Former United States President Donald Trump plans to return Saturday to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July,.
plans to return Saturday to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, setting aside what are now near-constant worries for his physical safety in order to fulfill a promise — “really an obligation,” he said recently — to the people of Butler, Pennsylvania .
Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, will also be on hand at the Butler Farm Show grounds, as will billionaire Elon Musk, as the campaign elevates the headline-generating potential of his return with just 30 days to go in their tight campaign against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.The campaign is predicting tens of thousands of people will attend what is being pitched as a “tribute to the American spirit.
Trump will use the 5 p.m. Eastern time event to remember Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter struck and killed at the July 13 rally, and to recognize the two other rallygoers injured, David Dutch and James Copenhaver. They and Trump were struck when 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire from an unsecured rooftop nearby before he was fatally shot by sharpshooters.
Butler County, on the western edge of a coveted presidential swing state, is a Trump stronghold. He won the county — where turnout hovers around an impressive 80 per cent — with about 66 per cent of the vote in both 2016 and 2020. About 57 per cent of Butler County’s 139,000 registered voters are Republicans, compared with about 29 per cent who are Democrats and 14 per cent something else.Three months later, townspeople are divided over the value of his return.
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