Trump set to shift focus onto Kamala Harris in Charlotte rally: Live updates

Ahead of Donald Trump’s rally in Charlotte on Wednesday, the Democratic National Commitee (DNC) has put up billboards reminding North Carolinians of Trump’s “toxic” Project 2025 agenda.

The billboards will be live across the city of Charlotte near the Bojangles Coliseum.

In a statement released ahead of the rally, DNC Spokesperson Abhi Rahman said: “Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and JD Vance will enact their extreme Project 2025 agenda if elected in November and Democrats are doing everything in our power to stop them.

“This toxic agenda gives voters all of the proof they need that Trump and Vance aren’t looking out for North Carolinians, they’re looking out for themselves and the billionaires bankrolling their campaign.

“Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would turn the government into a tool to give Trump power like no president has ever had over Americans’ daily lives and raise costs for North Carolinians while also restricting our fundamental freedoms and enacting a national abortion ban. Democrats aren’t about to let that happen.

“Our message is simple: Look up Project 2025. We’re empowering voters with the truth about Donald Trump so voters can rally against Trump at the polls and reject Team Trump-Vance’s attacks on their rights, wallets, and democracy.”

Days before he fired an AR-15-style rifle at Donald Trump, a 20-year-old gunman had Google searched the distance between former president John F Kennedy Jr and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

In testimony to a House Oversight Committee investigating the attack, FBI director Christopher Wray said law enforcement analysis of Thomas Matthew Crooks’s devices and digital footprint have not yielded “anything notable in terms of motive or ideology,” but “it does appear fairly clear that he was interested in public figures more broadly.”

“On July 6, he did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ and so that’s a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind,” Wray said on Wednesday.

Alex Woodward has the story.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance will hold three rallies next week in key swing states.

He will deliver remarks at a rally in Henderson, Nevada on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at 1pm MT and then later at Reno, Nevada at 4.30pm.

The following day, Vance will speak in Glendale, Arizona at 6pm MT.

Donald Trump’s campaign has accused vice president Kamala Harris of committing a “heist” and a “brazen money grab” after she inherited President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign war chest.

Alex Woodward explains what’s happening.

The speech is Netanyahu’s fourth joint address to Congress. Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, received an uproarious applause. In the same way, he was flanked by many senior members of Congress and Senators. The speech comes as much of the international community has turned against Israel as it has conducted its war against Hamas after the terror group launched a surprise attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people.

Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump was watching FBI director Christopher Wray’s testimony regarding the attempt on his life today and rather than noting the revelations regarding the shooter’s drone, research, or any other new information, he found another focus… Joe Biden.

Here’s what the former president wrote on Truth Social about the boss of the bureau (whom he appointed):

I watched the Congressional Hearing today as Christopher Wray was asked the question whether or not he noticed any Cognitive Degeneration in his many conversations with Crooked Joe Biden and, despite the fact that Special Counsel Robert Hur said, effectively, that Joe Biden is INCOMPETENT, with LITTLE MEMORY, etc., Wray said that “it is not something I observed during my interactions with him, which were uneventful and unremarkable,” essentially stating that he found nothing wrong, mentally or physically, with “Joe.” If that is the case, Director Wray should resign immediately from the FBI, and stop “sweet talking” Congress every time he goes up, which he loves to do, because anybody can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically challenged, and if you can’t see that, you sure as hell can’t be running the FBI – Unless, that is, you want to illegally lead the Raid on Mar-a-Lago. Wray has to resign, and NOW, for LYING TO CONGRESS!

Childfree adults are outraged over past comments made by JD Vance about Vice President Kamala Harris, and how they’ve been judged simply for not having children.

Days before he fired an AR-15-style rifle at Donald Trump, a 20-year-old gunman had Google searched the distance between former president John F Kennedy Jr and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

In testimony to a House Oversight Committee investigating the attack, FBI director Christopher Wray said law enforcement analysis of Thomas Matthew Crooks’s devices and digital footprint have not yielded “anything notable in terms of motive or ideology,” but “it does appear fairly clear that he was interested in public figures more broadly.”