They had never met before Tuesday night debatebut vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump They will be together again on Wednesday morning to commemorate the September 11th attacks.
Harris is expected to attend the ceremony at Memorial Square in New York City, like Trump, who said in an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” program on Wednesday morning that his running mate, Senator JD Vance, was elected. Ohio will join him there. President Joe Biden will also be there.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden and Harris attended “to honor the 2,977 lives lost on that tragic day and to support the families and loved ones who are still in terrible pain.”
The service starts at 8:30 am.
Harris and Biden and Trump will then travel to his home in Shanksville, Pennsylvania Flight 93 memory. It is unclear whether they will be there at the same time.
According to information from the White House, Biden and Harris will participate in the wreath-laying ceremony in Shanksville. They will go to the 9/11 event at the Pentagon at 5:00 PM ET.
Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, is expected to celebrate 9/11 in his home state.
Presidential candidates traditionally avoid campaigning on the anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in US history, but in previous election cycles they have crossed paths on 9/11 commemorations.
In 2016, Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the 15th anniversary celebration, but Clinton departed arudely and he seemed unsteady when he left. His campaign said he felt “overheated” and later said he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
Trump used the incident to question Clinton’s resilience and whether she was “tough” enough to be president.
Trump, as president and BidenDemocratic candidate Biden attended the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s annual commemoration in 2020, while spending time comforting family members who lost loved ones in the attacks.
Later that day, Trump and Biden also traveled to Shanksville, where Biden laid a wreath at the monument and met with family members, and Trump said, “America will always stand up, stand tall, and fight back.”
Harris went to New York’s memorial service last year, while Biden returned from Asia celebrated his anniversary at an Air Force base in Alaska.
As he plans to do this year, Biden went to all three attack memorials in 2021 — 20th anniversary.
Trump, a native of New York, did not attend the memorial service in 2021. mathe king stops instead of at the police station and at the fire station.
celebrated his anniversary video statement last year. “No one who experienced the horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks will ever forget the pain and suffering of that terrible day. It was a terrible day,” he said in the video. “We will never forget.”