(UnitedHeadlines.com) – Following the assassination attempt of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump on July 13, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris canceled several previously scheduled campaign and fundraising stops.
Harris’ July 16 trip to Palm Beach, Florida, where she was set to discuss Trump’s stance on reproductive rights with Republican and independent women, was canceled following the attempted assassination. She had been expected to tell the women that voting for Biden is the only way “to protect their freedom to make one’s own health care decision.”
Biden campaign officials said her plans were changed after the assassination attempt during a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
On July 15, Biden had a scheduled trip to Texas, where he was supposed to commemorate the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act with a speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. The speech was canceled as Biden’s team refocused on security matters.
The cancellations come after Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, shot at Trump not long after he took the stage to speak during his July 13 rally. Crooks fired more than five shots toward Trump while he was speaking at the Butler Farm Show grounds. Secret Service agents surrounded Trump as he grabbed his ear and dropped to the ground. Trump stopped to raise his arms and tell the crowd to “Fight” as Secret Security agents rushed him off the stage.
A Secret Service sniper killed Crooks not long after he fired the shots using an AR-15-style rifle from an “elevated position” on the roof of a building located about 164 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking.
The shooting left one rally attendee, Corey Comperatore, 50, a firefighter from Sarver, Pennsylvania, dead, and two more rally attendees, David Dutch, 57, shot in the liver and chest, and James Copenhaver, 74, injured. Both men are in stable condition.
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