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94% : Johnson and his wife, Kelly, visited with Trump afterward for about three hours, and the speaker said he was in "good spirits.
83% : Trump, in a statement issued by his campaign, said, "We had a very nice call.
76% : "He was very nice, that he called up to make sure that I was OK," Trump said of his conversation with the president, adding that Biden also sought his input on whether "we need more people on my detail.
75% : The former president is taking part in an X Space about the launch of World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform controlled by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric.From his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, Trump commended the Secret Service for doing an "excellent job.
58% : "Trump and Biden spoke by phone MondayBiden conveyed his relief that the former president is safe and the two shared a cordial conversation, according to the White House.
58% : Trump had returned to Florida this weekend from a West Coast swing that included a Friday night rally in Las Vegas and a Utah fundraiser.
51% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWRowe said he spoke with the former president and that Trump is "aware that he has the highest levels of protection" from the agency.
50% : Trump will address X for the launch of his sons' crypto businessTrump is expected to deliver remarks about cryptocurrency and the launch of World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform controlled by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric.
49% : "Biden told reporters that the Secret Service "needs more help," adding, "Thank God the president's OK."Trump repeatedly pivots to his stump speechIt's an interview about crypto, but Trump has several times pivoted to many of the issues typical of his campaign stump speeches.
49% : Trump planned a town hall Tuesday in Flint, Michigan, with his former press secretary, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, followed by a rally Wednesday on New York's Long Island.
47% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe tone was different than the one Trump adopted immediately after the Pennsylvania assassination attempt in July, when he called for unity and a cooling of the campaign's tenor, including during his speech at the Republican National Convention.
46% : "The House's bipartisan task force on the July assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania is monitoring the situation and has requested a briefing.
44% : "A 'much better result'Trump says the apparent attempt on his life was a "much better result" than when he was shot in July because no others were wounded or killed.
43% : In addition to Trump and Biden, that list also includes Harris, vice presidential candidates, other former presidents and their families and others.
41% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWJD Vance tells evangelical activists that Trump is the 'pro-life' presidentJD Vance told evangelical activists in a presidential battleground state that the former president and GOP nominee is the clear choice for anti-abortion voters this November.
41% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe Republican speaker was on his way to visit Trump on Sunday when the former president was targeted while golfing.
40% : "That was some crazy day, and yesterday you had another one with a different result, actually much better result," Trump said.
40% : "Trump also noted that a civilian woman in the area drove her vehicle to the back of Routh's vehicle and took pictures of the license plate, which she then gave to authorities, who were able to track the suspect down.
40% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWFox News host Sean Hannity, a close friend of the former president's, said on air Sunday that he had spoken with Trump and Witkoff, who told him that Secret Service agents "pounced on" Trump and "covered him" to protect him.
39% : "I mean I look at the federal government, with all due respect to them, those same agencies that are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this?"DeSantis added that while the federal government has its "prerogative," "we have our prerogative.
39% : "Congressional task force requests Secret Service briefingThe leaders of a bipartisan task force in Congress that has been investigating the assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally in July said it is monitoring the Florida situation and has requested a briefing by the Secret Service.
37% : His campaign had not advised about any public plans for Trump on Sunday.
36% : Trump recounts the apparent assassination attemptHe and his friends playing golf "heard shots, being fired in the air, and I guess probably four or five."Trump said they got into carts "and we moved along pretty good.
32% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWFarokh, the event's host, began by applauding Trump for not canceling his appearance.
31% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWKemp told the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Georgia Victory Dinner crowd that Trump must be returned to the Oval Office to spare the nation a Harris administration.
31% : He said it's understandable that former presidents like Trump do not have the same level of protection as a sitting president.
30% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump said an agent had seen a gun barrel "and started shooting in the bushes ... and ran toward the target.
30% : Trump has argued that the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning a woman's federal right to terminate a pregnancy is enough because it steered abortion regulation back to state governments.
29% : ""I would have loved to have sank that last putt," Trump said, of not being able to finish the round of golf.
29% : Vance did not explicitly acknowledge the platform language but praised Trump for nominating three Supreme Court justices who helped strike down abortion rights at the federal level.
28% : McConnell calls for soul-searchingSenate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said this second apparent assassination attempt on Trump ought to be "a moment of soul-searching for all Americans.
27% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW"Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones that are destroying the country -- both from the inside and out," Trump said in comments to Fox News Digital.
26% : "They use highly inflammatory language," Trump told Fox News Digital.
24% : Trump was 'courageous', his golf partner saysSteve Witkoff, Trump's golf partner on Sunday, says the former president's reaction to the apparent assassination attempt was "courageous and stoic.
24% : Trump said Monday in an interview with Fox News Digital that the accused gunman "believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it."The former president went on to say, "Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country -- both from the inside and out.
23% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe governor said he had not yet spoken to Trump.
22% : "Reed said separately in an interview with The Associated Press that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters still does not justify calling Trump a threat to democracy.
20% : He also said Democrats cannot call Trump a "threat to democracy" and "a fascist" and expect that violence would not follow, because "some crazy person" decides "to take matters into their own hands.
20% : But he argued that two apparent assassination attempts against Trump prove that Democrats are worse.
18% : The co-founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, Reed used his group's gala in Georgia on Monday night to say that criticism of Trump as a "would-be dictator" and threat to democracy is part of a pattern of "lies and smears and slurs" that have effectively given permission to "anyone with a screw loose" to think "they were doing a public service by trying to end his life.
15% : "Kamala Harris of 2020 wouldn't even recognize the Kamala Harris of today," Kemp said, suggesting a President Harris would ban fracking and end private health insurance.
15% : But, he said, Trump also isn't like former presidents Obama or Clinton for example.
14% : Trump blames political rivals' rhetoric for Sunday's apparent attempt on his lifeTrump is blaming his political rivals' rhetoric for Sunday's apparent attempt on his life.
12% : Trump has talked about his views on the need to reform immigration, blaming what he sees as the country's wrong direction on his Democratic foes, including Harris and saying there are "evil forces" at play in the U.S.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWAs he has repeatedly, Trump referred to the replacement of Biden with Harris atop the Democratic presidential ticket as "a coup, in the truest sense.
12% : "Routh, the man accused of trying to shoot at Trump on Sunday, had expressed support for Trump online in as recently as 2020, but in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on him, expressing support for Biden and Harris.
11% : As Trump often does, Kemp offered a sweeping, dark view of what the Democratic nominee would do in office.
10% : House will demand more Secret Service protection for Trump, Johnson saysHouse Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will be demanding more Secret Service protection for Trump, saying he needs more attention than any other protectee.
9% : "The president's comments came after Trump said, without evidence, that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris inspired another apparent attempt on his life, deriding their criticism of him as a threat to democracy despite his own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.
7% : "Trump has in recent weeks regularly called Democratic nominee Kamala Harris a "communist" and a "fascist" -- ideologies at the opposite ends of the left-right political spectrum.
2% : Kemp and Trump had previously been at odds since the 2020 presidential election when the Georgia governor refused to help Trump overturn his defeat at the hands of now-President Biden.

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