Kai, the granddaughter of former President Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s daughter, asked if she could speak at the RNC, despite not having an original time slot in the program Wednesday night, Trump Jr. said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” Thursday afternoon.

“She’s with him every weekend,” Trump Jr. told host Martha MacCallum. “They talk about golf every day.It’s funny, so they have this great relationship. And she called me on Monday and just said ‘you know, I feel really strongly about this. I want to speak at the convention,’ I was like, ‘Are you sure? Like that’s not a standard easy first speech venue.'”

“And she’s like, ‘I’m sure,’ — so I called my dad,” Trump Jr. recalled.

Trump enthusiastically agreed, and Trump Jr. gave some of his speaking time to Kai, he said.

Kai, who joined her father in the interview, reiterated that the former president is a “normal grandpa” whom she golfs with every weekend. She also defended her grandfather from mainstream media critics, adding “it’s frustrating when you see people painting him as an image that he’s not.”

MILWAUKEE – The Democratic National Convention is set to be a week of “chaos and confusion” following President Biden’s disastrous debate performance that opened the floodgates to calls for him to bow out of the race, and the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Illinois Republican Rep. Darin LaHood told Fox News Digital.

“This dump Biden movement, it builds every single day… Democrats know they can’t win with Joe Biden on the ticket. Now that’s a problem for them. We need to stay focused and disciplined with President Trump’s message and JD Vance’s message,” LaHood told Fox News Digital from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“I think it’s going to be chaos and dysfunction,” LaHood said of what he expects out of the DNC. “Let me just contrast that with Milwaukee. I’ve never seen a convention or unity or activism or energy in the first two days of this convention.”

The Democratic National Convention will kick off next month in LaHood’s home state of Illinois, starting on Monday, Aug. 19, in Chicago. The Democratic Party is in the midst of an election freefall, as elected Democrats, including California Rep. Adam Schiff, continue calling for Biden to bow out of the race due to concerns over his mental fitness to face Trump this year.

“While the choice to withdraw from the campaign is President Biden’s alone, I believe it is time for him to pass the torch,” Schiff said in a statement this week. “And in doing so, secure his legacy of leadership by allowing us to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming election.”

Biden is urged to drop out ahead of the DNC, when delegates will officially nominate their pick for the 2024 presidential election.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Emma Colton.

The Biden campaign says that a tweet which started “I am sick” in a play of Biden’s COVID diagnosis, but then mushroomed into a fundraising appeal — and drew mockery from conservatives online — actually performed really well for the campaign.

The two post thread, read “I am sick” followed by “of Elon Musk and his rich buddies trying to buy this election. And if you agree, pitch in here.”

Spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said that the tweet “was the second best raising social post for the Biden campaign in more than a year!”

Dana White is the president of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). He received the title in 2001 when his childhood friends, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, purchased the MMA fighting promotion for $2 million and named White head of the organization.

In 2023, White doubled down on his title and became the CEO of the UFC.

White is often regarded as a successful businessman as, under his stewardship, the UFC grew to be worth upward of $11 billion, according to Forbes.

Dana White is the president of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). He received the title in 2001 when his childhood friends, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, purchased the MMA fighting promotion for $2 million and named White head of the organization.In 2023, White doubled down on his title and became the CEO of the UFC.White is often regarded as a successful businessman as, under his stewardship, the UFC grew to be worth upward of $11 billion, according to Forbes.

Rachel Maddow and other top MSNBC hosts have been using an LED screen to cover the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee from the liberal network’s studio in New York City, according to a report.

Maddow, who has been leading the network’s coverage of the GOP convention this week, has repeatedly appeared on air with the backdrop of the convention behind her, leading casual viewers to assume she was on the ground in Milwaukee. But Maddow and many of her colleagues, including Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid and other MSNBC anchors have not been inside the convention hall or even in the same city, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

“Instead, they were broadcasting from a studio in Midtown Manhattan, as a live feed of the convention floor was projected onto an LED screen behind them,” the Times report reads.

“The arrangement — which several veteran television news producers described as unorthodox — has created something of a trompe l’oeil effect. A casual glance at the screen would suggest that MSNBC’s top anchors were covering the convention in person,” the article continues, using a French phrase referring to highly realistic-looking but visually deceptive artwork.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Yael Halon.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, gave his first speech since receiving the Republican Party’s nomination for vice president on Wednesday, and it could offer a look into his future role on the presidential campaign trail. 

The “Hillbilly Elegy” author mentioned his home state of Ohio 12 times during his remarks. “We gotta chill with the Ohio love. We gotta win Michigan too here,” Vance, an Ohio State University alumnus, said to the crowd.

The second most-mentioned states were Michigan and Pennsylvania, with both being talked about by Vance six times.

Kentucky was also a significant state for Vance, as he spent a portion of his childhood there with his grandmother, “Mamaw.” The state, which differs from the others as it traditionally votes red, was also mentioned by the Republican four times.

With President Biden self-isolating at home for COVID-19, VP Harris hit the campaign trail to counter the RNC programming in North Carolina on Thursday — just hours before former President Trump is scheduled to formally accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

While defending abortion rights and the administration’s prescription drug policies, Harris sharply criticized Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, newly tapped as Trump’s VP nominee, for his RNC speech on Wednesday night.

“In recent days, they’ve been trying to portray themselves as the party of unity. But here’s the thing, if you claim to stand for unity, you need to do more than just use the word,” Harris said Thursday. “But with the selection of his running mate this week, Donald Trump is also trying to distract people. He wants to direct attention away from his record and his Project 2025 plan to suggest that he and his running mate are going to prioritize the middle class. But we are not buying it.”

Portrayed as a blueprint for a future Republican administration to restructure many parts of the U.S. government, Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, launched in April 2023 by a handful of Heritage Foundation directors, is not associated with Trump’s campaign.

“I have no idea what it is,” Trump said of Project 2025 on “The Faulkner Focus.”

“It’s a group of extremely conservative people, [they] got together and wrote up a wish list of things, many of which I disagree with entirely,” said Trump in a sitdown that was taped ahead of Saturday afternoon’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear in a failed assassination attempt. 

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Heckman contributed to this report.

Democratic 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is slamming signs seen at the Republican National Convention which called for a mass deportation policy if former President Trump is re-elected.

“A mass deportation policy would rip apart American families and devastate our economy,” she said.

“It’s also such a centerpiece of the Republican Party agenda that they had literal signs made,” she added.

Signs of “Mass Deportation Now!” were seen on the convention floor, and the point was hammered home by former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief Tom Homan, who said that a new Trump term would bring new enforcement measures and more deportations.

“I’ve got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden has released in our country in violation of federal law: You better start packing now,” Homan said to cheers from the crowd.

MILWAUKEE — EXCLUSIVE: Alina Habba, an attorney and legal spokesperson for former President Donald Trump, is taking on a major new role that she hopes will help accomplish the “critical” task of sending him back to the White House this November.

Habba is now serving as a senior adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign, a promotion that comes after she gained national recognition in her legal role, which saw her win in court for the former president more than any of his other attorneys despite having only been on his team since 2021.

Fox News Digital sat down with Habba ahead of Trump’s highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where she discussed her new role and gave a preview of what the former president will say to the audience of delegates and supporters who, earlier this week, cheered his triumphant return following a failed assassination attempt.

“Moved, I think, is the best word for it. I was moved,” Habba said when asked how she felt seeing Trump, sporting a bandage on his wounded ear, enter the convention hall on Monday night to massive cheers and applause. “I think America could see it’s a different President Trump today.”

“I never in my life thought I would live through that, let alone live through it and say, ‘That’s also my friend.’ And that’s been very difficult for me,” she said. “It’s traumatic, but I’m proud of him.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie.

A well-connected advisor and fundraising coordinator for President Biden’s campaign
is reportedly warning that donations are at risk of drying up, according to reports. 

Film producer and Democratic insider Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly spoke with Biden in a private meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday. 

During the meeting, Katzenberg allegedly told the president that major donors were likely to cut funding due to concerns about the campaign’s viability, according to a report from Semafor.

Following the report, Katzenberg released a statement saying the characterization was inaccurate and that the two had “talked about everything from the convention to new ads.”

“And by the way, we will raise the money we need to run a winning campaign,” he added.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for clarification on the nature of the conversation.

The Trump campaign is responding to the latest reports on the rising chorus of calls from top Democrats for President Biden to end his re-election bid.

A Trump campaign official told Fox News, “When you look at what we’ve done with this convention, we’ve demonstrated to the American people that not only is the Republican Party unified but we have a unifying vision for the entire country with President Trump’s agenda and plan for America well established.”

“At the same time, the Democrats can’t even figure out who their nominee should be,” the person said.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.

The cost of buying a house has surged in recent years, as high mortgage rates and rising home prices put ownership out of reach for many Americans.

The problem is even worse for the millions living in key battleground states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

New findings from Redfin show the combination of steep mortgage rates and elevated home prices has pushed the median monthly housing payment for homebuyers in swing states to an all-time high of $2,161 – a 92% increase from the 2020 election.

Home prices in those states have also skyrocketed over the past four years, climbing nearly 40% to a record high of $316,063.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Megan Henney.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan and UFC president Dana White, two prominent figures in the sports world, will take the stage in support of former President Trump on the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, Fox News has learned. 

Reports last week said White, a longtime friend and vocal supporter of the former president, is set to speak just before Trump is expected to formally accept the GOP presidential nomination.

Support from White on Thursday follows his strong reaction to the assassination attempt on the former president that took place over the weekend at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

“I’ve been saying this forever about this guy,” White said Monday during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.” 

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj.

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski seemed pessimistic on Thursday on President Biden continuing his election bid, admitting that he “may or may not be” the Democratic presidential nominee.

Brzezinski seemed resigned to prominent Democratic lawmakers’ push to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket to give them a better chance of beating former President Trump. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wields considerable influence and power in the Democratic Party, has been reportedly working behind the scenes on the effort and told Biden personally that he can’t win.

“I trust Joe Biden’s abilities. I also trust Nancy Pelosi’s political acumen. Nobody knows politics more than her,” Brzezinski said on Thursday. A strong supporter and longtime friend of Biden’s, Brzezinski has previously been strongly defensive of him staying in the race.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Gabriel Hays.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is questioning Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s decision to appear at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night, as House GOP leaders push for accountability for the security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

“I’m not sure what she was doing here. Why would she walk around when she’s under so much scrutiny?” Johnson told Fox News Digital in an interview at the RNC in Milwaukee. “I don’t understand her decision-making process, and I don’t think she’s fit to lead at this critical time.”

The embattled Secret Service director was seen in the RNC venue on Wednesday, where she was confronted by several Republican senators who have been dissatisfied with her answers thus far on what happened last weekend.

Johnson, for his part, is the highest-ranking official so far to call for Cheatle’s resignation in the wake of the deadly rally shooting in Butler, Pa. last weekend. 

Read the full story from Elizabeth Elkind here.

GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance shard a heartfelt moment in his speech Wednesday night about his mother, Bev Vance, sitting in the crowed and celebrating 10 years of sobriety.

“Our movement is about single moms, like mine, who struggled with money and addiction but never gave up,” Vance said from the stage.

“And I’m proud to say that tonight my mom is here ten years clean and sober. I love you, mom.”

The audience erupted in applause and stood to their feet chanting “JD’s mom.”

“And you know, mom, I was thinking — it’ll be ten years officially in January of 2025. And if President Trump’s okay with it, let’s have the celebration in the White House,” Vance added.

Vance detailed his challenging upbringing surrounded by struggles with addiction in his memoir published in 2016, Hillbilly Elegy.

Actor Dean Cain caught up with Fox News Digital at the Republican National Convention and remarked on how he feels about former President Donald Trump, especially since the assassination attempt on Saturday.

“The stuff that President Trump has been through, from the constant attacks when he ran for president in 2016, to the entire time through his presidency, and then when he reannounced,” Cain said. “All the law fair against him and, now, the assassination attempt. I don’t know what it is, but I’d like to bottle it and have it at home.”

The “Lois and Clark” actor added, “I’ve never seen a single individual take so many incoming attacks and remain so positive. He’s a remarkable human being and he’s got my full support.”

In 2023, Cain told Fox News Digital he left California for Nevada because of the cost of living and a California bill that would require judges to consider a parents’ stance on gender identity in custody battles.

On Wednesday night, Ohio senator JD Vance took center stage at the Republican National Convention to formally accept the nomination for vice president.

“I pledge to every American, no matter your party, I will give you everything I have to serve you. And to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your family and your country will be possible once again,” Vance said.

The author of the bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy
, also promised that he will be “a vice president who never forgets where he came from.”

Pundits and commentators took to X with their take on his remarks. National Review political correspondent Jim Geraghty said Vance “masterfully delivered an amazing speech” even though he disagreed with some tenets of the content.

“Vance’s speech was Obama-esque in its ability to take ideas that are controversial or divisive and make them sound full of common sense,” Geraghty said.

Political commentator Camryn Kinsey posted on X, “As someone from Kentucky who grew up in a struggling single-parent household during my early childhood, JD Vance’s RNC speech truly resonated with me.”

“His words were relatable, funny, personable, and genuinely authentic,” she said.

Beverley Hallberg of the District Media Group graded the speech “a C+.”

“The copy itself was a bit clunky since it shifted between serious and light throughout, & he struggled to navigate the delivery switches,” she noted “The Mammaw stories were gold, and he is most comfortable when talking policy.”

Ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod warned Wednesday that President Biden
 is no longer “in the position to win” in the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Trump on Saturday.

“This is inexorable and I don‘t say this with any pleasure at all because I worked with Joe Biden. He‘s served this country well for most of his life,” Axelrod said on CNN live at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.  

“But this is not the coda that he wants on his career. And I think that’s what people are telling him, that he can help improve the chances of winning a race that he says is existential, but the way he has to do it is to exit,” Axelrod continued. 

“There will be a discussion about whether it‘s the vice president [Kamala Harris] or not [as his replacement]. She certainly is the likely candidate, maybe not the certain candidate. But what is certain, is he is not in a position to win this race any longer.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Yael Halon.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, gave his first speech since receiving the Republican Party’s nomination for vice president on Wednesday.

The Hillbilly Elegy author mentioned his home state of Ohio 12 times during his remarks. “We gotta chill with the Ohio love. We gotta win Michigan too here,” Vance, a the Ohio State University alumni, said to the crowd.

The second most-mentioned states were Michigan and Pennsylvania, with both being talked about by Vance six times.

Kentucky was also a significant state for Vance, as he spent a portion of his childhood there with his grandmother, “Mamaw.” The state, which differs from the others as it traditionally votes red, was also mentioned by the Republican four times.

Vance further referenced pivotal midwestern battleground state Wisconsin, where the Republican National Convention is currently taking place, three times.

His heavy emphasis on these Rustbelt states comes as former President Trump has already signaled his intent to use Vance to his advantage in midwestern swing states.

“[Trump] just said, look, I think I’ve got to go save this country. I think you’re the guy who could help me in the best way,” Vance recalled Trump’s phone call to him on Fox News’ Hannity.

“You can help me govern, you can help me win, you can help me in some of these Midwestern states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and so forth,” he said Trump told him.

MILWAUKEE – Political woes stacking up against the Biden administration will “absolutely” injure the campaign of longtime Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, according to his Republican Senate competitor, Dave McCormick. 

“I think right now, what’s becoming clear is that this is an election that’s a choice between strength and weakness at the top of the ticket, and strength and weakness between myself and Sen. Casey,” McCormick said, saying that Biden’s record in office will “absolutely” hurt Casey’s campaign.

“The fact remains that 80% of Pennsylvanians think the country is going in the wrong direction. These pocketbook issues, like sky-high inflation, 20% rise in prices, 60% of Pennsylvanians live paycheck to paycheck. And it’s because of the bad decisions and policies of Casey and Biden – spending, the war on energy, the wide open border, 4,000 fentanyl deaths last year for Pennsylvanians,” McCormick said. 

McCormick is an Army combat veteran and former CEO of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, who served as the Commerce Department’s Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security as well as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under former President George W. Bush’s administration.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Emma Colton.

Social media commentators and journalists criticized President Biden for appearing to forget Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s name and only referring to him as a “Black man” in a recent interview, although others said the moment was being misread.

Biden has participated in a series of media appearances after his poor debate performance last month led to calls for him to withdraw from the race. 

“It’s all about treating people with dignity,” Biden said in an interview with Black Entertainment Television (BET). “I named the secretary of defense, a Black man.” 

“I named Ketanji Brown,” he added, referring to his appointment in 2022 of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Jeffrey Clark.

Panelists Elizabeth Pipko and Lauren Wright analyze JD Vance’s speech during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on “Fox News @ Night.”

“He talked about his very compelling and famous background. He was very loyal to Trump, while also showing a command of the issues and these really smooth communication skills that I think will serve him well,” Wright told Fox of Vance’s speech.

Wright added that she believes Trump doesn’t “need a lot of help,” but that there is “a lot of excitement” following the former president announcing Vance as his running mate.

“This convention was not about politicians, not about the media, elite, this was about the people,” Elizabeth Pipko told Fox News of the GOP convention. “It’s about showing people that this administration has left the people behind.”

Pipko said that the Biden-Harris campaign is “about raising money, it’s about campaigning, it’s about lying about who’s in charge, its about messaging and rhetoric, and not about policies that actually do the job for the people.”

As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump embarks on a campaign to win back the White House, he has laid out an economic vision that includes lower taxes, less regulation and steeper tariffs on China and other countries. 

Trump is in Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention, and is set to take the stage Thursday night.

Ahead of his keynote speech, here is everything that voters need to know about Trump’s economic agenda for a second term in office.

The coming election is particularly consequential because whichever party voters select to control the White House and Congress next year will determine the fate of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Enacted in 2017 by Republican lawmakers and Trump, the law drastically overhauled the nation’s tax code, including reducing the top individual income tax bracket to 37% from 39.6% and nearly doubling the size of the standard deduction. However, those changes to the individual section of the tax code are poised to sunset in 2025, meaning that many taxpayers – including those who earn less than $400,000 – will face steeper levies if the law is not extended.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business’ Megan Henney.

Decorated WWII and D-Day veteran Sgt. William Pekrul, 98, received a standing ovation and loud cheers following his emotional RNC speech on night three of the RNC, which was themed, “Make America Strong Once Again,” as he recalled poignant war experiences and enduring patriotism.

“It hurts my heart to see what our current president and vice president have done to the country I love so well,” Pekrul said of President Biden. “As we [get] pushed around by China, terrorists run wild in the Middle East, and they let our own southern border get overrun.”

Pekrul called “America the greatest nation in the history of the world” and said that when he came back from war in Europe, he “kissed the ground” and thanked God for his return.

RNC delegates gave Pekrul a standing ovation and chanted, “USA,” while former President Trump, who has been in attendance each night of the convention since Monday, smiled and applauded. 

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Jamie Joseph.

UFC president Dana White and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan are expected to take center stage Thursday night ahead of former President Donald Trump, Fox News has learned.

White over the weekend posted about Trump in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania.

White posted an iconic image of a bloodied Trump being escorted offstage following the shooting and called him an “American bad a–.”

President Biden tested positive for COVID-19, the White House said on Wednesday.

Biden was in Las Vegas, Nevada for several campaign events when the diagnosis was revealed and they were subsequently canceled.

Reporters shouted questions to the president as he boarded Air Force One, asking how he felt and if he was experiencing symptoms. Biden told them he feels “good,” giving a thumbs up.

“He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. “The White House will provide regular updates on the President’s status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation.”

The COVID-19 diagnosis comes as Biden faces a skeptical Democratic Party, with some pushing the 81-year-old president to drop out of the race, fearing he can’t defeat former President Trump in November.

California delegates for the Democratic Party are reportedly in disarray as debate over the president’s chances of re-election threatens to tear the party apart.

Private group chats across multiple social media platforms have been set up to facilitate discussion among the delegates, who almost universally worry that a second Biden term is an impossible sell to voters, according to Politico.

A cache of messages was reportedly leaked to the outlet — only the latest in a deluge of leaks from inside the Biden administration and the wider Democratic Party.

“Obviously, the first step would be that President Biden steps down of his own accord and frees his delegates,” DNC delegate Susan Bolle posted in a Facebook group discussing the issue. “We should discuss this. This is a painful experience on every level, but we play an outsized role in history this election. This cannot be left to chance.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Timothy H.J. Nerozzi.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed his speech at the Republican National Convention and Democrats calling on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race during an appearance on “Hannity.”

“I sure hope he holds on to the nomination, because I think they’re working to move him out” DeSantis told Fox News at the RNC. “We want to run against Joe Biden. Partially because we want to hold him accountable for his failure, but he also can’t get the job done.”

DeSantis, a former 2024 presidential candidate, delivered remarks during the second day of the RNC. The Governor slammed Biden throughout his speech, comparing his presidency to the film “Weekend at Bernie’s.”

The Governor also said that Biden remaining in office “has been a total fraud on the American people.”

“Having a president who is not in possession of his faculties, that is the threat to democracy,” he told Fox, adding that “I think we’ve got to be prepared that they are gonna put someone else in.”

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, spoke ahead of a Faith and Freedom breakfast in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Thursday after his remarks accepting the vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night.

As the lawmaker reflected on preparing for his Republican National Convention speech, he shared a “miracle” that occurred for him in the lead up to his remarks.

“We think about miracles. We think about Moses parting the Red sea,” he said. “But one of the really deep beliefs I have is that there are all of these small little miracles. And if you look for them, you actually see them.”

He then told attendees about how he woke up the morning of his speech in the middle of the night and was unable to fall back asleep. “I’m bored, alone, anxious, and thoughts are racing through my head a mile a minute,” Vance described.

“I finally just say, Jesus, please help me,” he said, adding that its the last thing he recalls before waking up.

Vance compared his experience to the movie Pulp Fiction, wherein a character named Jules says “I felt the touch of God.”

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A local GOP volunteer who helped set up and later attended former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend, said he and other activists raised concerns the night prior about the venue’s security.

Zach Scherer, a volunteer firefighter from Chicora – a short drive northeast of the Butler Farm Show – told Fox News Digital on Wednesday he was also in the third row behind Trump on the risers at the moment the former president was injured and fellow firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed.

“Friday night; I’ll take it back a day — there was a group of us that had volunteered on the Trump campaign to do rally set up, which included setting up the barricades, the stage set-up and other things that were needed to make sure this was a successful event,” Scherer said.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Charles Creitz.

MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested on Wednesday that President Biden recovering from COVID-19 is a “sign of strength” similar to former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt.

“These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo-op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,” Reid said during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention.

Reid added that the media is portraying Trump surviving the assassination attempt and shortly returning to the campaign by appearing at his party’s convention as a “sign of strength.”

“This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID, should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough – older than Trump – to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So, if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?,” Reid said.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Joshua Q. Nelson.

Variety’s chief film critic suggested on Wednesday that Sen. JD Vance may have risen to become former President Trump’s vice-running mate “thanks to Hollywood’s help.” 

The
2020 Netflix adaptation of Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” memoir surged to the top 10 most-watched list after Trump announced on Monday that the Ohio senator would be his running mate for the 2024 presidential race.

The book, as well as the film, recounts Vance’s upbringing in a small Ohio town plagued with addiction and poverty before eventually graduating from Yale.

“It was that dimension of Vance’s narrative that clearly attracted director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer — both self-avowed liberals, who may have created a monster by legitimizing his origin story, much as ‘The Apprentice’ producer Mark Burnett did by giving Trump a reality TV spotlight back in 2004,” Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge wrote. 

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick.

Five days after surviving an assassination attempt, former President Trump on Thursday will formally accept the GOP presidential nomination during the culminating moment of the 2024 Republican National Convention.

The shooting, at Trump’s rally Saturday in western Pennsylvania where one spectator was killed, along with the gunman, instantly impacted the tone and message of the convention, and altered the former president’s address.

The Trump campaign has said this week that the former president – following his brush with death – will use his speech to call for unity in the face of tragedy instead of criticizing his political adversaries. In an interview with the Washington Examiner on Sunday, Trump said “honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now,” adding that he was given “a chance to bring the country together.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser and Brooke Singman.

As the Republican National Convention continues and preparations are made for remarks from former President Trump on Thursday, here is a look back at his two previous addresses at the conventions in 2016 and 2020:

Following an unpredictable Republican presidential primary race in 2016, Trump made his debut at the RNC in Cleveland.

In his speech, Trump decried political correctness
, telling attendees, “It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation. I will present the facts plainly and honestly. … We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.”

Much of his remarks emphasized his vision for returning the U.S. to law and order, particularly as it relates to crime and the southern border.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Julia Johnson.

Hosting the Republican National Convention (RNC) is expected to pay off big for Milwaukee.The visitor’s bureau for the Wisconsin city says the convention is expected to bring an estimated $200 million economic boost to the area, based on studies of previous conventions in other cities, and the final figure for Milwaukee could be even higher given the high inflation the country has seen since 2020.

The RNC said ahead of the convention that upwards of 50,000 guests from across the country would flock to the gathering, including delegates, who officially nominated former President Trump as the GOP’s 2024 nominee for president, with Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate.

And it’s not just Republican diehards who came for the event. 

Visit Milwaukee CEO Peggy Williams-Smith told FOX Business in an interview Wednesday that reporters are everywhere, spending money just like other visitors.

“I would say for every regular attendee wanting to go to the convention, there are two journalists, and I think that number has spiked after the events of Saturday,” Williams-Smith said, referring to the assassination attempt on Trump over the weekend.

She reiterated, “You can’t go anywhere without running into someone with a press badge.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business’ Breck Dumas.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson held his daily news briefing Thursday morning ahead of the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention.

“The city’s preparation and performance has gone pretty smoothly,” he said.

Johnson thanked thousands of law enforcement and volunteers from “all across the country” and said he was briefed by the emergency operations center with respects to the convention and “was told again it was a very uneventful evening.”

The mayor said two incidents near the convention activity led to seven arrests. Both took place east of the river, just outside of the security perimeter. Two people were arrested for fights in the first situation. The second incident involved disorderly behavior outside a bar that ultimately led to five arrests, Johnson said. The mayor added that there was one “convention related arrest” of a person who allegedly stole tickets and then attempted to sell those tickets and that individual has since been taken into custody.

Overnight, Milwaukee police were involved in an exchange of gunfire “that was completely unrelated to the convention,” Johnson said. It happened at approximately 10:30 p.m. four miles northwest of the convention and involved a person wanted for a shooting two days ago who fired a gun at police. Police returned fire and that individual was wounded, the mayor said.

“This is not a common occurrence in Milwaukee,” he added.

Trump is to address the RNC in a highly anticipated speech Thursday night.

“Now I’ve got some major political differences with the former president and as he speaks what will be going on in my mind is the contrast with his policies that he’ll put forward and those of President Joe Biden,” Johnson told reporters. “The Biden-Harris administration has delivered investments in people. President Joe Biden has tackled serious problems and he’s done it with real solutions.”

MILWAUKEE – Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 race for the White House, struck a populist tone as he formally accepted the Republican Party’s vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, pledging he will be a vice president who “never forgets” where he came from.

Delivering his acceptance speech two days after Trump named the 39-year-old Ohio senator as his running mate, Vance said the GOP convention marked a “celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it will soon be again.”

“It is a reminder of the sacred duty we have to preserve the American experiment, to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren,” he added.

Vance – who described the Republican Party as being “united in our love for this country and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas” for the next four years – reflected fondly on his upbringing in a “small town where people spoke their minds.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Kyle Morris and Paul Steinhauser.

Gold Star father Herman Lopez and his wife Alicia spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention and honored the 13 service members who lost their lives during the
Afghanistan withdrawal ordered by President Biden in August 2021.

The service members — 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman and one soldier — were killed in the Abbey Gate bombing outside of the Kabul airport.

“Alicia and I are here to say the names of all 13 servicemembers who lost their lives at Abbey Gate,” Lopez said.

He went on to read the 13 names of those killed.

The individuals included Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, Cpl. Daegan W. Page, Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, Navy Hospital Corpsman Max Soviak, Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss and their son, Cpl. Hunter Lopez.

Donald J. Trump
 is often referred to as “President Trump” or “Mr. President,” and has formerly been known as “Commander in Chief,” “POTUS” and “45,” as he was the 45th President of the United States. He has also enjoyed several other prominent titles.

However, before Trump was the leader of the free world, he was lovingly known as “dad” to five children, including Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron, and “grandpa” to 10 grandchildren, beginning with the eldest, Kai.

Kai, 17, was seemingly ready to be cast into America’s political spotlight after she spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention on Day 3 of the event in Milwaukee.

“He calls me during the middle of the school day to ask how my golf game is going and tells me all about his, but then I have to remind him that I’m in school, and I’ll have to call him back later,” Trump’s granddaughter told a raucous crowd in Milwaukee.”

On Saturday, I was shocked when I heard that he has been shot, and I just wanted to know if he was okay,” Trump said, describing the events following the attempted assassination of the former president.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Gabriele Regalbuto.

University of North Carolina fraternity brothers joined Republicans at the 2024 RNC.

The group of students made headlines earlier this year when they protected the American flag from hitting the campus ground during a protest where anti-Israel agitators tried to replace Old Glory with a Palestinian flag.

“When a mob tried to take down the American flag on our campus, we knew we couldn’t let that happen,” said Alex Johnson, UNC fraternity brother. “We stood guard, we held it up and we did not let it fall.”

Johnson was joined by a group of his frat brothers who stood behind him each carrying a flag.

Johnson went on, “It was all about respect, not just for the cloth, but for everything that the flag stands for. Too many people have sacrificed everything for it.”

He concluded, “The least we could do is to keep it flying and tonight we are proud to honor our flag again.”

Former President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social Monday, the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention, that he selected Ohio Sen. JD Vance
as his running mate for the upcoming election in November.

On the third night of the RNC, Vance gave a speech accepting the nomination and encouraging Americans to vote for the Trump, Vance ticket.

“I stand here humbled and I am overwhelmed with gratitude to say, I officially accept your nomination to be Vice President of the United States of America,” Vance said.

The crowd roared in applause and began chanting “JD, JD, JD,” as Trump looked on and clapped with the room full of Republicans.

After weeks of speculation regarding who Trump would choose, Vance was chosen by the former president and has received much support for his selection since.

Trump is slated to conclude the RNC tonight with a speech of his own.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said it was “shameful” to hear about leaks pertaining to whether President Biden will stay in the presidential race.

“I can’t tell you all how shameful it feels to hear all these leaks about what Democratic leaders are staying and not to have a single one of them out here confirming or denying it,” she wrote on X.

The post comes amid multiple reports of Democratic leaders and donors calling for Biden to step aside.

“It’s a lack of leadership and it’s making all Democrats look bad,” she wrote. “Whatever this mess leads to will not undo the damage that has already been inflicted. May God help us all.” 

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., sent President Biden a letter last month where he urged him to reconsider whether to continue his presidential campaign while comparing him to a tiring baseball pitcher.

After praising Biden for three pages, Raskin then compared the president to now-retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martínez, a Hall of Famer. Fox News has confirmed the letter.

Martinez was left on the mound for the eighth inning of Game Seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series despite being tired, against the New York Yankees.

The Yankees scored three runs to tie the game before winning it when Aaron Boone hot a walk-off home run to send the team to the World Series.

“There is no shame in taking a well-deserved bow to the overflowing appreciation of the crowd when your arm is tired out, and there is real danger for the team in ignoring the statistics,” Raskin Wrote, The New York Times reported. “Your situation is tricky because you are both our star pitcher and our manager. But in democracy, as you have shown us more than any prior president, you are not a manager acting all alone; you are the co-manager along with our great team and our great people. Caucus with the team, Mr. President. Hear them out. You will make the right decision.”

Biden has rebuffed calls to step aside despite pressure from fellow Democrats and major donors.

Major donors in New York City made it clear to Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries they want President Biden to drop out of the presidential race, according to a source who attended a recent fundraising event.

Jefferies was at the Wednesday fundraiser in Manhattan with 40 or so major donors. The event was for Democratic U.S. Reps. Eric Sorenson of New York and Yadira Caraveo of Colorado.

During a question and answer session, the first question came from someone asking why Biden won’t step down, the source told Fox News. The person asked the room: “Who here wants Biden to step down?”

Upwards of 80% of people in the room raised their hands, prompting Jefferies to half-smile while acknowledging what happened.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates responded to reports of the event on X: “Incorrect. Keep the faith.” 

Former President Trump’s campaign is contrasting what they call a “unified” GOP at the Republican National Convention with the latest turmoil surrounding President Biden’s re-election bid.

On Thursday, a Trump campaign official told Fox News “when you look at what we’ve done with this convention, we’ve demonstrated to the American people that not only is the Republican Party unified, but we have a unifying vision for the entire country with President Trump’s agenda and plan for America well established.”

“At the same time, the Democrats can’t even figure out who their nominee should be,” the official argued.

The comments come as President Biden’s re-election campaign is pushing back against a slew of reports in the past 24 hours that the president has become more receptive in the last couple of days to hearing arguments about why he should drop his 2024 re-election run.

“Our campaign is not working through any scenarios where President Biden is not at the top of the ticket. He is and will be the Democratic nominee,” Biden principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told reporters at a news conference Thursday morning near the site of the Republican National Convention.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser.

Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, on Thursday.

“He did not talk about it because their plans are extreme and they are divisive,” Harris told supporters in Fayetteville about of remarks made by Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Trump’s running mate, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “You cannot claim you stand for unity if you are pushing an agenda that deprives whole groups of Americans of basic freedoms, opportunity and dignity.”

Harris was stumping while President Biden
has been sidelined after testing positive for COVID-19 Wednesday. Biden is under pressure from within his own party and major donors to drop out of the race.

Project 2025, a 900-page document, was created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and not associated with the Trump campaign. Trump has distanced himself from the proposal as Democrats try and make it a liability for him.

From overhauling the Justice Department and FBI to tackling issues like abortion and immigration, the effort led by the nation’s top conservative think tank is organized into specific chapters for different agencies.

“From what I’ve heard, it’s not too far, it’s way too far,” Trump told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner this week. “They’ve gone, really, too far.”

In a Truth Social post, he called the plan “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”

“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump wrote. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Fox News Digital’s Kyle Morris contributed to this report.

Some of President Biden’s most fervent internal supporters now believe that the writing is on the wall as major donations has subsided and top allies have called on the Democratic incumbent to step aside, NBC News reported, citing five people with knowledge of the situation.

“We’re close to the end,” a person close to Biden reportedly said, according to NBC.

That person reportedly acknowledged that it’s still Biden’s decision whether or not to drop out.

A spokesperson for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., condemned the press “feeding frenzy” in response to a report that the former House Speaker told President Biden that polls show he cannot defeat former President Trump and will take down the House.

“Speaker Pelosi respects the confidentiality
of her meetings & conversations with the President of the United States. Sadly, the feeding frenzy from the press based on anonymous sources misrepresents any conversations the Speaker may have had with the President,” a Pelosi spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement.

It came in response to a report by CNN, citing four unnamed sources, that claimed Pelosi told Biden in a phone call that polls are showing he cannot win against Trump in November and that him staying in the race could destroy Democrats’ chances of taking the House.

The phone call marked the second time Pelosi and Biden spoke since the president’s disastrous debate performance against former President Trump on June 27, according to a CNN report Thursday citing four sources briefed on the call. The sources also told CNN that the former speaker did not tell Biden to drop out of the race. 

Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the physician to the President of the United States, said in letter Thursday that President Biden is still experiencing mild upper respiratory symptoms associated with his recent COVID-19 infection.

Biden does not have a fever and his vital signs remain normal, O’Conner wrote. The president will continue to conduct the business of the American people.

With the president’s permission, O’Connor said he will continue to provide regular updates.

Fox News’ Pat Ward contributed to this report.

A Biden campaign official took to X on Thursday pushing back against an Axios report citing unnamed top Democrats who believe the president could drop out as soon as this weekend.

“Joe Biden is his party’s nominee. He’s the President of the United States. He’s running for reelection,” TJ Ducklo, a senior adviser for the Biden campaign, wrote on X. “Baseless conjecture from anonymous sources isn’t a scoop. Tonight a convicted felon will talk about how he’ll make people’s lives worse if he gains power. Let’s focus.”

Though Biden has publicly insisted he would not drop out, several top Democrats told Axios they believe the president has privately conceded to poll numbers and growing pressure from party congressional leaders, close friends and key donors insisting that he can’t win in November.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to deliver a highly anticipated speech on the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday night.

A well-connected adviser and fundraising coordinator
for President Biden’s campaign is reportedly warning that donations are at risk of drying up, according to reports. 

Film producer and Democratic insider Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly spoke with Biden in a private meeting in Las Vegas, on Wednesday. 

During the meeting, Katzenberg allegedly told the president that major donors were likely to cut funding due to concerns about the campaign’s viability, according to Semafor and Deadline.

Following the report, Katzenberg released a statement saying the characterization was inaccurate and that the two had “talked about everything from the convention to new ads.” “And by the way, we will raise the money we need to run a winning campaign,” he added.

This is an excerpt from an article
 by Fox News Digital’s Timothy Nerozzi.

Former President Barack Obama told his allies in recent days that he believes President Biden needs to reconsider his candidacy, The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing multiple people briefed on his thinking.

A source familiar with Obama’s thinking, asked about the new Washington Post report, tells Fox News that the former president “continues to see his primary role as a sounding board and counselor for
President Biden, as they have long done for each other for many years now. He believes Joe Biden has been an outstanding President and is protective of him both personally and of the Biden administration’s strong and historic accomplishments.”

Obama reportedly has spoken with Biden only once since his disastrous debate performance last month. According to the Post, Obama has expressed serious concern to his allies, however, about the viability of Biden’s candidacy and remains focused on preserving Biden’s legacy.

In his discussions with others, Obama reportedly has emphasized that Biden alone can make the decision to step away from the race. Obama has also pushed back against the idea that he alone can influence Biden, his former vice president, to withdraw from his presidential re-election bid.

Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

President Biden’s allies reportedly retaliated against Rep. Hillary Scholten, a first term Democrat from Michigan, after she called for him to step away from his re-election bid.

Scholten, who flipped a traditionally red seat in 2022, was removed from a coordinated effort between the Biden campaign and the state Democratic party to elect candidates up and down the ticket last week, Politico reported, citing four people with knowledge of the situation.

The congresswoman was kicked out shortly after she called for Biden to drop out. The decision to exclude Scholten came from the state Democratic party, two sources told Politico.

Politico reached out to the Biden campaign on Wednesday for comment.

Scholten was reportedly welcomed back to the combined field effort involves the presidential, Senate and House races on Thursday morning.

If she was kept off, Democratic organizers campaigning in her district would have mentioned Biden and the party’s Senate nominee, but not Scholten, Politico reported.

“Rep. Scholten is welcome at the coordinated campaign and we look forward to campaigning with her this fall,” Mia Ehrenberg, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, told Politico.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted President Biden’s inner circle on Thursday, urging those close to the 81-year-old president to “step up” and help him “do the right thing.”

Biden is facing growing calls from Democrats to drop out of the race.

“This is not going to end well if it continues to drag out,” Scarborough said on his “Morning Joe” talk show. “It’s really incumbent on people that are around Joe Biden to step up at this point and help the president and help the man they love and do the right thing.”

“The anger I hear are at the people that are keeping him in a bubble or who may have their own interests, some financial, in keeping him in the race. That is the real anger,” Scarborough continued. “It is widespread. Joe Biden deserves better. He deserves better than he is getting from those closest to him.”

Scarborough noted his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinksi’s relationship with the Biden family.

“We have known him for a long time,” Scarborough said. “Mika and her family, extraordinarily close to the Bidens.”

The left-leaning program “Morning Joe” was reportedly pulled from the air on Monday following the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Several top Democrats
told Axios on Thursday they now believe President Biden will discontinue his re-election campaign. The decision reportedly could come as soon as this weekend.

Though Biden has publicly insisted he would not drop out, the Democratic lawmakers told Axios they believe the president has privately conceded to poll numbers and growing pressure from party congressional leaders, close friends and key donors insisting that he can’t win in November.

Biden is self-isolating in Delaware after testing positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, the White House said. The Democrats who spoke to Axios say they expect blowout poll numbers after the Republican National Convention concludes in Milwaukee that could spell disaster for Democrats in Congress this November.

“His choice is to be one of history’s heroes, or to be sure of the fact that there’ll never be a Biden presidential library,” one of the president’s close friends reportedly told Axios. “I pray that he does the right thing. He’s headed that way.”

MILWAUKEE – President Biden’s re-election campaign is pushing back against a slew of reports in the past 24 hours that the president has become more receptive in the last couple of days to hearing arguments about why he should drop his 2024 re-election run.

“Our campaign is not working through any scenarios where President Biden is not at the top of the ticket. He is and will be the Democratic nominee, Biden principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told reporters at a news conference Thursday morning near the site of the Republican National Convention.

Fulks emphasized that “the president has said it several times. He’s staying in this race” and “we look forward to him accepting the delegates in Chicago and continuing with this race to talk about what’s at stake.”

Following his disastrous debate performance last month in his face-to-face showdown with former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP presidential nominee, the 81-year-old Biden has been facing questions about whether he has the physical and mental capabilities to serve another four years in the most demanding job in the world. And politically, Biden’s been pushing back against a rising chorus of calls to end his campaign from elected Democrats, who are deeply concerned about the possibility of the party not only losing the White House but both houses of Congress in the autumn election.

Asked a second time at the news conference if Biden may consider stepping aside, Fulks responded that the president “is not wavering on anything. The president has made his decision. I don’t to be rude, but I do not know how many more times we can answer that. Joe Biden has said he is running for President of the United States. Our campaign is moving forward.”

Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., told Reuters
that President Biden is “working towards” a decision on whether he’ll continue his re-election bid that is “good for the country.”

“Joe Biden has always put the country first. He’s done what’s best for America…I think he’ll keep doing so,” Hickenlooper told Reuters in a phone interview late Wednesday. “He’s working towards that.”

The senator, a former Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 before Biden won the nomination, stopped short of joining the growing list of members of his party explicitly calling on Biden to step aside. Reuters asked Hickenlooper about Biden potentially stopping his re-election campaign.

“That’s his decision to make, but certainly there’s more and more indications that that would be in the best interests of the country, I think,” Hickenlooper responded.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi
, D-Calif., the former Speaker of the House, had a second phone conversation with President Biden to insist that polling shows he cannot win against former President Trump, CNN reported, citing four sources briefed on the call. Pelosi reportedly told Biden that he could ruin Democrats’ prospects of winning the House in November if he stays in the race.

One source reportedly described Biden’s response as defensive. Another source said the president told Pelosi that he’s seen polling data that shows he can defeat Trump. Biden reportedly at one point asked his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon, to join the call to discuss the data. The call reportedly happened within the past week.

It’s the second known phone conversation between the president and Pelosi since Biden’s stalling and stumbling debate performance against Trump in Atlanta last month.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer reportedly told President Biden in a “blunt one-on-one conversation” Saturday it would be best if he “bowed out of the race,” according to an ABC report on X.

“Chuck Schumer had a blunt one-on-one conversation with Biden Saturday afternoon in Rehoboth. Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be best if Biden bowed out of the race,”  ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote. “Schumer’s office wouldn’t comment on the specifics of the conversation, telling me only, ‘Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus.’”

The Senate majority leader’s office issued a similar response obtained by Fox News Digital on Wednesday, but waved off ABC’s report.

“Unless ABC’s source is Senator Chuck Schumer or President Joe Biden the reporting is idle speculation,” a spokesperson for Sen. Schumer said. “Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus directly to President Biden on Saturday.”

The news comes as the New York Democrat pushed for the Democratic National Convention’s delay as questions persist about President Biden’s 2024 candidacy due to concerns over his mental acuity, according to multiple sources.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Jamie Joseph.

California delegates for the Democratic Party are reportedly in disarray as debate over the president’s chances of re-election threatens to tear the party apart.

Private group chats across multiple social media platforms have been set up to facilitate discussion among the delegates, who almost universally worry that a second Biden term is an impossible sell to voters, according to Politico.

A cache of messages was reportedly leaked to the outlet — only the latest in a deluge of leaks from inside the Biden administration and the wider Democratic Party.

“Obviously, the first step would be that President Biden steps down of his own accord and frees his delegates,” DNC delegate Susan Bolle posted in a Facebook group discussing the issue. “We should discuss this. This is a painful experience on every level, but we play an outsized role in history this election. This cannot be left to chance.”

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Timothy H.J. Nerozzi.

Former President Trump wanted to attend the public viewing for the man who was shot and killed during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, but was told no by the Secret Service.

Fox News confirmed that Trump had wanted to attend the public viewing for Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who shielded his family from flying bullets during a Trump rally on Saturday and ultimately died.

But the Secret Service told Trump not to attend the wake due to an inability to secure the densely wooded area nearby.

On Thursday, firefighters and a procession of law enforcement vehicles accompanied the casket of 50-year-old Comperatore.

Uniformed military personnel were seen securing a perimeter around Laube Hall in Freeport on Thursday morning, checking the roof and surroundings of the building ahead of a vigil for Comperatore.

Thursday’s public viewing, scheduled to take place between 2 and 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m., caused road closures for the large preceding fire truck procession.

Fox News’ CB Cotton and Christina Coulter contributed to this report.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called on President Biden
to provide “absolute transparency” and that his administration provides daily updates on the investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Scott sent a letter to Biden, carbon copying Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, saying there is a lot of information about the attempted assassination of Trump floating around, adding that people naturally assume the worst when there is a lack of transparency.

“I write today to urge you and your administration to take every action necessary to share updates with President Trump, Congress and the American people, and answer questions about what happened, who is being held accountable and how we make sure it never happens again,” the senator from Florida wrote. “Now is the time for absolute transparency and accountability.”

Scott pressed the president for his administration to provide answers that U.S. Senators and Americans are demanding regarding the shooting, from the government, calling on Biden to take daily action to show accountability.

He asked the president to have Wray, Cheatle and Mayorkas to hold a daily public press conference, sharing updates and answers to questions from Americans.

“It is a miracle that President Trump is alive and well, but absolutely inexcusable that the deranged would-be assassin had a direct line of sight to the former president and the leading candidate for President of the United States,” Scott wrote. “It is imperative that the American people know that the U.S. government is answering questions and holding people accountable for the failures that led to this totally preventable tragedy.”

Scott told Biden he expects an immediate response with answers to a number of questions he posed to him and his administration.

The FBI declined to attend a hearing with the House Homeland Security Committee next week, on the events leading to a shooting during a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that nearly claimed the life of former President Trump.

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green confirmed the FBI declined to attend the hearing, scheduled for next week.

FBI Director Christopher Wray is still expected to testify before the House Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday, July 24.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

A source tells Fox News that former President Trump has met with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in Milwaukee — the site of the Republican National Convention — following last weekend’s shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The meeting on Wednesday was described by the source as short.

Cheatle has been facing calls to step down from her position following the attempted assassination against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

When Cheatle appeared at Republican National Convention on Wednesday, she was confronted by several senators demanding answers.

Fox News’ Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.

EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is questioning Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s decision to appear at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night, as House GOP leaders push for accountability for the security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

“I’m not sure what she was doing here. Why would she walk around when she’s under so much scrutiny?” Johnson told Fox News Digital in an interview at the RNC in Milwaukee. 

“I don’t understand her decision-making process, and I don’t think she’s fit to lead at this critical time.”

The embattled Secret Service director was seen in the RNC venue on Wednesday, where she was confronted by several Republican senators who have been dissatisfied with her answers thus far on what happened last weekend.

Johnson, for his part, is the highest-ranking official so far to call for Cheatle’s resignation in the wake of the deadly rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, last weekend. 

Retired Secret Service agent Mike Matranga told ‘America’s Newsroom’ on Thursday that the Trump rally shooting is a “catastrophic failure of communications.”  

“The last five days, the director or upper administration of the Secret Service failing to even address the American people or to point the finger solely at the local law enforcement is just not right,” Matranga said. “The American people deserve better, the former President deserves better, the individuals who were harmed and the individual who succumbed to his injuries deserves better. 

“At the end of the day we just need to say what it is, this is a catastrophic failure of communications,” Matranga added. “We have known this for decades, that we rely too heavily on our local counterparts to do the jobs that we are designed to do.” 

“This is a catastrophic failure – any other explanation beyond that is just completely asinine,” Matranga concluded. 

BUTLER, Pa. – The Trump rally shooter searched “major depressive disorder” before he nearly killed the former president, FBI director Chris Wray told Congress, according to reports.

Investigators uncovered the medical search on Thomas Matthew Crooks’ cellphone, along with the times and dates of the Democratic and Republican national conventions and photos of Trump and President Biden, The New York Times reported. 

Crooks appears to be on good terms with his parents, who are both counselors, but they weren’t part of his daily life, according to The Times. 

Wray revealed the investigators’ findings during Wednesday’s congressional hearing, where he said the FBI has conducted 200 interviews and combed through 14,000 images on Crooks’ phone.

Despite the voluminous investigation, there is still no definitive motive for Saturday’s attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, Wray told lawmakers during a hearing Wednesday. 

Lackawanna County commissioners have announced that they have “indefinitely suspended Community Relations Manager Rick Notari” over “an inappropriate comment he made on social media following the assassination attempt Saturday against former President Donald Trump.” 

“Lackawanna County’s government serves all of its residents regardless of their political affiliations,” Commissioner Matt McGloin said in a statement. “An attempt on a former president, and current presidential candidate’s life, is a time for the country to come together to condemn political violence, rather than deepen existing divisions through inappropriate commentary on social media.” 

Lackawanna County is in northeastern Pennsylvania and includes the city of Scranton. 

The Scranton Times-Tribune is reporting that Notari wrote on X “It’s a shame the guy missed” in response to a post that sports commentator Rich Eisen made regarding the shooting. 

The family of Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old volunteer firefighter who was shot and killed over the weekend at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, has released a statement Thursday calling his death “unthinkable.” 

“Corey Comperatore was our beloved father and husband, and a friend to so many throughout the Butler region. He was a local leader and veteran, a former fire chief, and a committed Christian who found peace and joy through our church. He loved and cared for us, his family,” the statement says. 

“Our family is finding comfort and peace through the heartfelt messages of encouragement from people around the world, through the support of our church and community, and most of all through the strength of God. We thank the countless people who have prayed for us throughout the past week. We deeply appreciate your kindness,” it continued. 

“We ask for your continued prayers and privacy as we mourn and adjust to the realities of Corey’s unthinkable passing,” the statement added. 

Helen Comperatore, Corey’s widow, wrote on Facebook this week that Trump has called her and was “very kind.” 

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source.

It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was already holding it.

“We went from golf range finder to AR-15, and now we have to fill in the gap,” the source told Fox News.

When authorities first observed Crooks carrying a golf range finder Saturday, he was perceived as a
“person of interest” but not a “threat,” authorities said Thursday.

Range finders were not banned from rally events at the time, but authorities are expected to review the list of items that are not allowed.

He did not become an official threat until he was seen with a weapon.

Fox News’ David Spunt contributed to this report.

The director of the Secret Service has agreed to testify at an upcoming House hearing probing the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee subpoenaed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear in front of Congress as part of the open investigation into the Trump-rally shooting, claiming the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secret Service “failed to provide assurance regarding your appearance” as reasoning.

Cheatle has since agreed to comply with the subpoena, the committee announced Wednesday evening.

“Americans demand and deserve answers from Director Cheatle about the attempted assassination of President Trump and the Secret Service’s egregious failures,” the GOP-led committee wrote on X after Cheatle agreed to appear.

Bloomberg is reporting that documents it received from the Secret Service reveal that agents responded to dozens of potential threats against former President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. 

The documents highlighted repeated incidents in which people gained unauthorized access to the property while Trump was there,
according to Bloomberg. 

But the report says it doesn’t appear any of the people that got into Mar-a-Lago posed an immediate threat to Trump and many were charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, while others were sent to local mental health facilities. 

In one instance in 2018, an 18-year-old college student showed up at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was there and was allowed through a Secret Service checkpoint following a screening. 

A document stated that the individual “was on the property for approximately 10 minutes and posted multiple Snapchat videos, one of which was titled ‘Sneaking into Trump club is like taking candy from a baby.’” 

That student later was questioned and told agents “he wanted to explore and was curious” before being “sent on his way,” the document continues. 

But the individual eventually was charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, Bloomberg reports. 

In another 2018 case, a man was arrested for criminal trespassing after showing up at Mar-a-Lago telling the Secret Service that he “wanted President Trump to sign an executive order to release six trillion dollars he believed he was owed for his marketing strategy associated with the production of a video game rental idea,” according to a document obtained by Bloomberg. 

“He believed President Trump was holding his money hostage in an attempt to collect a percentage of his earnings and insisted President Trump should be executed through the Executive Branch for his actions,” the document added. 

CNN’s Van Jones said the differences between former President Trump and President Biden couldn’t be starker after Biden came down with COVID-19 Wednesday.

The political commentator took part in a panel covering the Republican National Convention as news broke about the president testing positive for COVID-19 and having to quarantine. This announcement came as more and more high-profile Democrats have reportedly called on Biden to leave the presidential race.

Biden’s diagnosis showed a clear sign of weakness compared to the former president recently surviving an assassination attempt, according to the former Obama adviser.

“There are a lot of people who want Biden to stay in. A lot of those people pointing out that still grassroots love Joe Biden, but everybody doesn’t agree. But today is a terrible day. If you pull back and look at this thing: strength versus weakness. A bullet couldn‘t stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden,” Jones said.

Trump shooter
Thomas Matthew Crooks was perceived by the U.S. Secret Service as a “person of interest,” not yet a “threat” after law enforcement saw him acting suspiciously and determined he had a golf range finder, according to Secret Service Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.   

Crooks was only identified as a threat when he “retrieved the weapon” and climbed onto the roof, according to Guglielmi, who adds that a threat requires, “a different protocol and a different course of action than a person of interest.” 

Guglielmi maintains that it was only once Crooks retrieved his weapon and got on the roof that he was identified as a threat. 

Soon after that Butler Township police officers confronted Crooks on the roof and he pointed his weapon at one of them, who then dropped off the roof. 

Crooks then fired on former president Trump and was taken out by a Secret Service counter sniper. 

Fox News’ Jake Gibson and David Spunt contributed to this report.

Fox News has been told that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle flew to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to make a “courtesy connection” with the Secret Service on the ground there after the assassination attempt against former President Trump in Pennsylvania. 

The convention organizers were aware that Cheatle was there and told senators – and later four of them were captured on video confronting Cheatle: John Barrasso of Wyoming, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and James Lankford of Oklahoma. 

After being pursued by the senators – who told her that they owe the people and the president “answers” — Cheatle finally said to them “this is not the venue.” 

In addition, Fox News has learned that Cheatle was on a Senate call yesterday where FBI Director Christopher Wray briefed lawmakers on the investigation into Saturday’s shooting, although she was not billed as being a participant. 

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on ‘Mornings with Maria’ on Thursday that he is ready to call on President Biden to fire Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the U.S. Secret Service. 

“I’m prepared this morning to call on President Biden to fire Director Cheadle. Yesterday I said that she should resign,” Johnson said. “It’s clear that she has no intention to do so. But the oversight here, the mistakes, the ineptitude, whatever it is, was inexcusable.  

“We almost lost the life of a former president. And I think there has to be accountability. And it begins at the top. This is ridiculous,” Johnson added. 

Cheatle so far has resisted calls from lawmakers to resign from her position. 

“Continuity of operations is paramount during a critical incident and U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has no intentions to step down. She deeply respects members of Congress and is fiercely committed to transparency in leading the Secret Service through the internal investigation and strengthening the agency through lessons learned in these important internal and external reviews,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement late Wednesday. 

Fox News’ Scott McDonald contributed to this report. 

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on ‘Mornings with Maria’ on Thursday that lawmakers “really are going to get to the bottom of this” when it comes to the Secret Service’s handling of Saturday’s Trump assassination attempt. 

The interview unfolded after Republican senators confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle
at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, telling her that they owe the people and the president “answers.” 

Video shows Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., confronting Cheatle in Milwaukee. Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., were also involved. 

“Stonewalling,” Barrasso can be heard yelling at Cheatle as she moves through the convention center. 

“I’m glad that they were trying to get answers from her,” Donalds said Thursday. 

“We really are going to get to the bottom of this. And I will also say we have members on the other side of the aisle who are taking this just as seriously… I mean, you have Democrat members who want to get to the bottom of this just as much as Republicans,” he added. 

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

The 20-year-old loner who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Saturday had an account on the encrypted Discord app, a sign that he preferred anonymous interactions to real-world relationships, experts told Fox News Digital.

A spokesperson for the platform confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks had an account and that it had been deactivated by Discord after the assassination attempt that wounded Trump and killed a rally attendee.

“It was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence or discuss his political views,” the spokesperson said. “Discord strongly condemns violence of any kind, including political violence, and we will continue to coordinate closely with law enforcement.”

Fox News learned late Wednesday that Crooks wrote an ominous message on the gaming platform Steam, “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.” His laptop also had searches in early July for Trump,
Biden, when is DNC convention, and July 13 Trump rally.

Retired FBI agent and behavior analysis expert Jim Clemente said the Discord community is especially popular with gamers and that Crooks’ usage comes as no surprise.

“It’s encrypted, so it does provide a level of privacy and anonymity,” he said. “So, somebody who might feel disenfranchised, a loner who felt bullied, those kinds of people, it’s very common for them to spend more time online interacting with others rather than the real world because their experiences with the real world are so negative.”

A former SWAT commander balked at the “audacity” of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle blaming the “sloped roof” for not positioning snipers on the building where Thomas Crooks opened fire at Saturday’s rally for former President Trump.

Gene Petrino, who served as the SWAT commander for Florida’s Plantation Police Department for 26 years and is an expert on active shooter incidents, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that Cheatle’s “sloped roof theory” was “shocking.”

He added that there were clearly more favorable spots for snipers to scope out the venue in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Crooks killed one man and injured three others, including Trump.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point,” Cheatle said in an interview with ABC News. “And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof… the decision was made to secure the building from the inside.”

“This site plan should have identified that roof as a major vulnerability,” Petrino said, “but there was no one there to protect it.” 

“The audacity for her to say that there was an issue with the sloped roof when her men were already on a sloped roof,” he said, referring to published photos of other Secret Service snipers perched on sloped roofs in the vicinity. 

Petrino also said he was puzzled by an apparent lack of drone surveillance at the rally, and questioned why snipers hadn’t been stationed at a water tower that “would have had a vantage point of all the roofs,” which is visible in aerial photos of the area surrounding the rally site.

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks says the 20-year-old gunman was quiet with a small friend group, noting that she would never have pegged him for his actions at the Trump rally.

Sarah D’Angelo, a nursing student, shared with Fox News Digital her scant interactions with Crooks as the pair attended school together for eight years and shared a homeroom classroom at Bethel Park High School.

D’Angelo painted a portrait of Crooks’ personality, interests and perception at the school.

“He had a small friend group,” D’Angelo said. “He wasn’t a loner but was not the most popular kid in the class.”

The 20-year-old’s political leanings have been a hot topic, with people pointing to his Republican voter registration and others pointing to his $15 campaign donation to a progressive political action committee. 

D’Angelo said Crooks did not reveal his political affiliation in class, even as the classmates shared an American politics class in high school.

“We had [an] American politics class. It was half a year during senior year,” she said. “And he never made any of his political views outward.”

An executive security expert ripped Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle for failing to protect former President Trump on Saturday, saying the agency needs to clean house, especially after her “sloped roof” excuse. 

Bill Stanton, who has worked in the field for four decades, took aim at Cheatle’s assertion that agents passed on manning a nearby roof used by shooter Thomas Crooks because it was sloped.

The would-be assassin climbed to the roof of the building and squeezed off several rounds that injured Trump and killed rally attendee Corey Comperatore. Two others were critically wounded.

“Her explanation that it was dangerous that the roof was pitched to me is the equivalent of a school child saying that the dog ate their homework,” Stanton said. “How does that pass muster for anybody, regardless of political affiliation?” 

Stanton said Trump was inches from certain death and that Cheatle would have been squarely to blame.

“God forbid that bullet was 1 inch over to the right, and it actually killed our former president,” he said. “Was that the excuse she was going to give, that the roof was too pitched, and she still has a job?”

Dr. Houman Hemmati, speaking on ‘Fox News Live,’ said former President Trump “avoided, narrowly, getting an injury to the facial nerve which is a nerve that branches out right from where the ear is and innervates the muscles of the face, including the mouth and the eye lids and where the cheeks are.” 

Hemmati said the nerve is “involved in smiling and just being able to keep your face up.” 

“I was looking [at Trump] very closely at the convention, it looks like he is able to smile normally, everything is working just fine,” Hemmati continued.  

“It looks like a chunk of his ear may be missing, which is probably why he is covering it at this point,” Hemmati also said, describing Trump’s injuries after being shot on Saturday during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “It may need some reconstructive surgery, but I think that is going to be mostly cosmetic in President Trump’s case.”

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A local GOP volunteer who helped set up and later attended former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend, said he and other activists raised concerns the night prior about the venue’s security.

Zach Scherer, a volunteer firefighter from Chicora – a short drive northeast of the Butler Farm Show – told Fox News Digital on Wednesday he was also in the third row behind Trump on the risers at the moment the former president was injured and fellow firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed.

“Friday night; I’ll take it back a day — there was a group of us that had volunteered on the Trump campaign to do rally set up, which included setting up the barricades, the stage set-up and other things that were needed to make sure this was a successful event,” Scherer said.

“We did a walk through at 7 PM on Friday night, and we raised multiple concerns with the state GOP staff about parking, about security issues we saw, where there were a lack of barricades at.”

“And all of our safety concerns that we that we brought up on Friday evening were strictly turned down and there were no answers given to any of our questions or concerns about security in that matter,” he added.

Scherer said he has volunteered for at least 20 other Trump rallies and that whenever security or logistics concerns were brought to party or law enforcement officials, they were rectified by the time the event began.

“We always saw the change in place the day of the rally. And [Butler] was the first one that I saw no changes made from Friday night to Saturday morning when we got there at 7:30 [AM].”

Fox News has learned that U.S. senators were told during an all-member briefing on Wednesday, July 17, that former President Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, wrote a threatening message on a gaming platform ahead of his shooting.

On “Steam,” a popular platform where gamers purchase games and communicate, Crooks allegedly wrote: “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.”

When investigators reviewed the laptop, they found a few searches in July of: Trump, Biden, when is DNC convention, and July 13 Trump rally.

Investigators found no evidence of a particular ideology on the laptop, which the FBI believes is notable, and nobody in interviews reported Crooks discussing politics.

The senators learned that the suspect had two cell phones. The primary phone was recovered from the scene along with a remote transmitter. A secondary cell phone was found at the home, it had only 27 contacts. The FBI is in the process of tracking down and interviewing those people.

Fox News Channel Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s office sent a statement late Wednesday that said she will not step down as the agency’s director after top Washington lawmakers have called for her removal following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

“Continuity of operations is paramount during a critical incident and U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has no intentions to step down. She deeply respects members of Congress and is fiercely committed to transparency in leading the Secret Service through the internal investigation and strengthening the agency through lessons learned in these important internal and external reviews,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi stated.

The remark came on a day when Cheatle took part in a briefing with U.S. Senators regarding the attempted assassination of Trump at his rally in Butler, Penn., last Saturday.

GOP Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and John Barrasso of Wyoming confronted Cheatle at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday to demand the director to answer questions about the agency’s leadership.

Blackburn said that Cheatle would not answer their questions, telling the Republican senators it was not the time or place. Blackburn also tweeted Cheatle escaping the senators as they questioned her at the convention.

“This was after we’ve been through a conference call today where the questions queue got cut off,” Blackburn said. “But I’ve got a message for her: she can run but she can’t hide because the American people want to know how an assassination attempt was carried out on former President Donald Trump.”

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz, Aishah Hasnie and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.