The Vice President has taken the nationwide lead over her Republican rival after securing enough delegates to be named the Democratic candidate at the party’s convention in Chicago next month.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Harris leading Trump by 2 percent in a head-to-head general election matchup as she hits the campaign in place of the ailing 81-year-old Biden.
It follows a slew of other polls taken in the aftermath of Biden putting a stop to his campaign.
Trump was leading Harris by tight margins in polls taken when speculation swirled that Biden wouldn’t be on the ticket.
Trump-hating prosecutor reveals her ‘singular focus’ for 2024 race
New York Attorney General Letitia James says getting Kamala Harris elected president is her ‘singular focus’, despite plenty of cases on her hands.
Trump, who was also banned from doing business in New York for three years, is appealing the verdict as the fine accrues interest, and James will try to seize his assets if he fails to pay up.
Vice President Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race against Trump on Sunday.
James quickly endorsed Harris and continued her support when appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday night.
Inside the tiny Indian village where Kamala Harris has roots
Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Kamala Harris is being celebrated in her ancestral home in south east India with prayers.
Harris’ grandfather hails from the village of Painganadu-Thulasendrapuram in the province of Tamil Nadu. On Monday, residents of the area held a special prayer service at the Dharma Sastha Temple.
Those services will continue until November 5, election day. ‘We are very happy that the granddaughter of P V Gopalan, Kamala Harris, is likely to be the US Presidential nominee,’ a local resident told The Deccan Herald.
‘We organized special poojas to pray that she is able to get the nomination and eventually triumph against Donald Trump,’ they added. A pooja is a Hindu worship ritual.
None of her relatives remain in the area, the priest of the temple told The Hindu, confirming that the last of her family left ‘several decades ago.’
FBI Director Christopher Wray to face grilling on Trump assassination
Members of Congress are expected to demand answers from FBI Director Chris Wray about former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt.
It comes days after the former Director of Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle was forced to resign after evading answering rounds of questioning by punting to the FBI in another congressional hearing earlier this week.
Now it’s Wray’s turn in the hot seat, and it’s unlikely to go smoothly.
The Judiciary Committee hearing is expected to focus on both the shooting at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally and the ‘ongoing politicization’ of the FBI.
Biden seen for the first time in six days… and is asked about dropping out
The 81-year-old has not showed his face since his bombshell announcement he was dropping out of the race on Sunday and sparked wild conspiracy theories with his absence.
The last time he made an appearance was last Wednesday – when he slowly exited Air Force One in Dover to go into isolation after being diagnosed with COVID. Only his voice was heard on a call into his old campaign office on Monday.
On Tuesday he emerged from his SUV with a mask, turned to the press and said he is ‘well’ and then slowly headed to the stairs of Air Force One to make the trip back to Washington D.C. for the first time since ending his 2024 bid.
‘Watch and listen. Why don’t you wait and hear what I say,’ he said when asked what his message during his Wednesday night speech will be.
But when asked why he dropped out of the presidential race, Biden just laughed and walked away. He slipped on his aviator sunglasses and got into the Beast.
The view from Air Force One as Biden was rushed to isolation
By Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent
Air Force One was flying so fast that I was shaking in my seat.
Now we were joining him on a mad rush back from Las Vegas to the Bidens’ Rehoboth Beach getaway in Delaware.
Moments after fastening my seatbelt, the massive engines of the presidential Boeing 747 roared to life.
The flight attendants, in their custom blue uniforms, stumbled in the aisles as the jet’s nose pointed skyward.
Tray tables shook. Reporters held up their water glasses so they wouldn’t spill.
Most concerning, though, was that we had no idea what was going on.
For security reasons, there is no Wi-Fi on Air Force One, so we were cut off from the outside world.
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