Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claims that he received "a very nice call" from his Democratic rival Kamala Harris on Tuesday following the second assassination attempt.
"Today, a little while ago, I got a very nice call from Kamaala," he said on Tuesday, mispronouncing her name as "Kamaala.".
It was very nice… was very, very nice. And we appreciate that," he said at a town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan, without elaborating on their conversation.
While a section of the crowd appeared to boo, he added, "But we have to take back our country. We have to win. We're going to win.".
I called to check in on him to make sure he's okay, Vice-President Harris said, providing her account of the call.
"And I told him what I have said publicly, there's no place for political violence in our country," she said addressing a gathering of Black journalists in Philadelphia.
US President Joe Biden had also spoken with him on the phone on Monday and Trump mentioned that during his meeting.
About his brushes with assassination attempts, Trump boasted, "Only consequential Presidents get shot at."
Trump's Secret Service detail thwarted an attack on him Sunday when an agent spotted a man with a semi-automatic rifle hidden in bushes at the periphery of a golf course in Florida where he was playing.
The agent fired at the gunman, who fled and was later captured.
The man, Ryan Routh, had given to a committee raising funds for the Democratic party, and he had voted in the primary election of the party.
Trump, in an interview Monday on Fox News Digital, blamed Biden and Kamala Harris for the attack attempt.
"He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," he said.
They get me shot at when it is I who is going to save the country, Trump declared.
Trump was injured in his ear when a sniper shot at him at a rally in Pennsylvania back in July.
Trump and Harris met last Tuesday for the first time at their debate in Philadelphia, where she walked up to him and shook his hand.
It was on the second day of the 9/11 terrorist attack anniversary in New York that they spoke to each other and shook hands.
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