Trump and Harris campaign in Pennsylvania; Arrested rally suspect insists he works ‘closely’ with ex-president: Live
Donald Trump set to hold town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania while Kamala Harris heads to Erie
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Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are heading to Pennsylvania on Monday as they battle it out for the key swing state.
The former president will hold a town hall event in Oaks at 6pm while Harris heads to Erie to visit a small business to speak to Black men before holding a rally at 7.35pm.
This comes as the armed suspect arrested at a Trump rally in California on Saturday has insisted that he’s been “embedded with the Trump people on countless occasions.”
Vem Miller told The Independent that he’s not a would-be presidential assassin, but merely “an artist.”
He added that he has been to Trump rallies in the past and that he tells officers that he works “closely with the Trump campaign and individuals within the Trump campaign.”
Meanwhile, Fox News has revealed that Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.
The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.
Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions. It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco pushed back on Sunday against a statement from Vem Miller, a Las Vegas man arrested outside a Trump rally yesterday with illegal guns and fake ID documents.
Miller has claimed he wasn't at the event to threaten Trump, while the sheriff maintains his department stopped a likely assassination plot.
“What we do know is he showed up with multiple passports with different names, an unregistered vehicle with a fake license plate, and loaded firearms,” Bianco said at a press conference.
“If you're asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that did prevent the third assassination attempt. If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can’t say, hold crap, what did he show up with all of that stuff and loaded guns, and I'm going to be accused of being dramatic? We have a serious, serious problem in this country.”
“I don’t know how else to explain it,” he added.
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