TRUMP SHOWS UP AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WITH BANDAGED EAR AFTER ASSASSINATION SCARE
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In his first public appearance since being injured in an assassination attempt over the weekend, Donald Trump was greeted like a hero on Monday when he entered the Republican National Convention venue with bandages on his right ear.
On the first day of what is anticipated to be a triumphant gathering, Trump entered Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum accompanied by aides and waved at supporters, just hours after securing the official nomination to be the Republican presidential candidate and announcing right-wing Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.
Trump, who is due to give a formal acceptance speech on Thursday, took his seat to the sound of country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic hit “God Bless the USA” without delivering any remarks but appeared markedly moved by the rapt ovation he received from a packed venue.
“It was absolutely amazing. I mean, just thinking what he’s been through and to come here today because he cares,” Illinois delegate Susan Sweeney told AFP on the convention floor.
It was the second huge moment of the day for the Republican crowd, which erupted into cheers earlier as Trump announced Vance, just 39, as his vice presidential pick, rewarding a one-time harsh critic who has become one of his most uncompromising supporters.
While Trump, 78, is increasingly confident of a shock return to the White House — despite multiple legal problems and two impeachments clouding his first term — President Joe Biden is reeling from weak polls and Democratic concerns over his health.
The standard-bearer for a new kind of populism that has come to the fore under Trump, Vance is also one of the least experienced VP picks in modern history.
But he embraces the ex-president’s isolationist, anti-immigration America First movement and is even further to the right than his new boss on some issues — including abortion, where he embraces calls for federal legislation.
Strong polling
He initially made his name with the 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” a best-selling account of his Appalachian family and modest Rust Belt upbringing that gave a voice to rural, working-class resentment in left-behind America.
Turning his back on previous Republican opposition to Trump, whom he once said might be “America’s Hitler,” Vance reinvented himself and ultimately won the ex-president’s endorsement in the 2022 Ohio Senate race, launching his meteoric rise.
Some 50,000 Republicans descended on the shores of Lake Michigan for the four-day convention, four months before election day.
The gathering comes with the country reeling from a botched attempt by a gunman to kill Trump at a rally in Butler, western Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
AFP
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