Trump (78) will run against Democrat Harris (59), who is currently Biden’s vice president, in the presidential election on November 5. Polls so far indicate a very close race.
The incident raises further questions about the safety of the presidential candidates. The suspect appears to have managed to get within a few hundred meters of Trump with a rifle. Biden spoke out on Monday in favor of strengthening the Secret Service. The bodyguards need more help, he said. “And I think Congress should respond to that need.” The Republican Chairman of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, also called for more protection.
Violence against high-ranking politicians has occurred time and again in the USA – even presidents have been targeted several times. In 1865, US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the box of a theater in the capital Washington while watching a comedy. US President John F. Kennedy was shot in an assassination attempt on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. When President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington in 1981, a bodyguard threw himself over him to protect him.
