Harris, Trump and Vance will have Secret Service sniper coverage at rallies after Pennsylvania shooting

Secret Service will commit counter sniper coverage to presidential campaign events for all candidates and their running mates after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania.

Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe — who condemned his agency’s coverage as a “mission failure” — told reporters on Friday that the attack on the former president was the first time that a Secret Service counter sniper had been assigned to one of Trump’s events.

That counter sniper ultimately fired the single fatal shot at the 20-year-old gunman who fired eight rounds from an AR-15-style rifle while on a rooftop outside the rally’s security perimeter.

The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, struck Trump’s right ear, killed one rally attendee, and critically injured two others.

Rowe said that Trump and his running mate JD Vance — as well as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her eventual running mate — will have similar “counter sniper coverage moving forward.”

“Our campaign cadence now has obviously picked up, and we’re going to put all the resources out there to address any challenges that we have,” Rowe said from Washington, DC, on Friday.

Rowe clarified that while the rally marked the first time that Secret Service had deployed a counter sniper to Trump’s Secret Service detail, state and local law enforcement typically provide counter sniper coverage at events.

Secret Service officials have urged Trump to avoid outdoor rallies, but Rowe said that it’s “on the Secret Service to make sure we create a safe environment” if Trump goes back to holding rallies outdoors.

“It’s on us to figure out what we gotta do to mitigate that,” he said.

Rowe — who replaced Kimberly Cheatle after she stepped down following