Donald Trump announced this Monday James David Vancea Republican senator from Ohio, as his running mate for the November election.
The news, published on Trump’s Truth Social website, comes at the start of the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to select the party’s presidential candidate.
The selection of Vance, author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” could increase the likelihood that Trump supporters will turn out for the Nov. 5 election, as the Ohio native is highly popular among the Republican candidate’s base..
The former president of 78 years old is the Republican hope to defeat the Democratic president Joe Biden. Vance’s selection elevates a politician who once criticized the former president in acidic terms, comparing him to Hitler, but who has since become one of his staunchest defenders.
Trump will be anointed by some 50,000 Republicans at a four-day meeting on the banks of the Lake Michigan, which will culminate in his acceptance speech on Thursday.
“We’re not going to change anything because of a tragic event in Pennsylvania,” David Bossie, head of the conservative group Citizens United and co-chair of the convention, told AFP.
“I shouldn’t be here, I could be dead,” he said. Trump On Sunday, he told The New York Post that the former president was wearing a white bandage on his injured ear.
He said he was saved by turning slightly to the right to read a graphic about migration, which caused the shot to hit his ear.
Trump He congratulated the secret service, which is in charge of presidential security, and the sniper who killed the attacker with a shot “between the eyes.”
Donald Trump aims for victory over Biden
Leading in the race despite his legal troubles and a conviction, the tycoon is aiming for victory while Biden, 81, is facing calls from his own camp to drop out of the race, following several gaffes and a poor performance in the debate against Trump that raised alarm bells about his mental health.
This Monday, a judge from Florida dismissed the criminal case against Trump for mismanagement of classified documents, alleging that the prosecutor for the case was incorrectly appointed.
“Dismissing this illegal charge should be just the first step, followed by the abandonment of ALL witch hunts,” Trump, who considers the legal charges against him to be persecution, said on his social network Truth Social, after learning of the decision.
Martin Kutlzerresident of Milwaukee and a Republican sympathizer, believes that Trump will win. “We always tend to unite around those affected,” he argued.
Trump He underwent a precautionary CT scan, which showed no problems, ABC News reported.
Trump’s announcement is expected after the violence
Following the violence, an acceptance speech is expected Trump with softened language, after having seen death up close.
Several of his supporters in Milwaukee They have vowed to unite and to put aside the mutual insults between Republicans and Democrats.
Republicans blame the attack on “exaggerated” anti-Trump rhetoric, while fears of growing political violence in the country are rekindled.
President Biden He said on Sunday that “There is no place for this kind of violence in the United States”and called on the country to “come together.”
The premises used for the convention are protected by the police and the secret service, and with large metal mesh fences in the streets.
Source: Ambito
