President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump and his operating mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, all stood collectively at the memorial in New York Metropolis for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults.
Standing in the identical row on the ceremony had been Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, Mr. Biden, Harris, Michael Bloomberg, Trump, Vance and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani, now an in depth Trump ally, was mayor on the time of the assault, and Bloomberg was elected mayor in November 2001.
Harris and Trump had been recent off their contentious debate on Tuesday evening in Philadelphia, the place they traded barbs over immigration, abortion, the economic system, international coverage and extra. It is unclear if there might be one other debate.
Harris and Trump shook arms earlier than the ceremony. Trump was requested on Fox & Mates forward of the ceremony if he’d communicate to Harris on the memorial.
“Oh, I do not know,” he replied. “I am unsure.”
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The names of the two,983 victims of the terrorist assaults on the 2001 assaults on the World Commerce Heart, the Pentagon, aboard Flight 93 and within the 1993 World Commerce Heart bombing are learn aloud by relations of the victims.
Citywide moments of silence happen at 8:46 a.m. marking the second when hijacked Flight 11 struck the North Tower, and 9:03 a.m., when hijacked Flight 175 struck the South Tower. One other second of silence adopted at 9:37 a.m., the time when hijacked Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
Mr. Biden, Harris and Trump then traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the place United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Biden and Harris participated in a wreath-laying ceremony on the Flight 93 Nationwide Memorial, and Mr. Biden and Harris met privately with members of the Shanksville Volunteer Hearth Division. The White Home stated Mr. Biden introduced beer and pizza to the division.
After the ceremony at Floor Zero, Trump and Vance visited Engine Firm 4, Ladder Firm 15 in downtown Manhattan. Vance additionally visited the BGC buying and selling flooring, which is a part of Cantor Fitzgerald. The worldwide monetary agency had greater than 650 workers killed within the Sept. 11 assaults.
Trump thean headed to Shanksville, along with his son Eric and several other marketing campaign staffers. They visited the United 93 memorial as properly, then went to the hearth division.
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