The incident sparked immediate finger-pointing and calls for answers on Capitol Hill.

New York Representative Elise Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chair and a close ally of Donald Trump, said she was grateful the former president was safe. “However, we must ask ourselves how an assassin was allowed to get this close to president Trump again?”

The leaders of the bipartisan taskforce that has been investigating the security failures in the Pennsylvania assassination attempt said they were monitoring the situation and had requested a briefing from the Secret Service.

“We are thankful that the former president was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms,” Republican congressmen Mike Kelly and Jason Crow said in a joint statement.

Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, one of Trump’s rivals in the GOP primary, said his state would conduct its own investigation.

“The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee,” he wrote in a social media post.

Democratic congressman Ro Khanna echoed that message. “Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former president & the Republican nominee is unacceptable,” he wrote.

“The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, & lets allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day.”

AP