News - Middle East: Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump has held his first election campaign rally since he survived a failed assassination attempt last week in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Alongside his new running mate, Republican vice presidential candidate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump went to a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan on Saturday.

Trump, upon his arrival at the rally in Grand Rapids, attacked what he described as leadership chaos within the Democratic Party.

He said the members of the Democratic Party were lost in a debate over whether Joe Biden should step down from his re-election bid amid concerns over his mental health.

In a dig at the incumbent, Trump called him a “feeble old guy” who should drop out of the race, and be replaced.

In another swipe at Biden, Trump said he would rather be in Michigan giving a speech than sitting “on some boring beach watching the waves coming in,” a reference to the incumbent who is currently recovering from COVID-19 at his beach house in Delaware.

Trump said the Democrats were still undecided about what to do and asked the crowd whether they preferred he run against Vice-President Kamala Harris instead of Biden. The crowd showed displeasure and booed at the notion of Harris as the Democratic Party’s candidate.