Last weekend’s attempted assassination has electrified the former president’s base and rallied party rivals. As he extends his lead in the polls, the clock ticks on Joe Biden as pressure to quit the race increases
The main security entrance for the great, the good, the sequinned cowgals and cowboys heading into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee takes them beneath the Starbucks canopy at the side of the Hyatt hotel, where the small foyer is distinguished by a gold plaque marking the spot of the assassination attempt on Teddy Roosevelt. “Woah,” one young Republican in a red blazer and loafers said when he noticed it, and that said it all.
Somehow, the bullet missed Trump in a quirk of luck and happenstance so unlikely that many in Milwaukee believed it to be the handiwork of a higher power. The Trump whoon Monday night was feted as a miracle. It was the constant and understandable reference point throughout the parade of speeches this week. Voice has always been the most potent element of the Trump persona but now his mere presence among his followers is enough.
“And we are facing an unprecedented invasion of millions of illegal aliens across our border. Rioters and looters go free while Biden and the Democrats persecute American heroes like Donald Trump. Tens of millions of Americans are made to feel like enemies in our own country, an enemy for wanting to defend our border, for not wanting our children indoctrinated in school, for not wanting to erase our history, for praying to our god, saying what we think and fighting for what we believe.
The entire week was building inexorably to the moment when Trump would take the stage on Thursday night. But in the build-up to that moment, a shift was occurring back in Washington. On Wednesday word emerged thatfor Covid. Footage showed him stiffly alighting the steps of Air Force One, smartly dressed in his presidential bomber jacket and baseball cap.
“I’ve got a message for her,” Blackburn said in a social media post afterwards. “She can run but she cannot hide because the American people want to know how an assassination attempt was carried out on former president Donald Trump.”
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