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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Former President Trump is back on the campaign trail Wednesday – with a stop in the crucial swing state of North Carolina.But the Republican presidential nominee – in his first rally since President Biden’s blockbuster announcement Sunday that he was suspending his re-election bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer – is facing a dramatically altered 2024 race.The president’s immediate backing of Harris ignited a surge of endorsements by Democratic governors, senators, House members and other party leaders in supporting Harris and by Monday night the vice president announced that she’d locked up her party’s nomination by landing commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention.IT’S A MARGIN OF ERROR RACE BETWEEN TRUMP AND HARRIS But Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley says even though Trump’s now facing a new opponent at the top of the Democrats’ ticket, the GOP’s strategy “does not change…at all.””We have been running our race, and we are going to continue to run our race,” Whatley, a former North Carolina GOP chair whom Trump installed as RNC chair in March after clinching the Republican nomination, emphasized in a Fox News interview.WHAT’S NEXT FOR HARRIS NOW THAT SHE’S SEEMINGLY LOCKED UP THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION?Whatley, speaking at the rally site at Charlotte’s Bojangles Coliseum, spotlighted that Trump and the RNC will relentlessly tie Harris to Biden’s polices on border security, fighting inflation, crime, and other top issues in the 2024 election.”The Democrats not only have a messenger problem, they have a message problem. And Kamala Harris is doubling down on every single one of Joe Biden’s failed policies. It’s the Biden-Harris administration, the Biden-Harris campaign. And she is picking up that mantle,” he argued.The RNC chair emphasized that Trump “has absolutely united the Republican Party in a way we haven’t had in generations. Now it’s time to unite the country around that vision of making America great again.”Trump narrowly won North Carolina in his 2020 election defeat to Biden, and Democrats see an opportunity to flip the state this November.The trip by Trump to North Carolina – which he narrowly carried in his 2020 re-election defeat to Biden -is the second in two months. The last time Trump was in North Carolina, he was watching NASCAR in Concord over Memorial Day weekend. The state is one of seven crucial battlegrounds that decided the 2020 contest and is likely to once again heavily influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.”We continue to focus on the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, where the Vice President’s advantages with young voters, Black voters, and Latino voters will be important to our multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes,” a memo from the Harris campaign spotlighted hours before Trump arrived in North Carolina.Whatley said Trump, in his speech in North Carolina, needs to “continue his conversation with every American family, talking to every single American voter about his vision for a better America. He is going to be the one who is going to restore our southern border, restore our economy, restore our standing in the world, and really be the one around that vision.”But expect Trump to also take aim at Harris, as he’s amped up his verbal attacks on the vice president since Sunday in posts on this Truth Social platform.Among other things, the former president called her “Dumb as a Rock” and “a totally failed and insignificant Vice President.”Harris is also turning up the volume. In a tease of her argument against Trump, Harris is pointing to her law enforcement resume as she spotlights Trump’s legal controversies.”As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general of California. Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris said on Monday in a line she repeated the next day.”Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” she emphasized as she pointed to Trump’s multiple lawsuits and criminal cases, many of which are ongoing.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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Conservatives on social media are praising a blistering ad launched by Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick linking his opponent, Sen. Bob Casey, to the policies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.”Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable, the more people get to know her they’re going to be particularly impressed by her ability,” a clip of Casey says at the start of the ad released by McCormick on Tuesday.The ad then goes into a variety of clips of Harris promoting progressive policies and labeling her the “most liberal nominee ever.”In the ad, Kamala is quoted calling for the elimination of the filibuster, banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal immigration, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, mandating a gun buyback program, and other liberal policies.GOP SENATE CANDIDATE TIES OPPONENT TO BIDEN DEBATE: BOB CASEY KNEWThe ad, which was viewed over 1.5 million times in 24 hours, was quickly praised by conservatives on social media. “Most comprehensive anti-Harris ad I’ve seen so far,” journalist Mairead Elordi posted on X.”Wow,” American Enterprise Institute fellow and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen posted on X.”Attention Republicans,” conservative commentator and author Matt Walsh posted on X. “This is how you attack Kamala Harris. Here’s the blueprint.”LETTER FROM SEN. BOB CASEY RESURFACES ON BIOLOGICAL MALES’ PARTICIPATION IN FEMALE SPORTS”The most radical presidential candidate in American history – just listen to her,” GOP Sen. Bill Hagerty posted on X. “America would never be the same if even half of these policies were carried out.””One of the most brutal and effective ads I’ve seen in a while,” Trump delegate Christian Ziegler posted on X. “Just play this every moment from now until November on TV. Good work by whomever cut this one.””This messaging is perfect,” Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe posted on X.”Congrats to Dave McCormick’s team… this is brilliant,” 1776 Project PAC Founder Ryan James Girdusky posted on X. “Now get it streaming online and on tv.”In a statement to Fox News Digital, Bob Casey for Senate spokesperson Maddy McDaniel said, “David McCormick is desperately trying to avoid answering for his support for a dangerous abortion ban and his record of investing millions in China’s largest fentanyl producer while fentanyl trafficked from China kills thousands of Pennsylvanians.”Casey’s seat is widely regarded as one of the best chances Republicans have to take back control of the U.S. Senate in November. The Cook Political report ranks the race as “Lean D.”



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Last month, Jake Paul said that former President Trump will most likely get his vote, and understandably so. He was rather emotional about the assassination attempt on the former president.A gunman opened fire on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 during a rally, and a bullet clipped his right ear. Paul thinks it was by the grace of God that it was not worse.”It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen and probably will ever see. I think there would have been a civil war if something would have hit him. But I think that’s like the divine intervention, for sure. I believe that God stepped in and saved him,” Paul said on his brother Logan’s podcast, “Impaulsive,” which Trump himself appeared on earlier this year.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”We saw the action of God right in front of our eyes,” Logan responded.”It’s quite literally ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ And I think that’s also probably why God had this exact situation happen – because He saw the path that we were going down with,” the YouTuber-turned-boxer added. KEITH OLBERMANN CALLS FOR MLB TO ‘CONFISCATE’ CARDINALS FRANCHISE AS HE ACCUSES THEM OF TRUMP CELEBRATION”And I’m not even gonna say, like, it’s Democrat-Republican, what does it matter? It’s the people who are running the government now, the path that they were leading us to was gonna be catastrophic and terrible. And I think God really intervened, like, ‘we need this guy right now. Everyone needs to flip sides. We can’t have a close election – we need a landslide. We need this guy to come back in and make America great again.'”Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” last month, Paul discussed his biggest issues with the current state of the country.”I know people are struggling with jobs, mortgages are too much for people to afford, inflation, prices are going up, is minimum wage rising,” Paul said. “People are having trouble paying off and going to school, and then they’re feeling like, “Hey, I have this college degree, but what has this gotten me?'”Trump officially accepted the GOP nomination for this year’s election. He will now, more than likely, face Vice President Kamala Harris in the race as President Biden announced on Sunday he will not seek re-election.Paul recently earned his 10th professional victory over the weekend, defeating Mike Perry by a sixth-round TKO. He is now set to face Mike Tyson, his original opponent from this past weekend, on Nov. 15 in Dallas.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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New video footage shot by a rally goer shows the assassination attempt on former President Trump before a sniper took out the shooter after he opened fire.Jon Malice shot the footage as he and his family watched the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, next to the American Glass Research (AGR) building, which Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to scale to a clear line of sight to Trump, who suffered injuries to his ear from the shooting. One spectator was killed and several others were injured in the incident.Crooks, 20, appeared to fire eight shots before he was killed by sniper fire.”I noticed about two minutes before the shooting started, the people were starting to say, ‘hey, he’s climbing up here, he’s crawling around, he’s doing this, he’s doing that,” Malice told Fox News. “We just kind of ignored it because we thought it was some person trying to get a better view.”ROOFTOP BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS CONFUSION AMONG OFFICIALS, RIFLE SHOOTER USED IN DEADLY ATTEMPT ON TRUMP”I want to say three, then maybe five [rounds were heard],” he added. “And then I heard the two counter sniper rounds.”Fox News was told by a source that one shot came from a local sniper, while the other came from a Secret Service sniper, which was ultimately the kill shot.Malice, a military veteran, said he was surprised by the lack of security around the event site. “One of the first things I noticed when we walked up, none of us have been vetted,” he said. “We’re all along the fence. We all have view of the stage. We can see Trump.”Malice also said all the witnesses near the AGR building did not have to go through metal detectors because they were outside the rally site, despite having a clear and close view of Trump.One video Malice captured was taken by a dash camera.”We were just looking for parking because everything was blocked off,” Malice said when asked to explain what he saw when the video was taken. “But this particular road here, I noticed a lot of cars were parking there. So we just kept driving around and we thought it was safe. And, as I was going back to my videos later, I noticed somebody who looked like crooks crossing the street and zoomed in on it.”SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR CHEATLE RESIGNS AFTER MOUNTING PRESSURE IN WAKE OF TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT”Turned out it really was him,” he said. “So it’s a video of him, we think leaving his vehicle. There was a gray Hyundai, looked like a Sonata, that was parked there … He wasn’t carrying anything. He was just in his, you know, just his regular clothes. No backpack or anything. Just walking to the building. And then about two minutes after that, somebody else shot a video of him on that side of the building, through the fence.”Malice said one video he has shows Crooks pointing his rifle at him.”Right before he was shot by Secret Service, he had rolled over, got up,” he said. “I have a picture of him with his rifle up and his rifle turned towards me and the other guys that were standing behind the tree, and at that second Secret Service shot him.”He also said he was surprised that Secret Service was not on the roof Crooks was stationed on.



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Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that in lieu of co-presiding over the speech to a joint meeting of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she will attend a previously scheduled event in Indiana, the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule in Indianapolis.Since it is a “joint” meeting of the House and Senate, the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, who is the Vice President, usually preside. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said today that it may be “unprecedented” not to have the Vice President preside. However, there have been multiple instances over the years in which the President Pro Tempore has presided.KAMALA HARRIS TO SKIP NETANYAHU’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, WHILE TOP DEM SENATOR BOYCOTTS ALTOGETHER One such instance came during Netanyahu’s 2015 speech to a joint meeting of Congress – the last time Netanyahu spoke to Congress.Then-Vice President Biden did not co-preside with then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Instead, then-President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) presided. In 2011, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard spoke to a joint meeting of Congress. However, then-Vice President Biden did not preside over that meeting, either. It was Boehner and then-President Pro Tempore Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS INVADE CAPITOL HILL BUILDING ON EVE OF NETANYAHU ADDRESSThere have been other instances as well. However, it is extremely rare to have someone like Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the acting chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preside over a joint meeting of Congress. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is the president pro tempore of the Senate now. She will also not co-preside with Johnson during the joint meeting.The controversy unfolds amid a chaotic scene on Capitol Hill, as massive swarms of pro-Palestinian protesters are occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building right now. Police have made some arrests. There’s an elevated threat environment, especially following the shooting of former President Trump. Right now, massive fences are encircling the Capitol. These are the same types of fences which police put up after the Capitol riots. The campus will be locked down for much of tomorrow. Many Democrats will not be attending the Netanyahu speech, in protest of the Israeli leader’s prosecution of the war in the Gaza Strip.When acting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin co-presides over the joint meeting of Congress, he will not be the first non-VP or non-President Pro Tempore to do so.In fact, late Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.) was the last non-VP or Senate President Pro Tempore to preside over such a meeting, which occurred when South Korean President Roh Tae-woo spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on October 18, 1989. He shared the responsibility with late House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.).Fox News’ David Unsworth contributed to this report.



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