To some participants here in Milwaukee, this week’s Republican convention is no mere political gathering; it has taken on a religious significance.
And their party leader won’t just be your standard flesh-and-blood presidential candidate with his formal nomination in a roll-call vote Monday afternoon.
Donald Trump will step into a bath of adulation from thousands of party faithful, many of whom see the former U.S. president’s survival of an assassination attempt as a divine act.
The convention was abuzz with talk of miracles, even before a planned speech by preacher Franklin Graham, and before Trump’s first public appearance later Monday.
“There is so much more energy [here] now,” said Zina Hackworth, an attendee from the St. Louis area.
“We actually see the hand of God has protected former president Trump.”
Had he not turned, slightly, to stare at a screen while speaking onstage Saturday, a sniper’s bullet might have torn through his head, she said.
Another Republican who ascribed it to divine will was driving near the convention site with a “F–k Biden” sign on his red pickup truck.
“I believe that God wants Trump to bring the United States back to where it’s supposed to be,” said Craig Basile, a 62-year-old Wisconsin man who had just left church Sunday.
Trump has also described his survival as miraculous.
As the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee gets underway, Republican supporters and political analysts alike are taking a close look at the political discourse surrounding Donald Trump after an assassination attempt over the weekend.
Trump on experience: ‘I’m supposed to be dead’
In his first interview after the shooting, he told the Washington Examiner he turned just the right amount, at just the right time, and credited it as incredible luck or an act of God: “I’m supposed to be dead. I’m not supposed to be here,” he said.
He insists it will change him.
Trump said he’s ripped up his original convention speech, which he called extremely partisan, “brutal” and a “humdinger,” filled with rip-roaring attacks against the Biden administration and the Democrats.
“I can’t say these things after what I’ve been through,” Trump said, acknowledging that…
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