Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will return to the Pennsylvania site today , where he was almost killed to hold an election rally in one of the most contested and extremely important states exactly one month before the elections on November 5, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
The rally will also be attended by Trump's ally billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturing company "Tesla" and owner of the social network "X". It will be the first time Musk has appeared at a campaign event for the former president since he endorsed Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
Trump was nearly shot in the head in the town of Butler by a bullet that whizzed past him and left his right ear bloodied, an incident that exposed serious lapses in the former president's security and led to heightened security measures at his next campaign appearances. outdoors.
This was the first of two assassination attempts against Trump. On September 15, a gunman hid undetected for nearly 12 hours on Trump's golf course near his Mar a Lago estate. in West Palm Beach, Florida. According to prosecutors, he planned to kill the former president, but his attempt was foiled by a Secret Service agent who patrolled the grounds before Trump arrived.
GOP officials hope Trump's return to Butler will galvanize support among his stalwarts and boost turnout in Pennsylvania, a state he and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, consider for the key to achieving victory on November 5.
"I'm going back to Butler because I feel like I have an obligation to go back there," Trump told the television news network "News Nation" (NewsNation) earlier this week. "We never finished what we needed to do," he added.
Trump will be joined at the rally by his vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and the family of the firefighter who was fatally shot during the shooting.
The assassination attempt against Trump in Butler led to widespread criticism of the Secret Service and the resignation of the director of the federal agency, Kimberly Cheatle, notes Reuters.