US election live: ‘They don’t think like us’ – Walz attacks Trump and Vance in pitch for rural votes

US election live: ‘They don’t think like us’ – Walz attacks Trump and Vance in pitch for rural votes

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Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the US Secret Service was “negligent” in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

David Dutch, 57, an ex-Marine, and James Copenhaver, 74, a retired liquor store manager, told NBC News in an exclusive interview yesterday they were excited to be sitting in the bleachers behind the Republican nominee at the fairgrounds in Butler on 13 July when gunshots rang out and they were hit.

Another man, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting while shielding his family. Trump was wounded in the ear.

The interview was the two men’s first public statements since 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire in July from an unsecured rooftop nearby before he was fatally shot by sharpshooters.

“It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer right in the chest,” said Dutch. He said he could see chunks of the bleacher and metal “flying all around” until the shooting stopped.

He said he was still “angry that the whole situation even happened. It should have never happened.” NBC News reported the two men’s attorneys said they were looking into possible litigation over what they view as negligence by the Secret Service.

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