Trump’s extraordinary 7 days on the campaign trail — from a ‘disastrous’ debate to second assassination attempt

It has been an extraordinary seven days for Donald Trump since he faced off against Kamala Harris in last week’spresidential debate.

Just one week ago, the candidates locked horns in the tense 90-minute debate which saw Trump angrily peddle the baseless story that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, as Harris shook her head in disbelief.

In the week since the debate, Trump has been spotted palling around with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, taken a swipe at Taylor Swift for endorsing Harris, and faced the fallout from the Springfield rumors.

The 2024 presidential campaign took yet another dramatic turn on Sunday, when a second assassination attempt was made on Trump’s life at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump was unharmed.

Here, we look back at a remarkable week on the campaign trail

Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz, a frequent Trump critic, said the former president’s performance at the debate last Tuesday came “very close” to being the worst he’s ever seen.

Trump took a battering from a confident Vice President Kamala Harris when it came to abortion rights and the January 6 riots. She audibly laughed over his outburst: “They’re eating the pets,” a reference to false claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating cats and dogs in Springfield.

Harris, in turn, did not land any “knock out punches,” pundits said, but she had a better night than Trump.

In a sign that it was not a good night for the Republican presidential nominee, he made a surprise appearance on the spin room floor.

The narrative Trump and his team were pushing soon became clear: The biased ABC moderators were to blame for conducting fact-checks during the debate. Harris’s campaign immediately called for a