Donald Trump arrives to raucous reception on second day of Republican National Convention to watch former rivals DeSantis and Haley speak

Donald Trump pumped his fist in the air as supporters cheered his arrival at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Trump entered the packed and noisy Fiserv Forum shortly after 8pm local time.

He still had a large white bandage on his right ear after being hit by a would-be assassin’s bullet on Saturday.

Trump took his seat alongside his new running mate JD Vance.

He is expected to listen to speeches by former rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley as he aims to unite the party.

Nikki Haley received some boos as she first came onstage Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.

She said she was there at former President Donald Trump’s invitation and would deliver a ‘unity’ address.

‘It was a gracious invitation and I was happy to accept,’ Trump’s former rival said.

The skepticism quickly turned to cheers as she made her plans to vote for Trump official.

‘Donald Trump has my strong endorsement. Period,’ she said.

Trump – officially the GOP nominee – was seated in the convention hall during Haley’s speech.

His other chief former rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is also slated to speak Tuesday night.

‘While standing in line to enter an event at the RNC today, I was assaulted by what appeared to be a member of the pro-Hamas group CODEPINK,’ Van Orden said.

The Wisconsin Republican added that a police officer witnessed the incident and arrested the protester.

“This appears to be an incident of political violence and I will never tolerate this.”

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Donald Trump’s VIP box on Tuesday included family members and a new lineup of politicians different from his first night at the Republican Convention.

Immediately to the former president’s left and right sat vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance and his son Eric.

The front row of the VIP section also included Arkansas Gov. and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, GOP House Whip Tom Emmer and House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik

And in the second tow behind the president sat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Tiffany Trump and her husband and Florida Reps. Cory Mills and Matt Gaetz.

Trump arrived at the GOP Convention on the second day with a bandage still over his right ear after he was shot in an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

By Emily Goodin, senior U.S. political reporter in Las Vegas

President Joe Biden stopped at Mario’s Westside Market on Tuesday, wrapping up his first day of two-day campaign swing in Las Vegas with some take out food.

Biden posed for pictures with one little boy and another little girl, kidding with them about their ages.

The president also picked up some take out, including chicken tenders, spaghetti, catfish and peach cobbler.

Biden spent about 10 minutes in the market, talking to employees and posing for pics.

Rep. Steven Horsford, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, gave Biden the tour of the grocery store and introduced him the owner, Mario Berlanga Jr.,

From Senior U.S. Political Reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice in Milwaukee:

By Charlie Spiering, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Kamala Harris and Sen. J.D. Vance finally spoke on the phone on Tuesday, setting the stage for an upcoming debate between the candidates.

On Tuesday, Vance returned a call that Harris made on Monday that went to voice mail where she left a congratulatory message for the Ohio Senator.

ABC News reporter Jon Karl described the call as ‘brief and respectful’ as the 2024 rivals for the vice presidency agreed to debate.

Both campaigns will continue negotiations for the debate format and rules as well as the decision of who will be the moderators and host.

Donald Trump’s convention deployed a reality TV star to turn up the heat on prosecutors he accuses of running politically motivated investigations.

‘We need to hold rogue prosecutors to accountability,’ said Savannah Chrisley, whose parents got sentenced to 19 years in prison but had their sentences ultimately overturned.

Chrisley, who has appeared on ‘The Masked Singer’ and in Sharknado 4 tore into the ‘warrantless raids’ in Fulton County, Georgia, the same county where Trump and alleged coconspirators were indicted on charges related to his election overturn effort.

She called for exposing ‘the Biden family’s corruption. And guess what, I know just the man for that job.’

And she called for the release of Bannon, a former chief White House strategist who reported to prison for defying a subpoena. ‘Look at what they’ve done to Steve Bannon. I mean, the man should be home,’ she said, to cheers from the GOP crowd.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Vivek Ramaswamy got the Republican National Convention crowd roaring during Tuesday’s programming, which is focused on the southern border, fentanyl crisis and national security.

The former 2024 Repiblican candidate is the son of legal immigrants and often rails against those who try to cheat the system by illegally entering the U.S.

Our message to illegal immigrants: We will return you to your country of origin. Not because you’re bad people but because you broke the law, and the United States of America was founded on the rule of law.

According to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General website, the agency has an ‘ongoing project’ open into the Secret Service’s mishandling of Trump’s Saturday rally where he was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Its Counter Terrorism and Homeland Threats division is handling the ‘new’ investigation.

Evaluate the United States Secret Service’s (Secret Service) process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024 campaign event.

‘The American people will reject the party of self-destruction,’ Speaker Mike Johnson warned in his RNC speech.

‘We can’t survive the dramatic decreases in violence, crime and drugs Democrat policies have brought up, and we cannot allow the many millions of illegal aliens they’ve allowed to cross our borders, to harm our citizens, drain our resources or disrupt our elections,’ the speaker went on.

‘They want to tear down this foundation and remold us into some sort of borderless, lawless Marxist socialist utopia. We’re here to say, Not on our watch. We will not allow that.’

It’s a runway of MAGA fashion at the Republican National Convention as the former president’s biggest supporters donned their most Donald Trump-centric, patriotic and home-state promoting apparel this week in Milwaukee, WI.

Delegates from across the country, guests and prominent members of the GOP all could be spotted dressing the part for their big event.

There were sequins, glitter, stars, stripes, elephants and a whole lot of red, white and blue as attendees hopscotched to a series of events throughout the first two days of the convention in and around the Fiserv Forum.

Murdoch had pushed Ron DeSantis in the Republican nomination race and also looked favorably on Glenn Youngkin.

He had also pushed Donald Trump to select Doug Burgum as his running mate rather than J.D. Vance.

Majority Leader Steve Scalise, also the victim of a politically motivated shooting, told the RNC audience that when he was shot at a congressional baseball practice in 2017 Trump immediately came to the hospital to visit him.

‘I need to say something about Saturday’s attempt of President Trump’s life. Many of you know I was the survivor of a politically motivated shooting in 2017. Not many know that while I was fighting for my life, Donald Trump was one of the first to come that sold my family at the hospital.’

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., amped up the crowd at the RNC when he claimed that Minnesota could turn red in November.

The Democrat-held state has long voted with Democrats, Emmer noted, saying how the state has not been led by the GOP in 50 years.

Recent polls have shown that Trump is closing Biden’s two-point lead for months.

Current averages show Trump polling one point behind the president.

GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik touted her viral antisemitism hearing moments in remarks before the RNC.

‘Around the world, the feckless and failed Joe Biden has caused chaos – weakening our national security. From the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, to Hamas’ terrorist attack against our most precious ally Israel.And what has been the response from the radical Left on our college campuses – vile antisemitism chanting Death to Israel, Death to Jews, Death to America. This is Joe Biden’s Democrat Party. Who saw that congressional hearing with the college presidents of so-called “elite” universities? President Trump will bring back moral leadership to the White House, condemning antisemitism and standing strong with Israel and the Jewish people.’

Clips from the hearings with university presidents were seen widely across the nation. Stefanik had been rumored to be under consideration for Trump’s VP pick.

Conservatives had hoped to put on a show of unity at the Republican National Convention. But one moment saw old divisions flare up as Matt Gaetz taunted Kevin McCarthy on the floor while he was being interviewed.

‘What night are you speaking? If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it. You’d get booed off the stage!’ Gaetz snickered at the California Republican.

His aide tweeted out a clip of the encounter.

Gaetz and McCarthy have a long history of sparring.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Senate candidate Sam Brown from Nevada took stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday.

America, I served you as a soldier, and I want to serve you again – as a U.S. senator.

Brown, 40, was deployed to Afghanistan when in 2008 he was wounded by an improvised explosive device that burned 30 percent of his body and caused him to lose his left index finger.

He recounted at the Convention on Tuesday that as flames engullfed his body, he heard, ‘Sir, I’ve got you,’ and now is delivering that same message to Nevada and America.

I’m gonna close with those same words I heard on the battlefield that gave me hope: America, I’ve got you.

Babydog, the official pooch of West Virginia, predicted a Republican blowout in November Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.

The English bulldog was brought onstage by her owner, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice – who’s vying to replace Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the U.S. Senate.

Justice delivered remarks seated behind the podium, while Babydog was plopped up on an armchair situated nearby.

‘Babydog says we’ll retain the majority in the House, we’re going to flip the United States Senate and overwhelmingly we’re going to elect Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance in November,’ Justice said.

The Milwaukee police confirmed they arrested a 21-year-old man for carrying a concealed weapon on Monday just blocks from where the Republican National Convention is taking place.

He was first observed looking suspicious for wearing a ski mask and large backpack. U.S. Capitol Police stopped him and it was determined he was carrying the concealed weapon in the backpack.

The backpack contained an AK47 pistol, full magazine and a scream mask, a source told Fox News.

The suspect did not have a permit for the weapon, police said. He was arrested and charges are pending.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Senate candidate Kari Lake took stage at the Reoublican National Convention on Tuesday evening and immediately tore into the press.

As the Republiucan Party tries to shift toward a message of ‘unity’ after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday, Lake continued to turn up the heat.

From the main stage at Fiserv Forum on Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Senate candidate for Arizona said:

You guys in the fake news have worn out your welcome… You’ve speant the last eight years lying about Donald Trump.

The fake news wants us to believe we are 50/50 at eachothers’ throats… Americans are actually much more united than they believe.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was proof that assault weapons need to be outlawed in the United States.

‘It was used in the shooting of Donald Trump, just as assault weapons are used to kill so many others, including children. It’s time to outlaw them. I did it once and I will do it again,’ he said.

He also said Vice President Kamala Harris could be president and tore into his Republican rival for being a ‘liar.’

Biden said that it was time ‘lower the temperature’ and then, in his speech to the annual NAACP convention, slammed Trump’s record on black issues.

He also praised Harris, noting ‘she’s not only a great vice president, she could be president of the United States.’

By Morgan Phillips, Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Instead of attending the Republican National Convention (RNC), Trump’s former running mate seems to be unplugging and unwinding in Montana. The former vice president, who has not endorsed his ex-boss, posted shots with his wife fishing, hiking and riding horses.

‘JD has one of the most intriguing life stories of any senator. He is going to bring a younger, more libertarian prospective I think he is going to help us build a bigger tent and I am thrilled,’ Blackburn told DailyMail.com.

The senator said after the attempted Trump assassination, spirits were high.

‘Everyone has come to the floor with gratitude and a renewed sense of purpose. I thought yesterday was the best day one i have ever seen. The appreciation for god sparing president trump’s life is certainly noted we continue to pray for those who lost their lives and those who were traumatized. We’ll get to the investigations next week about how in the world this could ever happen to a protectee. The Secret Service has one job. The Secret Service director should have been hauled into president biden’s office immediately.’

White high-top sneakers emblazoned with Fight, Fight, Fight have gone on sale on a website owned by former President Donald Trump.

They were inspired by the shooting at Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, runs the blurb, when the former president ‘stood tall and resilient, leading the crowd with the powerful chant ‘Fight, Fight, Fight.’

They sell for $299 on a website run by CIC Ventures, a company owned by Trump, accordint to hi his 2023 financial disclosure.

These limited edition high-tops, featuring Trump’s iconic image with his fist raised, honor his unwavering determination and bravery. With only 5,000 pairs available, each one is a true collector’s item. Show your support and patriotic pride with these exclusive sneakers, capturing a defining moment in history.

Around the Covention center banners read ‘Make America Great Once Again!’ instead of Trump’s original slogan ‘Make America Great Again’.

The banners include two large ones at either side of the stage inside the arena.

Trump has experimented with variations on the slogan previously.

At events in 2020 he used banners saying ‘Keep America Great’ which became known as ‘KAGA’.

Steve Scalise, the Republican House Majority Leader, said the assassination attempt against Trump brought back memories of his own shooting.

Scalise was shot and seriously injured in 2017 in an attack during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game. He told Politico:

A lot of emotions started coming back. I immediately started praying.

I heard the “pop, pop, pop”. It was eerily similar.

Google results say Sen. J.D. Vance is 5’7″ but the Trump campaign disputes that number.

Former Superman actor Dean Cain is predicting that Donald Trump’s ‘iconic’ response immediately after his attempted assassination will secure his reelection.

Trump narrowly escaped death on Saturday after Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired multiple shots at the former president from just 130 yards away in a spectacular security failure that is being investigated.

The ex-president luckily turned his head at the vital moment and only ended up with a bloody ear instead of a bullet to his head. He was hustled off stage by his Secret Service detail, but not before giving his supporters a clenched fist salute.

Cain told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention that Trump’s fist pump in the air seconds after he was shot was an ‘amazing and historical’ moment.

Police officers shot and killed an armed suspect a mile away from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Police from Columbus, Ohio, were involved in an ‘officer involved shooting’ just blocks from the Convention main stage, Fraternal Order of Police President Brian Steel confirmed Tuesday.

Shots were fired by at least three officers patrolling on bicycles after the man turned to them with a knife, an official told the New York Times. The incident happened near a social services building in the early afternoon.

The officers were in the city to help with the beefed-up security for the event after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Saturday.

More than 100 cops swarmed the scene near North 14th and West Vliet Streets just outside of the security perimeter after the shots rang out.

Donald Trump’s Secret Service security was increased in the weeks ahead of the assassination attempt due to intelligence of an alleged plot by Iran to take out the former president.

It does not appear at the current time that shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is connected to the Iranian plot.

Crooks, 20, shot Trump in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday before he was taken out by U.S. Secret Service.

The new report of enhanced security around the former president could raise even more questions after Republican outcry ensued on how Secret Service failed to detect the would-be assassin before he opened fire at the rally.

Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia warned Republicans the 2024 election is ‘absolutely’ not a done deal for the GOP

The Republican leader of a battleground state said he’s confident but not ‘over confident’ in GOP chances in the looming election.

Speaking at an event in Milwaukee, Kemp said he expects the race to be a ‘dogfight’ all the way to November and four months is a lifetime.

Kemp has in the past clashed with Trump as he resisted pressure to overturn the 2020 election in his state. He previously said he did not vote for the ex-president in the 2024 primary but he plans to support the GOP ticket this fall.

House Oversight Committee Spokeswoman:

After the Secret Service agreed to brief members of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security took over communications with the Committee and has since refused to confirm a briefing time.

The Oversight Committee has a long record of bipartisan oversight of the Secret Service and the unprofessionalism we are witnessing from current DHS leadership is unacceptable. 

While the Secret Service confirmed Director Cheatle is expected to appear for the Committee’s hearing on July 22, to head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack on her appearance, the Chairman will issue a subpoena for her to attend. Director Cheatle must answer to Congress and the American people about the historic failure that occurred on her watch.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in Milwaukee

For those that know about Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump‘s new running mate is ‘strong’ and ‘smart, according to a snap survey of voters for DailyMail.com.

But for many he is a new name.

‘Don’t’ and ‘know’ were the two most common terms in a wordcloud of results when 300 likely voters were asked to describe their view of the 39-year-old senator from Ohio.

Strip those out and the results trend towards the favorable: ‘Good’ and ‘leader’ edge out ‘idiot’ or ‘asshole.’

Democrats quickly went on the attack when Trump unveiled his choice on Monday, describing him as a clone of the former president who will loyally follow orders, and the results suggest that either side has the chance to define a man who is still largely unknown outside Ohio or the world of the Make America Great Again movement.

Donald Trump will return to the rally stage on Saturday, just a week after a would-be assassin’s bullet passed through his ear.

He will appear with his newly anointed running mate J.D. Vance.

But there will be a change to security arrangements after last weekend’s horrific scenes in Pennsylvania. The event will be held indoors at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit bribery in a widespread corruption plot.

He was accused of participating in a years-long foreign corruption scheme that earned him gold bars, cash and a new car.

The long-time lawmaker sat for over eight weeks in a New York federal courtroom as witnesses and prosecutors revealed the scintillating details of his alleged plan to reward multiple New Jersey businessmen with favors in exchange for payment, prosecutors alleged.

The jury deliberated over three days before reaching the verdict.

On Tuesday, they found Menendez guilty on all 16 counts against him, including acting as a foreign agent. He faces up to 222 years in prison for his crimes.

Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita told a crowd at a private RNC event that the freshly minted VP pick Sen. JD Vance will be deployed to battleground states.

The campaign is ‘is very much on offense’ in Pennsylvania, Michigan and other swing states.

‘We’re going to drop JD off in Pennsylvania and leave him there’ until November, LaCivita joked with the crowd.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has demanded New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez resign after he was found guilty of 16 counts of bribery in a huge corruption trial.

‘In light of this guilty verdict, Senator Menendez must now do what is right for his constituents, the Senate, and our country and resign’, he said.

By Morgan Phillips, Congress Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Bernie Moreno, the Republican Senate candidate in Ohio, said Donald Trump picking Vance as his running mate meant the Republican Party is now ‘firmly the party of the working class.’

‘JD Vance means that we’re never going to let American Americans be forgotten that we’re always going to advocate for ordinary Americans and make sure that they have a good opportunity here in this country. We’re not going to ship our jobs overseas. We’re not going to fight other countries wars. We’re not going to rip off American taxpayers,’ he told DailyMail.com in an interview at the RNC.

He said he knew Vance to be a ‘good human being’ and that he would be ‘an amazing vice president.’

Hours before he shot at Donald Trump would-be assassin Thomas Crooks went to Home Depot and bought a ladder.

He stopped in at the store on Saturday morning and purchased a five-foot ladder, CNN reported.

Crooks also went to a gun store and bought 50 rounds of ammunition

He then drove for an hour in his Hyundai Sonata to Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Crooks parked his car, which had an improvised bomb in it, and then used the ladder to get on to the roof of a building from where he shot.

The powerful Teamsters union is consider not backing any candidate at all in this year’s presidential race, Reuters reported, in what would be a massive blow to Joe Biden.

Biden has heavily courted the 1.3 million-member union. It backed him over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters would not endorse Trump but deep internal divisions mean the union may not back any candidate at all, instead staying neutral.

That would mark the first time since 1996 the union failed to endorse a presidential contender.

Biden has campaigned heavily as a supporter of unions and union labor. One of his main talking points is about growing up in Scranton, a working-class town in Pennsylvania.

In a first, Sean O’Brien, the Teamsters union chief, addressed the Republican National Convention Monday night in Milwaukee.

He received top billing and gave his speech while former President Donald Trump was in attendance.

House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green is demanding DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray testify before Congress on July 23.

Cheatle is already expected to take the hot seat before the Oversight Committee on Monday.

The calls for 81-year-old President Joe Biden to step aside have quieted down since Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

But The New York Times reported Tuesday that those concerns are still very much there, quoting Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in California, telling donors that the party would lose the Senate and its chance to retake the House if Biden remained at the top of the ticket.

‘I think if he is our nominee, I think we lose,’ Schiff said of Biden at an event Saturday in the Hamptons. ‘And we may very, very well lose the Senate and lose our chance to take back the House.’

The event was held Saturday before the news broke that Trump had been shot. The Republican nominee’s ear was grazed by a bullet.

As of now the Democratic National Committee plans to go forward with a plan to virtually nominate Biden weeks ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, due to an Ohio ballot deadline.

During the Hamptons fundraiser, Schiff expressed frustration with the Biden campaign for refusing to engage with outside pollsters and political experts.

One donor contacted by The Times said he left the event feeling dejected and believed his money was better spent on down-ballot races than trying to prop up Biden’s struggling campaign.

A phone conversation between former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was shared online by Kennedy’s son, embarrassing the independent presidential candidate, who has since apologized.

The two White House hopefuls are heard discussing the assassination attempt on Trump, Trump’s call with President Joe Biden – and both express vaccine skepticism.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Former first lady Melania Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance ‘s wife Usha have something in common, Donald Trump revealed to his new running mate’s wife.

The Vances were at an event with Trump last month when he asked Usha what she thought of being in political life having a senator – and then-prospetive vice presidential nominee – as a husband.

When she gave an indifferent response, the former president replied claiming wife Melania ‘hated it too,’ which sparked laughter from Usha, according to a New York Times report on Trump’s new running mate.

Melania Trump largely remained absent from the 2020 and 2024 campaign trail after having a more public role in her husband’s first bid for the White House in 2016.

After months of speculation and narrowing of the shortlist, Trump announced on Monday he selected Sen. Vance as his running mate. Just an hour later, delegates at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin voted Vance as their vice presidential nominee for November.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sen. J.D. Vance and his sons Ewan Blaine and Vivek were seen first thing Monday morning out on the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The new vice presidential candidate for a quick trip to Walgreens flanked by members of his new security detail and walked around with one of his sons sitting on his shoulders.

The outing comes the day after Vance was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate and officially became the Republican vice presidential nominee.

MSNBC host Joy Reid has become the latest TV host to imply that Donald Trump is partly to blame for the assassination attempt against him.

Reid was on air with fellow MSNBC star Rachel Maddow covering the Republican National Convention when she suggested the former president was suffering the ‘consequences’ of ‘promoting’ violence.

‘The idea of political violence that we’ve been nursing really… is so dangerous,’ Reid said. ‘It’s so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it.’

Reid stressed that she did not want to see Trump ‘rewrite himself as a victim’ – and used reports of voter intimidation in Arizona as an example of the political violence she says Republicans have been nurturing.

‘I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,’ she explained.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz have joined forces to file a resolution in the House of Representatives honoring former fire department chief Corey Comperatore, who was killed while shielding his family during the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has been chosen as former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick and now a crowded pack of Republicans are gunning to replace him in the Senate.

The perfect candidate would need to strike a delicate balance that wins the favors of both the even-keeled Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Donald Trump’s MAGA base.

The moment Trump posted on Truth Social that he’d picked Vance, dozens of ambitious Ohio politicians began privately expressing interest in the seat.

Some sources believe DeWine will tap Matt Dolan – but he’s already ran for the Senate seat from Ohio unsuccessfully twice.

Jack Black has claimed he was blindsided by his Tenacious D’s bandmate tasteless comments about the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.

The School of Rock actor issued a statement on Tuesday, saying he has decided to cancel the comedy band’s tour – and that all creative plans are on hold – after bandmate Kyle Gass expressed he wished that Trump’s would-be assassin hadn’t missed.

‘I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,’ Black told DailyMail.com in a statement.

‘After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.’

The video follows Dailymail.com exclusive photos on Monday showing a ladder hidden behind trees and propped up on the side of the AGR building and leading directly to the rooftop where Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, unleashed his volley of shots directly at the stage.

Initially dazed, Trump told agents: ‘let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes’ as he got up from the ground.

The video, posted by WBEN just as Trump was arriving at the RNC in his first appearance since the assassination attempt, covers an angle previously unseen amid the chaos from behind Trump as he spoke.

It shows the Secret Service tackling Trump and removing his shoes and tossing them off the stage.

Donald Trump was greeted at the Republican National Convention by his family, new running mate and an adoring crowd of GOP delegates who just nominated him as their presidential candidate for a third time in a row barely two days after he survived and assassination attempt

The former president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. seemed to have a tear in his eye as his father made his grand entrance into the Convention hall at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday evening.

With a bandage on his ear, Trump also appeared emotional as he strutted to meet his family and closest allies in the VIP guest box.

Don Jr. was joined by partner Kimberly Guilfoyle, brother Eric Trump and half sister Tiffany Trump in welcoming their father and the 2024 Republican nominee to the convention site.

Absent from the guest box was former First Lady Melania Trump, who is expected to appear at the GOP Convention later in the week.

From Rob Crilly, Chief Political Correspondent in Milwaukee, Wisconisn

Donald Trump was greeted with chants of ‘fight, fight, fight,’ as he strode into the Republican convention on Saturday barely two days after surviving an assassination attempt.

The former president wore a bandage on his right ear where the bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks ripped through his skin.

It could have been his wake, but after officially securing his nomination and anointing Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, Trump arrived for a celebration.

He walked to the ‘family suite’ of oversized armchairs, surrounded by the royal family of MAGA: Vance, his sons Eric and Don Jr. (who had tears in his eyes), daughter Tiffany, former Fox news anchor Tucker Carlson and other senior Republicans.

And his supporters echoed the defiant words he used on Saturday when he picked himself up from the ground, his face bloodied. ‘Fight, fight, fight,’ echoed through the arena.

Furious MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said he was ‘very disappointed’ that his flagship morning show Morning Joe was pulled off air after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and threatened to walk out if it happened again.

The decision to yank the show on Monday sparked huge backlash and suggestions it was an admission by NBC that they didn’t trust the anchors to cover the horrific shooting.

Scarborough and co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski returned to the air on Tuesday morning, and vented their frustration at the network executives they say blindsided them.

It came hours after Trump was given a rockstar welcome as he walked into the Republican National Convention with a bandage on his right ear, where the bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks ripped through the skin.

‘Before we start this hour. Willie (Geist, co-host), I just wanted to briefly talk to our friends and viewers that watch us every day and talk about what happened yesterday,’ Scarbrough said.

‘We were told, in no uncertain terms on a Sunday evening that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels yesterday, and today’s show would be Lester Holt.

‘Other people that, well, you worked with on Sunday and that was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels that we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout, all day yesterday.

‘That did not happen,’ Scarborough added, telling viewers how MSNBC returned to its regular programming which included the first day of the Republican National Convention.

‘We don’t know why that was. That didn’t happen.’

‘Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen. We were also told it was going to happen throughout the day,

‘And I guess after there was such a strong blowback about, yesterday morning, I guess they changed their plans.

‘And so those plans changed as well. So it didn’t.

‘And, you know, we’ve talked about it, off the air.

‘We’ll talk about it on the air because we talk about everything on the air. We were very surprised. We were very disappointed. And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed, from NBC news across all NBC news channels. Willie, we obviously would have been in yesterday morning.’

Scarborough then said the next time it happens they will be in the chairs covering breaking news, or else the network can get ‘somebody else’.