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Trump, with a bandage connected his ear, made an quality again Tuesday evening
Last updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 3:45AM GMT
Former President Trump's governmental rivals came unneurotic successful a amusement of unity Tuesday.
MILWAUKEE -- The 2nd time of the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee ended Tuesday with appearances from immoderate of erstwhile President Donald Trump's erstwhile rivals: erstwhile South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy -- each calling for Republican Party unity.
They were joined by immoderate of Trump's longest allies including Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ben Carson successful bashing the Democrats implicit what they claimed were harmful and failed policies.
The programme focused connected instrumentality and bid with a taxable of making the state "safe again."
Trump, with a bandage connected his ear, made an quality again Tuesday evening -- conscionable days aft helium was wounded successful an assassination effort astatine 1 of his rallies successful Pennsylvania implicit the weekend. Several speakers said God spared Trump successful the shooting, redeeming him for a divine program for the presidency.
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Dr. Ben Carson, Trump's Housing and Urban Development caput and erstwhile 2016 statesmanlike rival, took the signifier and argued that past week's assassination effort was portion of a agelong enactment of attacks against the erstwhile president.
"First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he's much fashionable present than ever. And past they tried to bankrupt him, and he's got much wealth present than helium had before. And past they tried to enactment him successful prison, and he's freer and has made different radical escaped with him. And past -- and then, past play they tried to termination him. And determination helium is implicit there, live and well," Carson said to applause.
Carson did not specify who "they" were.
He went connected to knock the media and the authorities for dividing the federation contending the second was "shredding our constitution and upending the regularisation of law.
During Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's remarks, the assemblage chanted successful grant of Corey Comperatore, the antheral killed during the assassination effort connected Trump during Saturday's rally.
"He was described arsenic the champion dada a miss could ever inquire for," Rubio said. "He was a antheral of God who loved Jesus fiercely. He looked aft members of his church. Corey was 1 of the millions of mundane Americans who marque our state great."
Rubio continued, "He wasn't rich. He wasn't famous. And the lone crushed wherefore we cognize his sanction and communicative present is due to the fact that past Saturday, helium shielded his woman and girl from an assassin's slug and mislaid his beingness the mode helium lived it, a hero."
The assemblage past broke retired into a chant of "Corey, Corey, Corey!"
As the COVID pandemic raged, an disfigured inclination continued during the Biden administration, with overdose deaths climbing to 106,699 successful 2021 and peaking successful 2022 astatine 111,027 earlier falling somewhat successful 2023 to 107,543, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Arkansas politician and Trump's erstwhile property caput Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the assemblage that she had not been prouder to basal with the erstwhile president.
"Not adjacent an assassin's slug could halt him. God almighty intervened due to the fact that America is 1 nation, nether God and helium is surely not finished with President Trump," she said.
Ahead of her speech, aides to the politician told ABC News that this was going to beryllium an affectional code by the first-time politician and long-time defender of Trump.
Sanders criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their policies connected the system and crime.
She claimed that the near "did not attraction astir empowering women," and repeated a enactment said by others that they "can't adjacent archer you what a pistillate is."
She again touted however Trump was resilient adjacent aft the assassination effort implicit the weekend.
"We can't get him backmost successful the White House accelerated enough," she said, prompting the assemblage to cheer.
-ABC News' John Santucci
