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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Republican National Convention kicked disconnected Monday successful Milwaukee, conscionable 2 days aft the assassination effort of erstwhile President Donald Trump.
A large taxable for treatment arsenic the republicans record successful is security.
Milwaukee officials authorities astir 4,500 instrumentality enforcement officers person traveled to the metropolis to supply communal assistance astatine the convention, this includes 11 Fresno Police Officers.
“We consciousness highly safe,” said Guillermo Moreno, California Alternate Delegate.
Moreno, a Fresno Conservative and vigor host, is successful attendance.
“This is my 2nd convention, things are decidedly antithetic this clip around,” Moreno said.
He says they person closed adjacent highways, and the United States Secret Service and Homeland Security are present, on with authorities troopers and metropolis instrumentality enforcement from retired of state.
The Fresno Police Department says they were contacted successful March of 2023 to supply communal aid.
“We got checked astatine the edifice for our bags and everything had to beryllium wide bag, soon arsenic we got off, they checked america again, and past during TSA we had to crook implicit our bags and our sports coats, it's astir apt astir 2 times much extended than what you would spot astatine an airport,” Moreno said.
Moreno says Saturday’s events person changed the conference's tone.
“Everybody beauteous overmuch conscionable got amped up and much solidified arsenic a ngo that, ‘Hey, we got enactment to bash this week and we each got to beryllium there.'”
He believes the assassination effort has unified Republicans.
“Even the radical that privation to beryllium classified arsenic possibly the Never Trumpers, I mean, they're each united,” Moreno said. “Really, the full delegation is connected 1 foot, which I truly haven't seen implicit the past mates of years.”
The normal volition reason connected Thursday and the Fresno officers volition instrumentality location the adjacent day.
