I traveled with Tim Walz after the second attempted Trump assassination. Here’s how he reacted

Three days after Secret Service agents protecting former president Donald Trump fired shots at a gunman who was allegedly lying in wait for him as he golfed at one of his country clubs, the Harris-Walz presidential campaign is continuing with business as usual.

In Minneapolis, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declined to address the horrific events — the second attempt on the Republican presidential nominee’s life since a bullet came within inches of killing him during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — as he boarded the campaign’s charter aircraft for a swing through battleground states Georgia and North Carolina. Hours later, when the plane landed in Macon, Georgia, Walz did not answer shouted questions from The Independent asking him if he had a reaction to the attempted shooting. But he finally addressed the matter the next morning when he arrived at a Harris-Walz field office in East Macon.

As the campaign volunteers — arranged at long tables through the office for phone-banking — looked on intently, Walz said it was “worth noting” what had happened to Trump in Florida.

He called it a “horrific situation” and said he was “thankful” for the Secret Service and law enforcement, gesturing to the security detail that surrounded the room where he was speaking as he did. He also said he was “grateful” that Trump was safe.

“I think all of us know we don’t solve our differences in this country with violence. We condemn it in all its forms. We solve our differences at the ballot box. That’s how we get this done,” Walz added.

Traveling with Kamala Harris’s running-mate can be a surreal affair. Instead of the indignities of dealing with the Transportation Security Administration, airport security consists of a dog sniffing your