The Latest: Trump to campaign in New York and Harris speaks at Hispanic leadership conference
Donald Trump is taking his message Wednesday to a somewhat unlikely place: suburban New York.
The Republican presidential nominee and former president is heading to Uniondale, on Long Island, an area that could be key to his party maintaining control of the House. His party is trying to protect 18 Republicans in Democratic-heavy congressional districts Joe Biden carried in 2020.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 47th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington and has trips planned later in the week to Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Here’s the latest:
A new sense of tension hung over the leadup to a Trump rally in Uniondale, New York, following the second apparent assassination attempt on the former president in as many months. Earlier Wednesday, a false report that explosives had been found in a car near the arena during a security sweep circulated online, amplified in some cases by Trump surrogate Elon Musk.
But the recent incidents didn’t scare off Eileen and Bill Deighan, a couple from nearby Yonkers.
“I know some people are scared to come, but I’m not,” said Eileen Deighan, 63, a nurse, who said that she trusted the men and women working security
