Donald Trump’s Republican Party convenes on Monday hoping to chart his return to the White House after he survived an assassination attempt that prompted him and President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, to call for national unity and calm.
While the event at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., will be a festive affair to formally choose the party’s presidential nominee, it occurs at a tense moment in U.S. history on the road to the Nov. 5 election rematch between Biden and Trump.
Trump appeared to be shot in the upper part of his right ear as shots were fired at the stage where he was addressing the crowd at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., early Saturday evening. A Trump supporter was killed and two others were wounded before Secret Service agents shot dead the 20-year-old suspected gunman whose motive has yet to be clarified.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump left for the Republican National Convention a day after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally killed a bystander. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden called for unity as investigators searched for the shooter’s motive.
Thousands of armed law enforcement agents roamed streets that were otherwise largely empty on Sunday as delegates streamed in from around the country.
Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the RNC’s liaison with the Secret Service, said security plans had not been changed for the convention, despite the assassination attempt on Trump.
“We are confident in the security plans for this event and we are ready to go,” she told reporters on Sunday afternoon.
“This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech (on Thursday) will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago,” Trump told the Washington Examiner.
Biden, too, in a televised address from the White House on Sunday, said: “The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down.”
Accusations about dangerous rhetoric
House Speaker Mike Johnson, the country’s highest-ranking Republican, told NBC’s Today show on Sunday that all Americans needed to tone down their rhetoric. He accused Biden’s campaign of making hyperbolic attacks on Trump.
“Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down,” he said.
WATCH l Shooting adds another facet to campaign already unlike others:
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