Vance blames Democratic rhetoric for assassination attempts against Trump

Nobody has tried to kill Kamala Harris since she joined the race for the White House, the Republican vice presidential candidate has said

The attempts on Donald Trump’s life are a result of the aggressive rhetoric coming from the supporters of the Democratic Party, Republican vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, has said.

On Sunday, the Secret Service spooked a gunman, who was hiding in bushes at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect fled the scene in a car, but was detained shortly afterwards. In mid-July, the Republican presidential candidate had his ear grazed by a bullet fragment after several shots were fired at his campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. One of the people in the crowd was killed and several others wounded in the incident, with the gunman being shot dead by the Secret Service.

During his speech at the Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner in Atlanta on Tuesday, Vance suggested that “the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that… no one has tried to kill [Democratic presidential candidate] Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months.”

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The attempts to assassinate Trump are “pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric, and needs to cut this crap out,” he insisted.

If the tensions keep mounting, “somebody is going to get hurt by it, and it is going to destroy this country… and you think about what an incredible wound it would open up in the US,” the VP candidate warned.

"I promise I will do my part to tone down the rhetoric. But in particular, the people telling you that Donald Trump needs to be eliminated. You guys need to cut it out, or you are going get somebody hurt,” Vance urged.

Trump made a similar comment during his interview on X Spaces on Monday. “There’s a lot of rhetoric going on right now… the Democrats, when they talk about ‘threat to democracy’ and all of this,” the Republican presidential candidate stressed. Speaking about the two suspects in attempted attacks on him, the 78-year-old noted that “it seems that both of these people were radical lefts.”

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US President Joe Biden, who had been replaced by Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate in July, said on Monday that he wanted the Congress to provide “more help” to the Secrets Service in view of recent events. Trump previously confirmed that he talked on the phone with Biden and Harris following the Sunday’s assassination attempt and that both of them were “nice” to him.