Secret Service Chief Says Political Division Has Shifted Threat Landscape Ahead Of DNC, RNC
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“I think that the environment that we're dealing with today is certainly different than it was four years ago," Kimberly Cheatle, who heads the Secret Service, said.
The director of the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday ongoing political division has created a “constantly” evolving threat environment ahead of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, but there is no credible threat to either event ahead of their scheduled dates over the next month.
Republicans are set to gather for the RNC in Milwaukee next week, where former President Donald Trump is all but guaranteed to become the party’s official nominee. Democrats will do the same in Chicago in mid-August, but the party’s political calculus has shifted dramatically after President Joe Biden’s performance at the debate against Trump last month.
Kimberly Cheatle, who heads the Secret Service, said the agency had been preparing for both events for a year and a half.
“I think that the environment that we’re dealing with today is certainly different than it was four years ago. I’m sure we’ll see an evolution in the next four years as well,” Cheatle told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, adding extreme political polarization had definitely played into the shift. “But it is definitely something that we take into consideration.”
Stephanopoulos asked if there were any specific or credible threats ahead of the conventions, but Cheatle said there was nothing “out there right now.”
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