Trump ally Elon Musk also wondered in a since-deleted tweet why “no one is even trying to assassinate” Biden and Harris.
The FBI said an agent with the Secret Service had fired upon a man hiding in the bushes along the perimeter of Trump’s club in West Palm Beach, Florida, about 500 yards up the course from where the former president was playing. The agent reported that he saw the muzzle of an AK-style weapon sticking through the greenery.
A man was arrested in Florida this afternoon following what the FBI describes as an apparent attempted assassination.
New details continue to arise with the FBI's ongoing investigation into the second apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.
Secret Service agents fired on a man with a rifle who had been hiding for hours in the wooded edge of a Trump golf club in Florida, officials said. Former President Donald J. Trump was unhurt.
U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a man with a firearm near Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club in Florida while the Republican presidential candidate was golfing. The FBI says it appeared to be an "attempted assassination.
Former President Donald Trump spoke for the first time about the apparent assassination attempt on him Sunday at his golf course and talking to President Biden on Monday.
Polling from the New York Times paints a similar picture of the race. In 2020, Biden had an 8-point lead in September, a significantly greater lead than Clinton's 2-point lead in 2016. Harris is currently trailing Trump by 2 points, according to a New York Times poll from September 8.
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, failed to convince a judge that his criminal case related to the 2020 election in Arizona should be moved to federal court, which could have made it easier to have the charges dismissed.