Former President Donald Trump will not be canceling any scheduled events despite being the target of an “apparent assassination attempt” that was thwarted at his golf course in Florida on Sunday, according to the FBI. Of the notable swing states this election cycle, Trump is scheduled to visit Michigan and North Carolina.
On Tuesday, Trump will travel to Flint, Michigan, for a town-hall-style event with his former press secretary, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR), according to the New York Times. The next day he will head to his home state of New York for a rally in Uniondale at the Nassau Coliseum. On Thursday, he will be in Washington, D.C., to attend an event for a pro-Israel group. This weekend, he will hold a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
His running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), is also hitting the campaign trail. Vance will visit Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Tuesday for his second visit to the state’s northwestern city and fifth visit to the state since being tapped to run alongside Trump. He will also visit Sparta, Michigan, on Tuesday and Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday. On Saturday, Vance will speak at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s live tour in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Vice President Kamala Harris will also hit the campaign trail as Election Day looms, just 50 days away. Harris will head to Michigan for a virtual campaign event with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday and later visit Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Harris’s running mate, will be in Macon and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as Asheville, North Carolina, this week.
Following the first assassination attempt on Trump, when he was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, the former president similarly did not cancel any of his scheduled events. Trump was shot on a Saturday and made it to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Monday for the start of the Republican National Convention.
“As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened, and therefore, I’ll tell you what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time because it’s too painful to tell,” Trump said during his acceptance speech at the RNC as he recounted the Butler assassination attempt. He has since retold his experience during campaign rallies.
“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” He continued.
According to the New York Times, Trump does not wish to drastically change his lifestyle following the attempt.
Fox News host Sean Hannity reported that Trump told him he “really wanted to finish the hole,” as he was playing golf at the time shots were fired at the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, who is now in custody.
“When the president found out everybody was safe, and nobody had been harmed … he related to me, ‘Ugh, I really wanted to finish the hole. I was even, and I had a birdie putt, and it was … on the fifth,’” Hannity said. “It was on the fifth hole, which shows a lot of, I think, guts and gumption and very Trumpian, I guess, in every way.”
Trump was not shot at, but law enforcement recovered an AK-47 with a scope, two backpacks, and a camera at the scene. President Joe Biden said he was thankful Trump was safe after the incident.
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“One thing I want to make clear is that the service needs more help, and I think Congress should respond to their needs,” Biden said Monday.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Trump campaign for comment about this week’s schedule.
