Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running against each other for president. Still, when the two debated earlier this month, it was the first time they had ever met in person, although the two would have a second in-person meeting the following day at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York. It’s similar to Trump and Barack Obama, who have tangled bitterly for years but appear to have only ever met once, at the White House days after the 2016 election.
This week, after a gunman was arrested outside Trump’s golf course in Florida, reportedly to assassinate the former president, the two candidates shared a phone call, and both candidates have since detailed what was discussed.
At her appearance in Philadelphia this week at the National Association of Black Journalists event, the vice president revealed that she had called Trump to “check in” following the assassination attempt.
“I checked in to see if he was okay,” Harris told the audience at the event, per Mediaite. “And I told him what I have said publicly. There is no place for political violence in our country. I am in this election, in this race for many reasons, including to fight for our democracy. And in a democracy, there is no place for political violence.”
WATCH: VP Harris recalls her phone call with Trump to check if he was OK and tell him There’s NO Place For Political Violence in a Discussion with Black Journalists in Philadelphia. pic.twitter.com/3TzWYUbmIE
— Chris Borkowski (@cborkowski) September 18, 2024
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Trump also spoke publicly about his phone call with his opponent, stating that both Harris and President Biden were “nice” to him when they called after the assassination attempt. When he got to the part about about Harris- his rally audience booed on cue.
“But, you know, in one way, I sort of wish I the call wasn’t made because I do feel and he’s so, so nice. I’m so sorry about what happened and all that, but I have to lay it out. We have very important and the same with Kamala today. She could not have been nicer. But the fact is, the fact is, we have to have people that are respected by the opponent, by the other side, by other countries.”
At a Town Hall in Flint, Michigan @realDonaldTrump says that he received a “very nice call” from @KamalaHarris about the assassination attempt against him. pic.twitter.com/bZOuHmP6V4
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 17, 2024
Might this kick off a new era of civility in our politics? That’s highly unlikely. But it appears, for one day anyway, that the presidential race is being conducted in something other than bitter acrimony.
Elon Musk, earlier this week, posted and later deleted a question on X, about why no one has tried to kill Biden or Harris, something which has drawn the attention of the Secret Service, although Musk claimed he was joking.
While there have been no attempts on Harris’ life, at least in terms of a gunman physically showing up in her vicinity, there have been arrests made in assassination threats, including a Virginia man who was charged in August with threatening to kill the vice president. Those threats, per a criminal complaint, were made on the conservative social media site GETTR.
Featured image via Political Tribune Gallery.
