September 18:
The White House issued a statement warning Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance about the dangers of his remarks on Vice President Kamala Harris not having experienced an assassination attempt. On November 5, Vance will face off against Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, and his Republican running mate, former President Donald Trump, is vying to defeat her.
Following the Secret Service's unsuccessful assault on Trump's life on September 15 while he was golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida—what the FBI described as an apparent assassination attempt—, Trump and Vance have intensified their attacks on Harris and Democrats.
"The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that ... no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months," Vance, who represents Ohio in the Senate, said. Democratic critics should "tone down" his suggestion. Press secretary for the president Karine Jean-Pierre made the suggestion that Vance's comments could endanger Harris.
"When you make comments like that, all it does is ... opens an opportunity for people to listen to you and potentially take you very seriously, and so it's dangerous to have that type of rhetoric out there," she told the media on Sep. 17. Terror specialists believe that the deadly attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was inspired by so-called stochastic terrorism, in which unstable individuals are occasionally driven to violence by hate speech, online extremism, and public figures.
Jean-Pierre brought attention to the fact that Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has requested a reduction in heated political speech."That is not the way we should be speaking. She firmly stated that we ought not to utter such words. "We gotta tone it down."
According to Harris and Biden, Trump's actions, such as his denial of the 2020 election's results and his call for his supporters to descend upon the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, constitute a danger to American democracy. In a tweet on the X social media site, entrepreneur Elon Musk pondered the absence of murder attempts on Biden and Harris, a sentiment shared by Vance.
The post was later removed by Musk, who owns the network (now called Twitter) and supports Trump. The United States Secret Service, which is responsible for the safety of the president and other high-ranking government officials, acknowledged that he was the author.
