Trump narrowly leads Biden in new general election poll conducted after assassination attempt
Former President Donald Trump is narrowly leading President Joe Biden , according to a new poll.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted in the days after Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally Saturday, found that the former president leads Biden by two percentage points in a general election matchup, 43% to 41%.
The poll, released Tuesday, also found that the majority of registered voters are concerned over “chaos” in America. About 80% of registered voters said they believe that “the country is spiraling out of the control” after the assassination attempt on Trump.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online with a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
The survey was released on the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC), where Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, were officially nominated as the GOP’s candidates for 2024 election.
Michigan rep posts video response to Stephen Colbert’s joke about his RNC speech: ‘Touché’
Rep. John James, R-Mich., responded Tuesday to “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert’s joke mocking a line in his speech at the Republican National Convention.
While delivering a monologue about the RNC, the late-night comedian commented on James’ primetime address Monday night, showing a brief portion.
“America’s the greatest idea there’s ever been,” James exclaimed in the clip.”Greatest idea? Someone obviously hasn’t tried the Taco Bell Big Cheez-It Crunch Wrap Supreme. That’s a good idea,” Colbert joked.
On Tuesday night, James responded by posting a video of himself trying a Taco Bell Big Cheez-It Crunch Wrap Supreme for the first time outside a local Taco Bell.
“Touché @StephenAtHome,” James wrote. “Tried it… wouldn’t go to war for it.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick.
Kamala Harris says JD Vance will be ‘rubber stamp’ for Trump’s ‘extreme agenda’
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a newly released video that former President Trump selected Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate to be a “rubber stamp” for the Republican White House hopeful’s “extreme agenda.”
This comes ahead of Vance’s acceptance speech on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump, now formally the Republican nominee for president, announced Vance as his pick for vice president on Monday.
“Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda,” Harris said in the video.
“Make no mistake: JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” she continued.
Harris and Vance spoke by phone after Vance’s nomination in a brief and respectful conversation, Fox News’ Alexis McAdams reports, after Harris left a congratulatory voicemail.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion.
RNC holds Great American Farm Fair to support agriculture industry
Kip Tom, who is with Famers and Ranchers for Trump, joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss the upcoming farm fair at the Republican National Convention (RNC) and recall the “surreal” moment Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Tom was present at the campaign rally where Trump survived an assassination attempt, telling Fox News he is “still processing” the tragic events of that day.
Tom added that “we need to work hard to make sure we make agriculture great again.”
“We want to continue to promote that food security is national security, yet under the Biden-Harris administration we continue to offshore many of our critical elements that we use to produce food, fiber, and energy to places like China, Russia, Belarus. We are weakening our own food security in our nation,” Tom said. “At the same time we need to reinvest in infrastructure in our nation and make sure that our bioeconomy and our contributions to exports continue to grow.”
Asked about Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance, Tom told Fox that “it’ll be great to have a president and vice president that are focused on agriculture and our food system.”
‘Defensive’ Biden lashes out at vulnerable Dems warning of November losses: reports
President Biden reportedly lashed out at fellow Democrats on a group call Saturday, insisting that questions about his viability for a second term were ridiculous.
The president allegedly exploded on Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado during the call after Crow said “without a major change, we are facing a loss in November,” according to NBC News.
“First of all, I think you’re dead wrong on national security,” Biden told Crow, according to a report from Puck News. “You saw what happened recently in terms of the meeting we had with NATO. I put NATO together. Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy.”
“Tell me!” Biden insisted during the outburst, according to the report. “Tell me who the hell that is! Tell me who put NATO back together! Tell me who enlarged NATO, tell me who did the Pacific basin.”
Where does JD Vance stand on taxes? Everything you need to know
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, was thrust into the national spotlight this week after former President Donald Trump officially tapped him to be his running mate ahead of the November election.
Vance, 39, grew up in poverty in rural Ohio and went on to attend Yale Law School before he worked as a venture capitalist in San Francisco – a rags-to-riches story that he chronicled in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Just a few years later, Vance used some of his Silicon Valley connections from his venture capital days – including right-leaning billionaire Peter Thiel – to make a foray into national politics.
Vance was elected to the Senate in 2022, with the help of more than $10 million in donations from Thiel. Since then, he has cultivated an identity on Capitol Hill as a staunch ally of Trump and has embraced many of the former president’s populist economic policies.
All about Babydog: The governor’s pet that stole the show at the RNC
Babydog is one of three canines owned by Justice and his family. They also have two Boston terriers named Lucy and Ellie, according to the governor’s campaign website for his U.S. Senate bid in November.
Babydog is an English Bulldog. Like most bulldogs, Babydog is white and tan and brown, with stubby legs and an abundance of folds around her face.
The friendly canine is four years old, but will be five in late October.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Justice made Babydog a mascot for his vaccination sweepstakes. A website was even set up to encourage vaccinations for coronavirus, titled “DoItForBabydog.wv.gov.”
According to the West Virginia governor’s official website, “Whether it be special appearances on the biggest of stages, like the Governor’s State of the State address, or simply meeting people and shaking paws in her travels, Babydog always makes everyone smile everywhere that she and the Governor go.”
Doug Burgum: Trump walked into the RNC as the ‘pinnacle of strength’
Gov. Doug Burgum, R-N.D., described the atmosphere of the Republican National Convention after the assassination attempt in an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters.
“Monday night was unbelievable. Just 48 hours after we were a millisecond away from this week being in chaos and mourning, we had the president walk in here as the pinnacle of strength,” he said.
According to Burgum, “you can feel that energy when President Trump walks in here.”
“He transferred into everybody here. And I think he’s transferred that energy to America,” he added.
The governor also previewed what he expects from Trump’s RNC remarks to Watters. “His message has always been powerful,” he claimed. “But when he came out earlier this week and said he’s tearing up a speech, he’s going to talk about unifying America, I think America is so ready for that.”
Gov. Jim Justice’s dog Babydog stole the show at night 2 of the 2024 RNC
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice spoke during the second night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his companion, a Bulldog named Babydog Justice, appeared on stage alongside him.
RNC attendees went wild for the dog and his political owner as they walked the convention floor together.Babydog, who often appears on Justice’s social media accounts supporting and promoting his agenda, patiently waited on stage for Justice. She panned the scene from left to right with a big smile as she hung back awaiting his speech’s conclusion.
Babydog’s summer bucket list includes attending a campaign event, eating chicken nuggets, meeting new voters, traveling the Great State of West Virginia, taking car rides and earning constituents’ votes, according to Justice’s Instagram account.
In January, Babydog accompanied his owner as he filed the paperwork to guarantee former President Donald Trump will appear on the ballot in the Mountain State come November.
Janelle King: Trump has a ‘unique opportunity’ to unite the GOP
Let’s Win for America Action co-chair Janelle King joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss the reaction to Nikki Haley’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech and why she believes Biden could still be ousted ahead of November.
“I thought Nikki Haley did exactly what she was supposed to do. Im not surprised whatsoever at the reaction as it relates to her going out there and giving Donald Trump a full endorsement,” King told Fox.
“I think that president trump has a unique opportunity right now. Unfortunately it came a result of him almost risking his life, almost losing his life i should say,” King said. “He has a unique opportunity to message to the people to pivot a little bit and to create this uniting force. this is an opportunity for the Republican party to stand in the gap, to show America that we understand what is going on.”
King added that she believes Haley “did the best she could do” to unite her supporters for Trump during her speech at the RNC.
Swing state Republicans say Vance could broaden Trump’s appeal in blue stronghold
Former President Trump’s allies are looking at his selection of Sen. JD Vance as a key appeal to Midwestern voters – and some New York Republican lawmakers are hopeful it’ll give the GOP a boost in their own state as well.
House GOP lawmakers representing the Democratic stronghold state held a media event on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday, a day after Trump named Vance as his running mate in the November election.
Reps. Nicole Malliotakis and Mike Lawler both pointed to Vance’s pro-union stances, which line up with policies that have won support in their districts as well.
Malliotakis pointed out that Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien, who spoke at the RNC on Monday night, gave shoutouts to a handful of Republican lawmakers including herself, Vance and Lawler “as people who have been working with labor.”
GOP, Trump notching wins despite unprecedented Dem weaponization of government: state election chief
MILWAUKEE – Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party continue defeating attacks thrown at them by the Democratic Party as the election season comes down to its final months, Wyoming’s secretary of state told Fox News Digital from the Republican National Convention.
Democrats during the “last 110 days of this election [will] do everything they can to try to blunt our momentum. I think they’re going to fail at that, because the American people see the record of this Biden administration and that it is just opposed to everything that the American people value,” Republican Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
Gray is attending the RNC, where he is chairing the Cowboy State’s delegation. Months before Trump officially became the GOP’s nominee for president on Monday, Gray was battling Democrats on the legal frontlines as they worked to prevent the 45th president from even appearing on election ballots.
Gray said that despite repeated efforts by Democrats to tie Trump up in court cases, and efforts to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot, and the overall “weaponization” of government against conservatives, the GOP and former president have come out victorious.
Exclusive: Fox News’ Brooke Singman on the first phone call between VPs Vance, Harris
Fox News’ Brooke Singman spoke with a source close to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, and informed Fox News Digital of the exclusive conversation.
“Senator JD Vance just hung up the phone with Vice President Kamala Harris,” she said. “It’s their first conversation since he was picked as President Trump’s running mate. The two had a brief and respectful conversation, the source told me. The two said they’re both looking forward to debating.”
While there is no date set for a Vance versus Harris debate, the Republican duo will hold an indoor rally one week following the assassination attempt on Trump.
The rally on July 20 will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is located around six hours from Butler, Pennsylvania, where a gunman opened fire on the former president and shot him in the ear.
Vance earned the vice presidential nomination Monday night, the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Fmr congressman lays out Dems’ years-long escalating rhetoric ahead of Trump assassination attempt
MILWAUKEE – Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin said he’s “tired” of seeing Republicans verbally and physically attacked, arguing that anti-Trump and anti-GOP rhetoric has reached new highs across the years.
“The rhetoric has gotten so bad between, yes, the bullseye comment, remember Dan Goldman making a comment about how President Trump needs to be eliminated. Bennie Thompson wants to take away Secret Service protection. One of [Thompson’s] aides was just complaining that the shooter Saturday evening had missed President Trump. I’m tired of seeing Republicans attacked like this,” Zeldin told Fox News Digital during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.
Zeldin was responding to President Biden backtracking on his comment earlier this month that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” saying the remark was a “mistake” after a 20-year-old man in Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate Trump during a rally on Saturday evening.
Zeldin reflected that verbal and physical attacks against Republicans have been ongoing and heightening for years before a shooter tried to kill the 45th president.
McCarthy says Trump showing ‘real leadership’ to the world after assassination attempt
FIRST ON FOX: President Trump is showing “real leadership” to “not just America, but the world” following the attempt on his life over the weekend — drawing a stark contrast between himself and President Biden, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.
McCarthy spoke with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention, nothing that while JD Vance is a strong pick for vice president, this election is “all about Trump and he is stronger than he has ever been.”
“Seeing President Trump, talking to him the day after the shooting, I mean, it is unbelievable that he is alive,” McCarthy said. “I think just in that sheer moment he taught, not just America, but the world, that he is a real leader.”
McCarthy told Fox News Digital that in the past several days following the assassination attempt against Trump, he has spoken with numerous world leaders who have called to check in on the former president.
Trump calls widow of firefighter who died protecting his family: ‘He was very kind’
The widow of the volunteer firefighter who was shot and killed over the weekend at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania says the former president called her and was “very kind,” a report says.
Helen Comperatore wrote on Facebook that Trump phoned her on Tuesday, three days after her husband Corey was struck with gunfire while trying to protect his family during the campaign event in Butler, according to the New York Post.
“He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead,” the widow reportedly wrote. “I told him the same thing I told everyone else. He left this world a hero and God welcomed him in. He did not die in vain that day.”
Helen Comperatore told the New York Post on Monday that her husband’s final words were “get down!”
“He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said to the newspaper from her home in Sarver, Pennsylvania. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.”
“Me and the kids were all there as a family,” she added. “He was just excited. It was going to be a nice day with the family.
Corey Comperatore, 50, was the former fire chief for the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company. The department now has a memorial set up outside its firehouse featuring Comperatore’s uniform to honor who they described as a “brother, son, husband, father and friend.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Greg Norman
What is the 25th Amendment?
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the line of succession in regard to the president, the vice president, and the president’s cabinet. Ratified two years after President John Fitzpatrick Kennedy’s assassination, the 25th Amendment contains four sections.
Section 1 establishes that the vice president assumes command should the president be removed from office, dies, or resigns. Section 2 establishes that the president may appoint a vice president should the office become vacant. Section 3 declares that the president may temporarily grant the powers of the presidency to the vice president in anticipation of temporary incapacitation, like an upcoming medical procedure. Section 4 declares that the president may be deposed by the vice president and a majority of the cabinet should the president be unfit to complete the duties of office.
Section 4 has never been formally discussed or proposed, but there are several instances when it has reportedly been considered. During the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, there were reportedly talks of removing former President Donald Trump via the 25th Amendment. Additionally, after President Biden’s 2024 debate performance raised concerns over his mental capacity, talks of removing him via the 25th Amendment have grown in the popular discourse.
Trump running-mate Vance to deliver ‘the most important speech’ of his career at RNC
MILWAUKEE, WI – The spotlight will shine firmly on GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on day three of the Republican National Convention.
