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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.”

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Speaker Mike Johnson is demanding accountability from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after the Pennsylvania Trump rally shooting. (Getty Images)

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. 

He’s now commissioning a bipartisan task force, armed with subpoena power, to investigate the security failings that led to a 20-year-old gunman being able to fire shots off a roof just outside of the rally perimeter despite being seen beforehand by local law enforcement and civilians.

“Her excuses for this just make no sense,” Johnson said. “I think accountability begins at the top. And I think everybody in this business understands that it’s very important, and it’s critically important for us to get the answers and accountability quickly so that people don’t make up their minds about some conspiracy theory or some sinister plot.”

SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR AGREES TO TESTIFY AT HOUSE HEARING ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Donald Trump, with blood on his face, is surrounded by Secret Service agents after being shot at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

He warned that “some of those rumors have begun already, and we have to address that immediately.”

House lawmakers held a call with Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday to address their concerns about the incident. A source familiar with the call told Fox News Digital at the time that it lasted roughly 45 minutes and offered limited insight.

Johnson similarly said on Thursday that he learned “very little” on the call.

“That’s the problem,” Johnson said. “They’re not providing answers quickly enough and the answers they do provide are not satisfactory.”

The speaker questioned President Biden’s decision to appoint Cheatle in the first place, arguing her focus on diversity efforts within the Secret Service took away from more critical efforts.

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Trump was shot in the ear during the rally. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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“She doesn’t seem to be the most qualified person, and she doesn’t seem to have a great grasp of what her primary responsibility is,” he said. “We’ve all seen and heard the accounts of her suggesting that, you know, that the number one priority was having more diversity in the Secret Service and more female officers, etc. That is not the number one priority. The number one priority is the safety of the persons that they are supposed to be protecting.”

The speaker’s office told Fox News Digital that he is aiming to schedule a classified briefing on the shooting next week.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Secret Service for comment.

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 [nomination of the] delegates in Chicago and continuing with this race to talk about what’s at stake.”

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President Biden waves as he walks down the steps of Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Biden is returning to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, to self-isolate after testing positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Following his disastrous debate performance last month in his face-to-face showdown with former President 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.

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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 fall election.

President Biden speaks at a campaign office in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Reports over the past 24 hours indicated that top Democrats – including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – have had frank conversations with Biden about the president ending his campaign.

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 want 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.”

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Calls for additional border security and mass deportation of illegal immigrants were again on display at the Republican National Convention’s third night, as the ongoing crisis at the border remains a top political issue.

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.

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People hold signs that read, “Mass Deportation Now!” on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party’s presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18.   (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Former President Trump had campaigned heavily on restricting illegal immigration and building a wall along the southern border in 2016, and his supporters say the strategy worked. 

President Biden took office, reversing many of Trump’s policies, and has since been hit by a historic crisis at the southern border that has smashed records. The Biden administration has said it has been trying to solve what it says is a hemisphere-wide crisis, but needs funding and immigration reform from Congress, something it blames Republicans for blocking.

But Republicans say the crisis is the result of Biden-era policies and specifically the reversal of Trump-era policies like border wall construction and increased interior enforcement. 

“Biden is the first president in American history to come into office and unsecure the border. Who the hell does that?” Homan said.

Unaccompanied minors walk towards U.S. Border Patrol vehicles after crossing over from Mexico on May 9, 2023, in El Paso, Texas. A surge of immigrants is expected with the end of the U.S. government’s COVID-era Title 42 policy, which for the past three years has allowed for the quick expulsion of irregular migrants entering the country.  (John Moore/Getty Images)

Now, with the crisis at the border a top issue, Republicans are promising to fix it if Trump is re-elected. Trump has promised the largest deportation campaign in American history.

“America needs a president who will secure our border. America needs Donald J. Trump,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has fought repeatedly with the Biden administration on the crisis.

“Under President Trump we had the lowest illegal border crossings in about four decades. By contrast, however, Joe Biden deserted his duty on his first day in office, he gutted President Trump’s policies and the result has been catastrophic,” he said.

On Tuesday, day two of the convention had focused on border security, with the theme of “Make America Secure Again.” Speakers had included the family of Rachel Morin, who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant last year.

“Joe Biden and his designated border czar Kamala Harris opened our borders to him and others like him, empowering them to victimize the innocent,” Rachel’s brother, Michael, said.

On Wednesday, speakers included Arizona ranchers Sue and Jim Chilton.

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Thomas Homan, former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

“On the screen you’ll see footage from our ranch. Since Joe Biden took office our hidden cameras have recorded over 3,500 drug packers and others dressed in camouflage marching north through our ranch,” Jim Chilton said.

“These are not asylum seekers. It looks like, feels like an invasion, because it is,” he said.

“Every time Jim leaves the ranch house, I have to worry that he won’t come back alive,” Sue said. “Our house has been broken into twice. A Border Patrol agent was shot by drug smugglers on our ranch.”

The Biden administration has been pushing back against the narrative set by the Republican Party, accusing Republicans of blocking solutions. Meanwhile, the administration has said that its actions are working.

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 The White House said this week that since an executive order by President Biden was announced in June to limit entries into the U.S., encounters overall have decreased by more than 50%, and the number of releases has decreased by 70%. Officials also say the administration has removed and returned more than 50,000 individuals to more than 100 countries.

“While the president’s action has led to significant results, it is clear that the only lasting solution to the challenges we are seeing on our border – the solution that would deliver additional authorities, resources, and personnel that we need to secure our border – is through congressional action,” an official said.

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.

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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at a press conference on June 4 in Chicago. (Getty Images)

Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., penned the letter to Cheatle, writing that, “there have been no meaningful updates or information shared with the Committee.”

“The lack of transparency and failure to cooperate with the Committee on this pressing matter by both DHS and the Secret Service further calls into question your ability to lead the Secret Service and necessitates the attached subpoena compelling your appearance before the Oversight Committee,” a letter attached to the subpoena read.

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After initially requesting Cheatle’s voluntary presence at the hearing, an Oversight Committee spokesperson told Fox News’ Chad Pergram that a subpoena would “head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack from her appearance on Monday.”

Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci snapped this photo of former President Trump in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, an incident that took the life of one rally attendee and injured several others.

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Members of Congress immediately called for an investigation into the incident, and a full committee hearing is scheduled for Monday, July 22.

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. He is competing in one of the most highly anticipated Senate elections in the nation.

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Businessman and politician Dave McCormick speaks during Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.  (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Democrats have increasingly called on Biden to drop out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance last month, which included the president tripping over his words, losing his train of thought at times and delivering responses with a raspy voice. California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was the latest member of his party on Wednesday to call on Biden to bow out. 

“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. “And in doing so, secure his legacy of leadership by allowing us to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming election.”

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McCormick is running to serve Biden’s childhood home state as a senator, working to defeat Casey, who has held onto his seat since 2007. At the federal level, Pennsylvania is also a key battleground state this election cycle, which narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, and elected Biden in 2020 by a 1.17% margin. 

McCormick took the RNC’s stage on Tuesday evening, where he said the election is a “choice between America’s greatness or its sad, disgraceful decline,” while taking a jab at his competition. 

Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and President Joe Biden.  (Getty Images)

“My opponent’s name is Bob Casey, but you probably don’t know him, ’cause he does nothing,” McCormick said. “For 18 years, Bob Casey has been warming a chair and drawing a paycheck. He is a do-nothing, out-of-touch, liberal, career politician.”

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“It feels like a privilege to be here, to be the nominee, to be able to do this. The energy in the room is electric. You can feel it. I think you can feel a sense of unity. I think Saturday’s shooting was even further unifying of our party. It was also sobering. We realized we were an inch away from losing the president, and what a catastrophic thing that would have been for the country. So I’m excited to be here, and I think we’ve got a clear vision for the future,” he said. 

McCormick underscored that the RNC and Trump’s messaging has been one of unity, especially following the assassination attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pa., on Saturday evening during a rally. Trump was hit in the ear during the attack, while two other attendees were injured, and another man, 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, was shot and killed protecting his wife and family. 

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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance applaud on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.  (REUTERS/Callaghan O’hare)

McCormick said that Trump’s selection of Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate will further the message of unity and will also likely help down ballot Senate races across the nation, most notably for McCormick in Pennsylvania. 

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“I’m excited about it. He’s a veteran, that’s a big deal in Pennsylvania – we have a huge, huge veterans community. He understands Appalachia. He understands the plight of working families, which is a huge deal in Western Pennsylvania, where I live. He understands the importance of natural gas, and the energy industry is a huge part of Pennsylvania’s future,” McCormick said, calling Vance a “young, energetic leader.”

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.”

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Biden speaks at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP Photo/David Becker)

“Kamala isn’t the strongest overall but logistically it’d be the cleanest,” Stonewall Democratic Club vice president Nico Brancolini reportedly told her group. “But imagine the fury if a sitting vice president who is a black woman were passed over for any of the other candidates.”

The delegates are not the only ones becoming more aggressive in seeking Biden’s resignation from the 2024 presidential race.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly talked to Biden over the phone and presented polling that suggested the president’s re-election campaign was tanking Democrats’ chances on the ticket, according to multiple reports.

“The speaker does not want to call on him to resign, but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens,” one source familiar with the call told the outlet.

PELOSI SNAPS AT REPORTER ASKING IF SHE WANTS BIDEN TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE: ‘AM I SPEAKING ENGLISH TO YOU?’

Pelosi, a former Speaker of the House, is urging Biden to reconsider his plans to seek re-election, warning him that his unpopularity could hurt Democrats down-ticket nationwide, according to reports. (Getty Images)

Biden reportedly became defensive against the former speaker’s accusations, suggesting that he has seen polls in which he’s ahead.

“President Biden is the nominee of the party. He plans to win and looks forward to working with congressional Democrats to pass his 100 days agenda to help working families,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told CNN when asked about the alleged phone call.

Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally, is now “convinced” Biden remaining on the ticket would cost her party the White House, according to a stunning Politico report published on Monday.

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Biden kisses Pelosi during an Affordable Care Act event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Last week, a number of House Democrats told The Hill that Pelosi was advising members in their conference against rallying to Biden before there is a broader discussion over whether he is the best candidate to defeat Trump. 

Biden reportedly lashed out at fellow Democrats on a group call Saturday, insisting that questions about his viability for a second term were ridiculous.

Internal debate over plans to re-nominate Biden as the 2024 presidential nominee is threatening to rupture the Democratic Party.

Democratic leaders are considering plans to nominate Biden as soon as next week, ostensibly due to concerns that the Aug. 17 date for the Democratic National Convention comes after Ohio’s ballot deadline.

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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.

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Sergeant William Pekrul, an everyday American and World War II veteran, gestures on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

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. 

The veteran recounted some of the horrors of WWII and said he would never forget the horrors he saw when battling the Nazis.

“I will never forget and witness the horror of the Nazi war camps and the Battle of the Bulge,” Pekrul recalled. “My friends and I fought to stop the Nazis, the last major push in the Western Front.”

“We worked, and we gave thanks to Almighty God for deliverance from evil,” he continued. “But not many of us came home. I still miss a lot of my friends on that beach.”

Pekrul earned two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star for his WWII service. Locally recognized, he was Grand Marshal of Milwaukee’s Veterans Day Parade in 2019.

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Sergeant William Pekrul, an everyday American and World War II veteran, gestures on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024.  (Reuters/Mike Segar)

During his RNC speech, Pekrul threw in his strong support for Trump, saying that with “President Trump back as commander in chief, I would go back to re-enlist today.”

“And I would storm whatever beach my country needs me to,” Pekrul concluded. “God bless you, God bless our home and the United States of America.”

The tone of night three of the RNC subtly shifted to one of somberness, as family members of the 13 U.S. service members who lost their lives during the final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan spoke about their loved ones.

Most of the audience remained standing on their feet as the Gold Star families made their remarks.

At the end of their statements, the names of each service member who died were read to the audience, with those in attendance shouting the names back in return.

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Attendees carry American flags on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024.  (Reuters/Jeenah Moon)

Other notable speakers who packed a punch and added to the unifying energy behind Trump – who will speak on Thursday night and formally accept the Republican Party’s nomination for president – included Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. and granddaughter, Kai Trump, VP nominee J.D. Vance, among others.

A group of University of North Carolina (UNC) fraternity brothers who protected an American flag from anti-Israel agitators during a campus demonstration earlier this year also received a warm welcome as they each held their own flags.

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Thursday night at the RNC will continue with the theme “Make America Great Once Again.”

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Fox News Digital’s Michael Lee contributed to this report.

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.”

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Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Vance also pointed to Biden’s decades-long career in politics, saying that when he “was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle-class manufacturing jobs.”

“When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq,” he added. “And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan and states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war.”

Vance also touched on housing and the economy during his remarks, declaring that “Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, my friends, is really an affordability crisis.”

“Many of the people that I grew up with can’t afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent. And that’s exactly what Joe Biden’s economy has given them,” he said.

Vance, arguably as vice presidential nominee the MAGA movement’s heir apparent, made his comments in his address to the roughly 2,400 delegates and thousands of other attendees packed inside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Arena, and the millions of Americans watching the GOP convention from home.

“Let me tell you about the future. President Trump’s vision is so simple and yet so powerful. We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street. We’ll commit to the working man,” he said.

“We’re done importing foreign labor. We’re going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages,” he continued. “We’re done buying energy from countries that hate us. We’re going to get it right here from American workers in Pennsylvania, in Ohio and across the country.”

The convention kicked off just two days after the former president survived an assassination attempt at a Trump rally in western Pennsylvania where one spectator and the shooter were killed.

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“I want all Americans to go and watch the video of a would-be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life. Consider the lies they told you about Donald Trump, and then look at that photo of him, defiant, fist in the air. When Donald Trump rose to his feet in that Pennsylvania field, all of America stood with him,” Vance said Wednesday.

“What did he call us to do for our country? To fight. To fight for America, even in his most perilous moment, we were on his mind,” he added. “His instinct was for us, for our country, to call us to something higher, to something greater, to once again be citizens who ask what our country needs of us.”

Vance, a former venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” before running for elective office, said at a financial event house before his prime time address at the convention that “we’re gonna get out there and try to fire up the crowd tonight.”

And from the reactions of the audience of party faithful and MAGA minions inside the arena, Vance succeeded.

Vance gave a moving tribute to his mother, Beverly Aikins, during his remarks Wednesday night.

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“It’s about single moms like mine, who struggle with money and addiction but never gave up,” Vance said as his mother sat watching in former Trump’s Friends and Family box for the speech. “I am proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober. I love you, mom.”

Vance stepped aside and acknowledged his mother while the crowd belted out a chant of “JD’s Mom! JD’s Mom!”

Trump, in making his greatly anticipated and high-stakes running mate announcement as the GOP convention kicked off in Midwestern swing-state Wisconsin’s largest city, will now share the ticket with one of his top supporters in the Senate and a one-time Trump critic who has transformed into a leading America First ally and MAGA champion.

The former president and Vance teamed up on Monday and Tuesday nights in the family box above the floor of the GOP convention.

Vance’s story began with Vance growing up in a working-class family in a small city in southwestern Ohio. His parents divorced when he was young, and as his mother struggled for years with drug and alcohol abuse, Vance was raised in part by his maternal grandparents.

U.S. Sen. JD Vance and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance look on as he is nominated for the office of Vice President on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

After high school graduation, Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a deployment to Iraq. He later graduated from The Ohio State University and then earned a law degree at Yale University.

Vance, who lives in Cincinnati, moved to San Francisco after law school and worked as a principal in a venture capital firm owned by billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who later became a major financial supporter of Vance’s successful 2022 campaign for the Senate.

Before running for Senate, Vance grabbed national attention after his book “Hillbilly Elegy” – which tells his story of growing up in a struggling steel mill city and his roots in Appalachian Kentucky – became a New York Times bestseller and was later made into a Netflix film. The story spotlighted the everyday struggles and values of many working-class Americans who became supporters of Trump’s policies.

Vance was a vocal critic of Trump when the former president first ran for the White House in the 2016 cycle. 

However, Vance eventually supported Trump, praising the former president’s tenure in the White House, and in a Fox News interview in 2021, he apologized for his earlier criticism of Trump.

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Trump’s endorsement of Vance days before the 2022 GOP Senate primary boosted him to victory in a crowded, competitive and combustible race.

“I think the American people are going to love to hear JD’s story of overcoming adversity as a young man, becoming a Marine and serving his country in uniform in Iraq, and going on to becoming a business leader, and now a successful elected leader as well,” fellow veteran and fellow Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas told Fox News on Tuesday.

Former President Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Democrats, in a taste of things to come, wasted no time in criticizing Vance on Monday.

Vance was “a clone of Trump on the issues,” President Biden told reporters. Vice President Kamala Harris, in a campaign video released on Wednesday, charged that “Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”

And hours before Vance’s speech, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a top Biden campaign surrogate, called Trump’s running mate “the perfect Frankenstein monster.”

Fox News’ Alexis McAdams contributed to this report

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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.”

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends the second day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

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.

“Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement,” he said at the time.

Trump talked about crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants as he pushed for a more secure border, starting a trend that has continued, with Republicans emphasizing heinous crimes allegedly committed by suspects who entered the country illegally.

“One such border-crosser was released and made his way to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. She was 21 years old and was killed the day after graduating from college with a 4.0 grade point average, No. 1 in her class,” he told listeners. 

“Her killer was then released a second time, and he is now a fugitive from the law. I’ve met Sarah’s beautiful family. But to this administration, their amazing daughter was just one more American life that wasn’t worth protecting, one more child to sacrifice on the altar of open borders.”

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Hundreds of migrants, predominantly from Venezuela, cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Dec. 5, 2023. (David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s 2016 remarks would preview what much of his presidency would go on to look like, with a strong emphasis on illegal immigration.

In 2020, after Trump had served in the role of commander in chief for several years, his remarks began to focus on a different subject. By this point, the country was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a vaccination had yet to be made available. Due to the pandemic, many speeches were even delivered remotely.

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Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus disease vaccine labels are seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File)

“In recent months, our nation and the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. Like those brave Americans before us, we are meeting this challenge,” then-President Trump said. “We are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus, end the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before.”

He spent time during the remarks reflecting on accomplishments over the previous few years. Trump named a few, explaining how after he took office he immediately “withdrew from the last administration’s job-killing Trans Pacific Partnership. I then approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, ended the unfair and costly Paris Climate Accord, and secured, for the first time, American energy independence. We passed record-setting tax and regulation cuts, at a rate nobody had ever seen before.”

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“Within three short years, we built the strongest economy in the history of the world,” Trump said. 

Laced throughout his 2020 remarks were warnings to voters, that all of the progress Trump had made toward his goals as president could be undone if he didn’t win again on Election Day. 

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Trump’s 2024 remarks will likely touch on some of these same subjects. However, the former president has revealed that his speech will do one thing in particular: unify. After the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally on Saturday in Butler, Pa., that left him bloodied with a wound on his right ear, the former president said he ripped up his planned convention speech. 

“This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago,” he said in an interview after the shooting.

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MILWAUKEE – 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.

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Former President Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump, in an interview Sunday with the Washington Examiner, said “honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”

“It is a chance to bring the country together. I was given that chance,” he emphasized.

And in an email to supporters on the eve of his address, Trump said “I will lay out my vision to UNITE OUR COUNTRY AND MAKE IT GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

The push for party unity was on display during the first three days of the convention, with former GOP presidential rivals Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – who battled Trump in a contentious primary season – delivered speeches from the podium in support of the former president.

Republicans are using the convention as a venue to reunite the party and energize delegates and activists ahead of the final stretch of the campaign in Trump’s 2024 election rematch with President Biden.

“This is obviously an opportunity to bring the country together,” Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita said earlier this week. “But let’s not forget we’re in the middle of a campaign, and we have to win that campaign.”

Former President Donald Trump arrives to the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.  (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump is also expected to hit a major theme of his 2024 campaign – strength – and contrast it with what he argues is Biden’s weakness.

Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller, in an interview on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” spotlighted the “strength and resilience from President Trump, especially only a few days after the assassination attempt.”

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Miller also noted that the “tone” and “approach” of the former president’s speech “is going to be notably different.” 

“President Trump has spent much of the last several days dictating what he wants that speech to look like in real terms, saying ‘I want to say this and I want to go into the following,’” Miller noted.

The Biden campaign isn’t buying the Republicans’ unity message.

Biden principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told reporters this week that Trump and Republicans “will always choose big, greedy, anti-union extremists over the working men and women of America.”

Trump’s address to the roughly 2,400 delegates and thousands of other attendees packed inside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Arena, and the millions of Americans watching the GOP convention, also comes less than two months since he was convicted of 34 felony counts in the first criminal trial of a former or current president in the nation’s history.

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump applauds as Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance gestures on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024.  (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

But weeks later, Biden severely stumbled with a disastrous debate performance against Trump, which has led to a rising chorus of calls from within the Democratic Party for the president to end his 2024 re-election bid and bow out of the race.

And now, in the wake of this past weekend’s assassination attempt, the presidential rematch has been further altered.

On the eve of the convention’s final day, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, acknowledged that “as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been much different. Instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and mourning.”

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MILWAUKEE — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s “America First” foreign policy positions are taking the spotlight as he prepares to deliver his first major prime time speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.

Vance was announced as former President Trump’s running mate on Monday, and since, numerous politicians and media outlets, especially foreign ones, have begun sounding the alarm over what they describe as his “isolationist” policies, warning a Trump-Vance presidency might go so far as to abandon Ukraine amid its war with Russia.

“Trump’s choice of running mate raises fears in Ukraine and EU,” one BBC headline read, with the piece going on to cite a German politician saying Vance is “more isolationist” and “unpredictable” than Trump.

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Sen. JD Vance is shown on the first day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Washington Post wrote that Trump picked “a like-minded isolationist on foreign policy,” and Politico wrote that Vance “spells ‘disaster’ for Europe and Ukraine.”

CNN’s Van Jones described Vance as “a horror on the world stage,” warning “Ukrainians are now in deep trouble.”

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When Vance talks about his “America First” foreign policy beliefs, the focus often involves Ukraine as well as Israel and China.

Sen. JD Vance and wife Usha Chilukuri Vance are shown as he is nominated for vice president on the first day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

He has been a vocal critic of the various foreign aid packages, which included assistance for Ukraine: “The problem in Ukraine … is that there’s no clear end point,” he remarked on one occasion.

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“The United States has sent tens of billions worth of military aid to Ukraine with shockingly little accountability for where those resources have gone,” he said in another instance.

Vance has largely made support for Israel amid its war with Hamas an exception to his opposition to foreign aid, and he has argued against “micromanaging” their military operations. He’s also called for rooting out Hamas as a military organization and that the world should “empower” Israel to do it.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Vance’s opposition to foreign aid is driven largely by his view that it’s a distraction from China, which he describes as the “biggest threat” currently facing the U.S.

The first-term Ohio senator’s speech is expected to fall fully in line with the night’s “Make America Strong Once Again” theme, and it will, according to one source in his political orbit, be focused “heavily on his bio and incredible life story and how that ties into the America First agenda.”

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His speech will also “connect his life experiences to the Trump policies, folding in his firsthand experience of a tough upbringing that shaped his views on a lot of the biggest issues he is passionate about,” which include “trade, immigration, ending endless wars, fentanyl and drugs, and how inflation hurts the poor the most,” another source told Fox.

Fox News’ Julia Johnson contributed to this report.

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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.

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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries both agreed to push for the DNC to delay its roll call. (Getty Images)

“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.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital in a statement after publication that Biden “told both leaders he is the nominee of the party, he plans to win, and looks forward to working with both of them to pass his 100 days agenda to help working families.”

Schumer spoke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and both men agreed to urge the DNC to delay a virtual roll call planned for this month to officially nominate Biden, three sources told Fox News Digital.

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U.S. President Joe Biden pictured in front of the Capitol. (Getty Images)

It was revealed Wednesday that the DNC was delaying its nomination plans to August after significant pushback from party members toward an initial plan to nominate Biden later this month.

“We have confirmed with the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic National Convention that no virtual voting will begin before August 1,” wrote DNC Rules Committee co-chairs Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and veteran Democratic Party official Leah Daughtry in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., became the 20th congressional Democrat to call on Biden to step aside on Wednesday. “I believe it is time for him to pass the torch,” Schiff said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, right. (Getty Images)

His call came one day after a report claimed he told donors “I think if he is our nominee, I think we lose.”

President Biden has become more receptive to leaving the race, moving from arguing that Vice President Kamala Harris can’t win to asking advisers if the vice president can win, according to a report from CNN.

Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed Wednesday evening that Biden had contracted COVID-19. The COVID diagnosis follows remarks from a day earlier in which Biden said a medical condition could lead to him dropping out of the race.

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“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, the doctors came and said you’ve got this problem, that problem,” Biden told BET’s Ed Gordon . “But I made a serious mistake in the whole debate and, look, when I originally ran, you might remember it, I said I was gonna be a transitional candidate. I thought that I would be able to move from this, to pass it on to somebody else. But I didn’t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided.”

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Kai Trump, the eldest grandchild of former President Donald Trump, spoke on day three of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she shared the side of her grandpa that “people don’t often see.”

“To me, he’s just a normal grandpa. He gives us candy and soda when our parents aren’t looking, he always wants to know how we’re doing in school,” she said.

“When I made the high honor roll, he printed it out to show his friends how proud he was of me,” she added. “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.”

Kai, 17, also reflected on the attempted assassination of her grandfather last Saturday at a rally in Pennsylvania, saying she was “shocked” and found it to be “heartbreaking.”

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Kai Trump, former President Trump’s granddaughter, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“On Saturday, I was shocked when I heard that he had been shot, and I just wanted to know if he was okay. It was heartbreaking that someone would do that to another person,” she said.

Kai – who was welcomed to the stage by her father, Donald Trump Jr. – noted that “a lot of people have put my grandfather through hell,” but that “he’s still standing.”

“Grandpa, you are such an inspiration and I love you,” she said. “The media makes my grandpa seem like a different person, but I know him for who he is. He’s very caring and loving. He truly wants the best for this country, and he will fight every single day to make America great again.”

“Even when he’s going through all these court cases, he always asks me how I’m doing. He always encourages me to push myself to be the most successful person I can be. Obviously, he sets the bar pretty high, but who knows, maybe one day I’ll catch him,” she added.

Kai, the daughter of Don Jr. and Vanessa Trump, now divorced, was recently a regaled guest of Dana White’s at the UFC 303 fight, which she attended opposite her dad. The Florida teen posed for photographs with White, the president of the UFC, former NFL superstar Aaron Rodgers and country music star Jelly Roll, among other A-listers.

Kai, born May 12, 2007, is an enthusiastic golfer. She is active on social media and regularly posts about her golf skills.

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Donald Trump Jr. watches his daughter, Kai Trump, speak during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Kai also reflected during her speech on instances when she played golf with her grandfather, times when she had to remind him that she’s a “Trump, too.”

“When we play golf together, if I’m not his team, he’ll try to get inside of my head. And he’s always surprised that I don’t let him get to me. But I have to remind him I’m a Trump, too,” she said.

Last year, the Florida native started a YouTube channel. She kickstarted the outreach social media page with a video titled, “Get to know Kai Trump!”

“It should overall be a fun channel,” Kai said in the clip.

As Kai scampers around a golf course, her friend asks questions, and she gives viewers insight into some of her favorite things, which includes pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks, proscuitto meat and ricotta cheese, and playing pickleball and tennis.

In March, Kai won the ladies’ club championship at the private Trump Golf Club in West Palm Beach. She has posted photographs and clips in the past playing with golf professional and PGA player Bryson DeChambeau.

Former President Donald Trump, U.S. golfer Brooks Koepka, and Kai Trump play golf at Trump National Doral Miami golf club on October 27, 2022, in Miami, Florida. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mixed into her fitness reels, Kai reminds social media users that she is an undoubted supporter of her grandpa.

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Republican senators confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday over the attempted assassination of former President Trump on Saturday, 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.

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Former President Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday during Pennsylvania rally. (Trump Campaign Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“This was an assassination attempt, you owe the people answers, you owe President Trump answers,” Blackburn said.

In a separate longer video, the senators can be seen questioning Cheatle. In response to their questions, she says that it isn’t an appropriate place to have the discussion, but says she is happy to answer questions, before leaving the suite. It is at that point she is yelled at by the lawmakers.

It comes amid furious criticism of the agency by Republicans and some Democrats over the circumstances surrounding the attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. The shooter has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, and the FBI is investigating his specific motive.

Trump was shot in the ear, but one attendee was killed and two others injured. Lawmakers have questioned how the gunman was able to get so close and fire off multiple shots, as details have emerged of people seeing him climb up the building.

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This image shows Sens. Marsha Blackburn and John Barrasso confronting Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. (@VoteMarsha/X)

FBI Director Christopher Wray held member-wide briefings with both the House and Senate on Wednesday to discuss lawmakers’ questions and concerns. Barrasso told Fox News earlier that the meeting was a “100% cover-your-a—briefing.”

Cheatle has agreed to comply with a subpoena from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer. She has called the shooting “unacceptable” and “something that shouldn’t happen again.”

“The buck stops with me,” she told ABC News. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”

But she has come under criticism for comments she made talking about a “sloped roof” that caused a safety issue.

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

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Her answers have so far failed to satisfy many Republican lawmakers, including Barrasso and Blackburn.

“It is appalling that the Secret Service Director refused to answer our questions. This is one of the greatest security failures in the history of the agency. She can run but she cannot hide. She is a failed leader and she needs to immediately step down from her position,” Blackburn said in a statement.

Fox News’ Liz Elkind and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report.
 

Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro took the stage on day three of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was greeted by a roaring crowd of Republicans and declared Democrats will “never break” Trump.

Navarro, who walked on stage to chants of “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT,” was released from a Miami prison Wednesday — hours before he spoke at the convention.

“Yes, indeed. This morning, I did walk out of a federal prison in Miami. Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there. Tonight, I’m here with you in this beautiful city of Milwaukee. I got a very simple message for you: If they can come for me, if they can come for Donald Trump, be careful. They will come for you,” he told the crowd.

Navarro, 75, was convicted after being found in contempt of Congress and was sentenced to four months in a federal prison in Miami in March.

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Former director of the US Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

During his speech at the convention, Navarro urged support for Trump and warned that if he doesn’t take back the White House this fall, then “their government” will “control us.”

“If we don’t control our government, their government will control us. If we don’t control all three branches of our government — legislative, executive and judicial — their government will put some of us, like me and Steve Bannon, in prison,” he said.

Reflecting on the differences between the presidencies of Trump and President Biden, Navarro said it’s now the “tale of two Americas” for voters who will take part in this November’s election.

“This is a tale of two Americas, and you know it wasn’t this way when Donald Trump was president. I remember the days. I was there. In Trump’s America, you were safe, and our borders were secure. In Trump’s America, you were more prosperous, and you didn’t have to choose between… food on the table, medicine in the cabinet and a roof over your head. And in Trump’s America, you didn’t have to worry about being locked up for disagreeing with the government,” Navarro told the Republicans.

“I went to prison so you won’t have to. I am your wake-up call,” he added.

Navarro also outlined how he ended up in prison, saying Democrats demanded that he “betray” Trump to prevent himself from being sent to prison.

“Here’s how I got in prison. The legislative branch came for me first. Your favorite Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, created your favorite committee, the sham Jan. 6 committee, which demanded that I violate executive privilege. What did I do? I refused,” he said.

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Navarro, who served as Trump’s trade adviser, was the second Trump aide convicted of a misdemeanor contempt of Congress charge. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“The [Jan. 6] committee demanded that I betray Donald John Trump to save my own skin. I refused,” he added. “They demanded that I break the law because they have no respect for it. I refused, and a Democrat majority in the House then voted to hold me in contempt. … Jack Smith indicted and prosecuted me for criminal contempt of Congress. Now, here’s what’s weird about it. It’s something that Democrat prosecutors refuse to do against one of their own, including two guys with blood on their hands, Eric Holder and Alejandro Mayorkas.”

Navarro, who served as Trump’s trade adviser, was the second Trump aide convicted of a misdemeanor contempt of Congress charge. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon previously received a four-month sentence but was allowed to stay free pending appeal by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.

“They convicted me. They jailed me. Guess what? They did not break me. And they will never break Donald Trump,” Navarro said Wednesday.

Navarro said he could not cooperate with the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack because Trump had invoked executive privilege, an argument that lower courts have rejected.

Peter Navarro stands with his fiancee, Bonnie, as he speaks on Day three of the Republican National Convention, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024.  (Mike Segar/Reuters)

“When I received that congressional subpoena, the second, I had an honest belief that the privilege had been invoked, and I was torn. Nobody in my position should be put in conflict between the legislative branch and the executive branch. Is that the lesson of this entire proceeding? Get a letter and a lawyer? I think in a way it is,” Navarro said in January.

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“I am disappointed with a process where a jury convicted me, and I was unable to provide a defense, one of the most important elements of our justice system,” he said.

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Senate lawmakers were left with more questions than answers on Wednesday following a conference call with the U.S. Secret Service on the attempted assassination of former President Trump, with one senator calling it “100% cover-your-a– briefing.”

The Secret Service privately briefed the senators as questions still remain about how the gunman who shot Trump was able to get on a roof roughly 200 yards from where he was speaking to supporters. 

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said the meeting was a “100% cover-your-a– briefing” as the Secret Service and its director, Kimberly Cheatle, continue to come under scrutiny.

His office said “no one has taken responsibility” despite the gunman having been “identified as being suspicious one hour before the shooting.”

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

“He had a rangefinder and a backpack. The Secret Service lost sight of him. No one has taken responsibility. No one has been held responsible. Someone has died. The president was almost killed. The head of the Secret Service needs to go,” Barrasso said, referring to Cheatle. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said she was “appalled” after learning the Secret Service knew about a threat prior to Trump walking on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

“I have no confidence in the leadership of Director Cheatle and believe it is in the best interest of our nation if she steps down from her position,” she wrote on X after Wednesday’s briefing.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the country deserves answers and accountability, while calling for Cheatle to step down. 

Meanwhile, more than two dozen Texas lawmakers are calling for the House Oversight Committee to look into “political rhetoric” used against Trump prior to the shooting. Republican State Rep. Ellen Troxclair spearheaded a letter to the committee and Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Wednesday, requesting they also look into “grotesque depictions of President Trump and the tens of millions of fellow Americans that support him as ‘enemies’ or ‘threats to democracy’ ahead of the assassination attempt.”

“Americans deserve answers,” the lawmakers wrote, first thanking the committee for opening an investigation into the deadly incident. “At minimum, we need to understand how the attempted assassination was able to occur and what will be done to ensure it does not happen again.”

On Monday, Cheatle said the Secret Service would cooperate with an independent review announced by President Biden.

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“The Secret Service is working with all involved federal, state and local agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent an incident like this from ever taking place again. We understand the importance of the independent review announced by President Biden yesterday and will participate fully,” she said.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had just completed a quasi-clandestine meeting with President Biden at Rehoboth Beach, Del., late Saturday afternoon.

An alarming number of House and Senate Democrats were growing increasingly uneasy with Mr. Biden as the prospective Democratic standard-bearer this fall. No one knew that Schumer made the pilgrimage to Rehoboth to huddle with the president – and have a frank conversation about what Democratic senators felt about him staying in the race. The number of Democrats who wanted him out likely increased after Biden lieutenants met with Democratic senators on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon.

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Schumer’s meeting with President Biden wasn’t entirely a surprise. After all, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., met with the president on Thursday night. Both men served as emissaries from their respective caucuses, carrying messages of concern from rank-and-file members about Mr. Biden forging ahead with his campaign.

The announcement that Schumer huddled with the president hit reporter in-boxes at 6:05 pm ET Saturday.

The message offered no details or specifics. But it didn’t need to. Just the fact that Schumer made a sojourn to communicate those messages from fellow Democrats to the President of the United States spoke volumes.

“I sat with President Biden this afternoon in Delaware; we had a good meeting,” read a statement from Schumer.

Such news would have rattled the political landscape.

A side-by-side view of U.S. President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (Getty Images)

But not on this Saturday night.

A gunman nearly assassinated former President Trump at 6:11 pm et, just five minutes after the Schumer statement.

Any conversation about President Biden and schisms inside the Democratic Party would wait.

The shooting bought Mr. Biden more time. Keep in mind that the debate where the president’s performance so rattled Democrats came on June 27. The shooting allowed President Biden to continue to hold the ball and drain the clock.

The political world was agog Saturday, watching to see if more Democrats would demand President Biden step aside. Mr. Biden conducted two conference calls Saturday afternoon. One with the House Progressive Caucus. The other with the House “New Dems” Coalition. At that point, 19 Democrats had called on the president to stand down in his re-election bid. 13 were members of the New Dems. Fox is told that the call did little to buoy the confidence of skittish members. One source forecast that the number of Democrats calling for the president to bow out of the race may have spiked to 50 later that night or Sunday morning.

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As we have written in this space before, late British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan opined that “events” were the most important factors in politics.

Well, there was a seismic political event over the weekend. And that immediately arrested any effort by Democrats to potentially bounce the president from the race.

The inertia to sideline Mr. Biden which built for weeks suddenly froze.

And it helped President Biden stay put.

“He’s dug in,” said one senior House Democrat to Fox of the president. “We can’t have this circular firing squad.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

In fact, the “event” of the Trump shooting highlighted the recent fractures in the party over Mr. Biden – while it actually brought Republicans closer together.

One senior House Democratic source told Fox that in recent years, “unity” was the Democrats’ calling card. But the president’s poor debate in late June challenged that alliance.

“That armor has been exposed,” said one senior House Democratic aide. “And now Republicans are using their unity against us.”

That’s why Democrats are freaking out. Again.

Fox is told that Democrats know that the former President Trump’s survival and iconic photo after the shooting bolstered his standing with voters. Democrats were already down on their chances after the debate. Now they are even more worried. Especially as it pertains to House and Senate contests in battleground districts and states.

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So conversations are again intensifying about President Biden’s political viability. It started with a letter from some Congressional Democrats asking the DNC to delay the virtual roll call on August 7. Schumer and Jeffries also spoke. They requested the DNC move back the nomination.

For Democrats, it’s probably a good thing that a week of the Republican convention in Milwaukee is shrouding the Democratic disarray. Most of the news cycle is dominated by the investigation into the shooting, the introduction of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as former President Trump’s running mate. Even discussion about Project 2025 is probably good cover for the Democrats right now. That’s because the internal schisms are real. And the party isn’t much further along from extracting President Biden from the ticket than it was a few weeks ago.

As Harold MacMillan would say this “event” temporarily muted public calls to dump the president. But that’s all it did. It suppressed those conversations. However, the Democrats’ worry never really dissipated.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at a press conference on June 4 in Chicago. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Some of that shroud may even continue when Democrats return to Capitol Hill next week. That’s because everyone will train so much focus on a scheduled hearing with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday before the House Oversight Committee. That’s to say nothing of a hearing planned by the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. Even a pre-scheduled hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will likely roll out his bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt. And there will be all sorts of reactions from lawmakers as other details dribble out. Keep in mind this is the first time Congress has been back in Washington since the shooting.

Don’t forget that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress on Wednesday. Surely the controversy over that won’t garner any attention.

Perhaps all the other “events” help Democrats who want to remove President Biden from the ticket. Any such operation is messy at best. All the other things might shroud such extraordinary political gymnastics.

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But that doesn’t mean those efforts aren’t going on behind the scenes. And because it involves the sitting President of the United States, all of this will eventually gurgle back to the top of the news cycle.

And that will be an event unto itself.

House Republican leaders are calling for accountability after the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump on Saturday.

“I think there are so many questions that need to be answered, and I don’t know who is to blame. I don’t know what the breakdowns are, I clearly know there were breakdowns. But let’s find out who’s responsible and then people need to be held accountable,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital.

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chair Richard Hudson, R-N.C., said the shooting was likely the result of a “major security breakdown.”

“One of my initial reactions as I was watching this unfold on television was anger – how could this happen? How can a person with a gun get to a rooftop that overlooks the stage that close to the former president?” Hudson told Fox News Digital.

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Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

“I’m no security expert…but I do have some familiarity with rifles and scopes. And that was a very close distance. And the fact that rooftop was available for that shooter, I just can’t understand. So you know, I want to hear what happened.”

A 20-year-old gunman opened fire on Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania from a nearby roof over the weekend, killing one attendee and critically injuring two others. Trump was shot in the ear before he ducked behind the podium and pulled off the stage by his Secret Service detail.

But the situation has led to lawmakers questioning how the gunman could get so close to a heavily secured area, despite people seeing him climb up onto the building he fired from. There were also heavily armed police inside that building, according to reports.

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer called for accountability  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., both called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign.

Emmer and Hudson would not go that far, telling Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention (RNC) that they wanted to see what details could be uncovered before making their judgment.

FBI Director Christopher Wray held member-wide briefings with both the House and Senate on Wednesday to discuss lawmakers’ questions and concerns.

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Rep. Richard Hudson, chair of House Republicans’ campaign arm, said he wanted to know how the shooter got so close to the rally perimeter

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A source familiar with the House’s call said it lasted roughly 45 minutes, and that lawmakers found Wray and Cheatle’s answers unsatisfying. 

The source said Johnson would set up a classified briefing for lawmakers next week when the House is back in session.

Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI and Secret Service for comment but not hear back by time of publication.

MILWAUKEE – GOP Congressman Darrell Issa previewed what he expects to see in the foreign policy speeches on Wednesday night at the GOP convention and outlined what he believes a second Trump term will mean for the world. 

“When I think about Trump foreign policy, Russia didn’t gain an inch during his tenure, having taken Crimea under his predecessor, Obama,” Issa, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday before Republicans took the stage in Milwaukee to talk foreign policy.

“I think about the fact that China did not aggressively go after Taiwan the way they are today, or the Philippines, where they’re literally stealing fish out of the water by force. I think of the fact that the Houthis and Iran were not active and literally interrupting global trade. All of these things happened in the last three and a half years under a weak Biden administration, and they won’t, didn’t and won’t happen under a Trump administration.”

“Make America Strong Once Again” is the theme of the third day of the convention, where speakers will outline Trump’s foreign policy agenda and argue against Biden’s record.

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Republicans are expected to hammer President Biden on foreign policy at the RNC on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“Under Joe Biden, the weakest commander in chief in our country’s history, America has become a global laughingstock,” the RNC said in a press release.

“From our dumpster fire of a southern border to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the Hamas-Israeli war to enabling the Iranian terrorist regime, Biden has repeatedly made the wrong move on the world stage. Under President Trump’s vision, America will once again be strong and secure and put an end to the Biden-Harris administration’s weakness. President Donald J. Trump will secure our borders, curb Chinese and Iranian threats, and restore America’s rightful standing on the world stage.”

The night of foreign policy speeches comes shortly after it was reported that Iran has been plotting to assassinate Trump, which Issa also connected to Biden’s foreign policy.

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Rep. Darrell Issa speaks as Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 10, 2021. (Ting Shen-Pool/Getty Images)

“Under President Trump, Iran was exporting less than 200,000 barrels of oil a day,” Issa said. “They’re exporting more than 2 million barrels a day. For that much money, of course, they would plot to kill the incoming president.”

Issa told Fox News Digital that one of the key aspects of foreign policy that Republicans need to explain is the importance of showing “strength” to other nations.

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Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, May 30, 2024. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)

“The world is a dangerous place when America is weak and doesn’t lead, and the world can be a safe and stable place when America is strong and can lead others to have strength,” Issa said. 

“President Trump issued a mandate to NATO to get up to their 2% and they were a little bit complacent. They’re not complacent anymore because they know he was right. They know his policies were right before and his policies will be right in the next four years.”

Biden has often leaned on his foreign policy record in recent weeks as he faces calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race, as recent Fox News polling shows Trump has a 10-point lead on foreign policy with voters.

Speakers set to hit the stage on Wednesday before vice presidential nominee JD Vance include: Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. David Bellavia, Rep. Michael Waltz, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former acting Director of the United States National Intelligence Ric Grenell, Gold Star family members Alicia Lopez and Herman Lopez and Cheryl Jules and Christy Shamblin, and Donald Trump Jr.

Speaking for the first time publicly since the assassination attempt of former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the violence during a speech Wednesday in Michigan.

“As we all know, it was a heinous, horrible, cowardly act,” Harris said during a moderated campaign event in Kalamazoo. “Thankfully, he was not seriously injured.”

She said as soon as she and her husband Doug saw what was happening, they said a prayer for his well-being, and that their thoughts immediately turned to Trump’s wife, Melania.

“The bottom line is, no one should have to fear for the safety of a loved one because they serve in public office,” Harris continued.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event, Wednesday, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Harris also shared her condolences with the family and friends of Corey Comperatore, who was struck by gunfire and killed at the rally while protecting his family.

“Our heart goes out to the family of Corey Comperatore, a true hero who died protecting his family. And Doug and I, of course, are holding them close in our hearts. We are also wishing those who were critically injured that day a swift and full recovery. And we are thankful to the United States Secret Service, the first responders and local authorities.”

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Law enforcement officers survey the scene where former President Trump was shot during a campaign rally on Saturday, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Harris said that the shooting also raised questions about how they should engage with each other during the campaign.

“The United States of America, I believe, is the greatest democracy the world has ever known. But in the aftermath of this weekend’s shootings, one of the questions we now confront is about the way we should engage with one another in this campaign,” Harris said. 

“On Sunday evening, our President Joe Biden issued a call for unity. And there must be unity around the idea that while our nation’s history has been scarred by political violence, violence is never acceptable. There can be no equivocation about that.”

Harris’s speech came one day after Biden delivered remarks at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, where he once again called on people to “lower the temperature” in American politics following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, before repeatedly attacking Trump in his remarks.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally Saturday in Butler, Pa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Just a few days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, we’re grateful he’s not seriously injured. We continue to pray for him and his family,” Biden said. “It’s time for an important conversation in this country. It’s gotten too heated.”

He referenced his Oval Office speech, saying it’s time to lower the temperature and condemn violence in any form. 

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“We have to say with one voice that violence is not the answer. That’s what we should rally around as a nation. That’s the unity I’m talking about. Few organizations know that better than the NAACP,” Biden said.

Fox News’ Nick Rojas contributed to this report.