Donald Trump returns on Saturday to the same place where on July 13 he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, one month before an extraordinary presidential election which remains marked by the threat of political violence.
The Republican candidate and former President of the United States participates in a campaign rally in the town of Butler, in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, one month to the day before the presidential election on November 5 where he faces the vice-president. Democratic President Kamala Harris.
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Biden’s concerns
This trip, which promises to be colorful, comes the day after Joe Biden declared himself worried about the risk that the election would not be “peaceful”.
“I am worried about what they are going to do” during the vote, the American president said on Friday. Donald Trump has never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and he is already denouncing the fact that Democrats “cheat like hell”.
The assassination attempt was seen as a pivotal moment in the electoral campaign, as Donald Trump was trailing in opinion polls against Joe Biden after his disastrous televised debate, and he surrendered two days later as a “political martyr” at the Republican convention.
But the campaign changed again a few days later, on July 21, with the resounding withdrawal of Joe Biden and his replacement by his vice-president.
Since then, the race for the White House has tightened significantly and the two rivals are engaged in a very acrimonious fight, like their only televised debate in September, accusing each other of fueling tensions in a country on edge. .
The vice-president is due to travel to North Carolina on Saturday, one of the states in the southeast of the United States hit by a powerful hurricane which left at least 220 dead.
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A speech behind armored glass
Donald Trump’s return to Butler is visibly triumphant.
Dozens of people began to gather there. Donald Trump, who will speak in front of armored glass, will have at his side his running mate JD Vance, the richest man in the world Elon Musk, relatives of victims of the shootings and the police who protected him .
“It’s going to be a big event, really something important and we’re going to pay tribute to Corey (Comperatore) and the two seriously injured gentlemen,” promised Donald Trump.
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