In her first rally as a presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris Harris framed the race with Donald Trump as a choice between “freedom” and “chaos.” Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Harris on Tuesday, capping off their party’s swift embrace of her 2024 candidacy. Meanwhile, Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service stepped down from her job following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump .
Follow the AP’s Election-2024 coverage at: https://apnews.com/hub/election-2024 . Here's the Latest: Donald Trump said he does not think Kimberly Cheatle “had much of a choice” but to leave her post as Secret Service director after mounting questions about an assassination attempt against the former president.
“It should have happened, I would say, within an hour, not nine days, ten days,” he said during a Newsmax interview Tuesday. “That would seem to be inevitable.” But Trump said he still feels physically safe as the Republican nominee.
“I have to feel safe. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to do this stuff,” he said. The former president said he believes his protective detail, “should have had people on that rooftop” where the gunman fired his shots, “and they should have told me that there was a problem.
” Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, on Tuesday afternoon said on social media that she is not voting for former President Trump. “I’m not voting for Trump & I’m n.
