WRAPUP 4-Trump narrows vice presidential field, with Burgum and Rubio out

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump is due to formally accept the party's nomination on Thursday to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election.
48% : The focus this week will be squarely on Trump.
40% : The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would've been two days ago," Trump told the Washington Examiner.
39% : That left U.S. Senator J.D. Vance as a leading candidate, though Trump could go with a surprise pick whose name has not been circulated on a short list of contenders.
37% : Investigators say they have been unable to identify an ideology that may have inspired 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot at Trump from a rooftop outside a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania.
34% : Earlier in the day, Trump was handed a major legal victory when a federal judge dismissed one of his criminal prosecutions.
34% : Having consolidated party control, Trump could seize on the prime-time opportunity to deliver a unifying message or paint a dark portrait of a nation under siege by a corrupt leftist elite, as he has done at times on the campaign trail.
32% : Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, are locked in what opinion polls show to be a tight election rematch.
29% : Though Trump escaped serious injury, a supporter was killed.
28% : Trump was expected to reveal his running mate shortly, as the 2024 Republican National Convention got under way two days after he survived an assassination attempt.
28% : "This dismissal of the Lawless Indictment in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly by the dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts," Trump said on his Truth Social site on Monday, also referencing the prosecutions of hundreds of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
25% : Trump is due to be sentenced in New York in September for trying to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the weeks before his 2016 election victory.
23% : In the wake of the assassination attempt, Trump said he is revising his acceptance speech to emphasize national unity, rather than highlight his differences with Biden.
21% : U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the prosecutor who charged Trump with mishandling classified documents was unlawfully appointed to his role.
20% : Biden ordered an independent review of how the gunman, who was shot dead by agents, could have come so close to killing Trump.
16% : Trump said that following the judge's decision dismissing the documents case, his other outstanding prosecutions should also be thrown out.
12% : Trump continues to falsely claim that his 2020 loss to Biden was the result of widespread fraud and has not committed to accepting the results of the election were he to lose.
7% : Trump has frequently turned to violent rhetoric in campaign speeches, labeling his perceived enemies as "vermin" and "fascists," and accusing Biden without evidence of a conspiracy to undermine the United States by encouraging illegal immigration.

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