Trump claims being president is a ‘dangerous business’ and praises Harris for ‘very nice call’ at town hall: Live

Trump said he would like to meet the woman who took a picture of the license plate of the man who was detained following the second attempted assassination of the former president.

“This woman was unbelievable, because I actually asked the sheriff, if it happened 1,000 times, would anybody have done that? He said, maybe, but not much, not much. So she did [an] … amazing job,” he said.

He also called the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, “a sophisticated guy.”

He added: “He even had the serial number taken off the rifle.”

Trump told the Michigan crowd on Tuesday night that he “saw that Putin the other day endorsed Kamala.”

He added: “And you have to understand, these are major chess players, so when he endorses Kamala, he may say, ‘Well, I did that because I love you and it’s better to be doing it’ … he endorsed Kamala, which is a little unusual. I was watching. I said, it’s interesting. I think that’s a good thing, isn’t it? It really is.”

To boos from the audience, Trump said he received a “very nice” call from Kamala Harris after the most recent attempted assassination.

“I have to say that President Biden called me yesterday, was … a very nice conversation. I appreciated that he called about, you know what happened the other day,” Trump said.

“A little while ago, I got a very nice call from Kamala. It was very nice … and we appreciate that, but we have to take back our country. We have to win. We’re going to win, and we’re going to make America great again,” he added.

Addressing the recent assassination attempt, Trump said, “It’s a dangerous business … being president, it’s a little bit dangerous.”

He added: “You know, they think race car driving is dangerous. They think bullriding, that’s pretty scary, right? No, this is a dangerous business, so we have to keep it safe.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump White House Secretary and current Arkansas governor, slammed Kamala Harris during her opening remarks at the town hall event with former President Donald Trump in Flint, Michigan.

“Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” she said. “You would think after four years of straight failure, she would know a little humility. Unfortunately, she doesn’t. You would think after four years of wide open borders, skyrocketing inflation, and an embarrassment on the national stage, she would be held accountable for the failures of this administration, but she thinks she can walk away and get out of it but we’re not going to let her.”

USA Today reports that nearly half of Republicans say they won’t accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would “take action to overturn” the results, according to data released Tuesday.

Roughly a quarter of Democrats says they wouldn’t accept the results if their candidate loses and far fewer would “take action to overturn” the results.

The data was gathered by the World Justice Project which indexes how strong the rule of law if in more than 100 countries. It was part of a larger study that saw online interviews conducted with 1,046 American households between June 10 -18.

The report did not ask people what specific “action” they would take to overturn the election results, just that 46% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats wouldn’t accept results, and 14% of Republicans compared with 11% of Democrats said they would “take action.”

Elizabeth Andersen, the group’s executive director, said the results are “kind of startling” and amount to about one-third of Americans being unwilling to accept the presidential election results if their candidate loses.

Nearly half of Donald Trump voters say they believe his debunked claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating residents’ pets.

Some 52 percent of Trump voters said that the claim is “definitely” or “probably” true, according to a post-debate poll by YouGov released this week. Meanwhile, 24 percent of Trump voters said they’re “not sure” if it’s true, while 25 percent said it’s “probably” or “definitely” false.

On the other hand, 81 percent of Kamala Harris voters said the claim is “definitely false.”

Katie Hawkinson has the story.