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    Why Former Obama Fundraiser Now Backs Trump
    Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump.  Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007.  “It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH the ‘Problematic Women’ Podcast: Trump, Vance, and BIG Moments From RNC
    The Daily Signal’s “Problematic Women” podcast is on-site in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention.  On this week’s edition, we discuss the biggest moments so far from the RNC, the implications of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, and why Trump chose Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate. 
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer
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    Trump Rewrites Republican Convention Speech to Focus on Unity, Not Biden
    Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the attempt to kill him and will call Thursday night for a new effort at national unity at the Republican National Convention. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner a day after his right ear was grazed by a sniper’s bullet Saturday evening,…
    Salena Zito
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    4 Senators Confront Secret Service Director at GOP Convention About Trump Shooting
    MILWAUKEE—Republican senators confronted the embattled head of the Secret Service on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention here.  “You owe President Trump answers,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., shouted after Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the RNC.  While Cheatle walked through the Fiserv Forum convention center, Blackburn, along with Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming, James…
    Virginia Allen
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    They Trust Trump to Protect Their Families From Drug Cartels, Border Residents Say
    Jim and Sue Chilton own a ranch in Arizona on the U.S.-Mexico border. Every time Jim leaves the house, Sue fears he won’t come back alive, she said Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Our house has been broken into twice,” Sue Chilton told convention delegates. “A Border Patrol agent was shot…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Vivek Ramaswamy Confirms ‘Great Conversations’ With Trump About a Cabinet Position
    MILWAUKEE—Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur, told The Daily Signal that he has had “great conversations” with Donald Trump about a potential Cabinet position if Trump wins a second term as president in November. When The Daily Signal asked whether he would take a Cabinet position in a new Trump administration, Ramaswamy confirmed…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Subpoenas Secret Service Chief Over Trump Assassination Attempt
    House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed the embattled head of the Secret Service on Wednesday for a hearing about security failures that occurred before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.  U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has said that the buck stops with her but said she is…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Johnson Sets Up ‘Special Task Force’ To Investigate Trump Assassination Attempt, ‘Serious Security Lapses’
    MILWAUKEE—House Speaker Mike Johnson shared Wednesday that he is setting up a special task force to investigate the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Johnson, R-La., said he’s spoken with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines; and the leadership of the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Biden Administration Stonewalls Congressional Investigation Into Trump Shooting
    The Biden administration has intervened to prevent the Secret Service from briefing a House committee investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, a member of the committee told Family Research Council. “After the Secret Service agreed to brief members of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security took over…
    Ben Johnson
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    God Didn’t Just Save Trump. He May Have Saved United States, Too.
    An inch. One inch, and President Donald J. Trump would be dead. One slight turn of the head. One slight turn of the head saved Donald J. Trump’s life. The fact that Donald J. Trump is alive today is a miracle. There is no other way to see it. His assassin had a clear line…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ‘Fingers Being Pointed’: Secret Service’s Explanations for Security Failures Ahead of Trump Shooting Aren’t Adding Up
    The Daily Caller News Foundation—Secret Service’s explanations for the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday aren’t adding up, according to security experts and former Secret Service agents. Emerging details highlight what seems to be a disconnect between local officials and Secret Service, while making it…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    ‘ALL OF THIS IS INTENTIONAL’: Trump Surrogate Blames Secret Service for Enabling Assassination Attempt
    MILWAUKEE—A lawyer, media consultant, and surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign blamed the Secret Service for “intentional” decisions that she said enabled the shooter to wound Trump and kill at least one other person. “I think the intentional decision was that we didn’t have enough Secret Service,” Mehek Cooke told “The Daily Signal…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Rubio Pays Tribute to ‘Hero’ Slain by Sniper at Trump Rally
    Sen. Marco Rubio paid tribute to the former fire chief killed Saturday afternoon in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in remarks Tuesday at the Republican National Convention.   Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief in Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania, was killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was attending the rally…
    Fred Lucas
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    Daughter-in-Law Shares Familial Impact of Attempt on Trump’s Life
    Lara Trump told delegates and others in the audience at the Republican National Convention that she initially had prepared a “very different speech” than the one she delivered Tuesday night. The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chairman of the Republican National Committee shared the shock of the assassination attempt on husband Eric Trump’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Carson: Trump ‘Alive and Well’ Despite Democrat Lawfare, Assassination Attempt
    Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referenced the Old Testament book of Isaiah when speaking about both Democratic lawfare and an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.  “It says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’” Carson, a world-renowned former neurosurgeon, said Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Let me…
    Fred Lucas
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    BREAKING: Nikki Haley Endorses Trump at RNC in Name of Unity
    MILWAUKEE—Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump’s foremost rival in the 2024 GOP primary, appeared at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night with a surprise announcement. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” she said. “It was a gracious invitation,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Speaker Vows ‘Thorough Investigation’ of Trump Assassination Attempt
    House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged Tuesday night that the House of Representatives would conduct an “immediate and thorough investigation” into security failures by the Secret Service prior to the assassination attempt Saturday evening on former President Donald Trump. “We are united today as Americans in the wake of the assassination attempt on the life of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bongino Open to Serving as FBI Director If Trump Wins and Asks Him
    MILWAUKEE—Radio talk-show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t keen to head back into federal government service, but if former President Donald Trump were to win a second term and asked him to, he said he would consider it. Bongino sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘Do You Just Not Say Anything?’: Biden Blames Trump for ‘Rhetoric’ After Admitting ‘Bullseye’ Comment Was a ‘Mistake’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” after a recent assassination attempt while admitting that his “bullseye” comment was a “mistake” in an exclusive interview with NBC News Monday. Within a first clip released of Biden’s interview on “NBC Nightly News,” the president was pressed on his language around Trump and…
    Hailey Gomez
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    How Gen Z Responds to Attempt to Kill Trump
    THE WASHINGTON STAND—They say “hindsight is 20/20,” and really, only time will tell just how Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump stirred (or hardened) the hearts of the American people. It would seem the immediate reactions to the shooting Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania are a mixed bag. In the…
    Sarah Holliday
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