President Donald Trump has opened up about a call he received from President Joe Biden shortly after he was nearly killed in an assassination attempt on July 13.

During a joint sit down with his vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump retold the conversation he had with Biden after turning his head during a rally and narrowly avoiding a round from an AR-15 rifle. Re-creations of the shooter’s angle show that President Trump would likely have been struck in the side and back of the head if he hadn’t turned to look at a chart during his speech.

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“It was good. It was a nice conversation,” Trump told Fox News host Jesse Watters in his first interview since the incident. “He said ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right.’ Obviously someone briefed him, but he did say that to me. ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right.'”

Watters was quick to add to the lighthearted moment: “The country is lucky if it turns to the right.”

“Wouldn’t it be nice?” Trump responded.

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Earlier in the interview, President Trump recounted the rapid response of his Secret Service agents and recalled a brief dispute over their desire to carry him from the stage on a stretcher. Instead, Trump rose to his feet after getting nicked by the bullet and pumped his fist in the air, a historic moment that captured the public’s imagination and landed him on the cover of Time Magazine.

“They thought I was hit in this area,” Trump said, pointing to his chest, “and I said ‘No, I’m okay. I’m fine. I’m going to get up. I’m not going to be taken out on a stretcher.’ We had a little argument while I had six guys lying on top of me.”

A bipartisan outpouring of sympathy for President Trump has catapulted him to his highest approval ratings in some polls, and on Tuesday Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after publicly accepting responsibility for the shooting. On Sunday, President Biden ended his bid for a second term, a not-so-tacit acknowledgment that Trump was in the driver’s seat if the two faced off in November. Instead, he will likely face Vice President Kamala Harris, who has energized Democrats but polls barely better against Trump than her boss.

Last week’s Republican National Convention was a moment for the GOP to coalesce behind Trump’s candidacy and welcome Vance to the ticket. Delegates and guests were spotted wearing cotton bandages over their right ears, a show of solidarity with the Republican. Pop culture figures like Joe Rogan and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have remarked on the “badass” moment by Trump, the first current or former president to survive a shooting since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.

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