Trump (78) is running in the presidential election on November 5th against Democrat Harris (59), who is currently Biden's vice president. Polls so far indicate a very close race.
The incident once again raises questions about the security of the presidential candidates. The suspect seems 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 leader of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, also called for more protection.
Violence against high-ranking politicians has occurred again and again in the USA – presidents have also 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 protectively over him.
