President Biden’s campaign said it was “pausing all outgoing communications” and was working to halt television advertising as quickly as possible following the mass shooting at former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Gunshots rang out at Trump’s rally in Butler, a town in the west Keystone State north of Pittsburgh, and Trump was hurriedly removed from the stage.
“A suspected gunman fired multiple shots at the stage from an elevated position outside the rally venue. U.S. Secret Service agents neutralized the gunman, who is now deceased,” a Secret Service statement said.
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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures with his bloodied face as multiple gunshots ring out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, on July 13, 2024. (Reuters/Brendan McDiarmid)
“One spectator was killed and two were seriously injured,” the Secret Service added in a statement.
The shooting occurred minutes after Trump began speaking at the rally, with the visibly bloodied former president being hurried off the stage by Secret Service agents.
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“I was shot above my right ear,” Trump said in a social media post.
Trump and Biden are locked in a heated rematch in 2024. The Biden campaign last week launched a month-long, $50 million advertising offensive, airing commercials in key battleground states.
President Joe Biden speaks in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Saturday, July 13, 2024, after news that shots had rang out at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania for former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Senatar)
“The Biden campaign has paused all external communications and is working to cease television advertising as soon as possible,” a Biden campaign official said in a statement.
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The shooting occurred two days before the Republican National Convention began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Trump is due to be formally nominated as the GOP’s delegate for 2024.
The Democratic National Committee told Fox News it is in the process of removing the ads that were placed on 57 Milwaukee city buses on Monday.
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