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Trump to hold first rally since assassination attempt, and choosing J.D. Vance as running mate
- The rally, in the battleground state of Michigan, will be their first campaign event together as the official Republican presidential ticket
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Donald Trump will hold his first campaign rally on Saturday since he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt one week ago, and fresh from his nominating convention where his takeover of the Republican Party was cemented.
Trump will appear in Grand Rapids, in the battleground state of Michigan, along with his new vice presidential pick, Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance. It will be their first campaign event together as the now official Republican presidential ticket.
Republican Party officials said during Trump’s nominating convention in Milwaukee this week that his brush with death last Saturday had changed him, and that when he made his acceptance speech on Thursday night, he would call for national unity.
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While Trump began the address with a call for unity and national healing, much of his speech was his well-known list of grievances and attacks on opponents.
It is unclear what type of speech Trump will deliver on Saturday, but his diehard supporters typically flock to such events to hear Trump’s more traditional, inflammatory rhetoric.
Trump and Vance will take the stage in Grand Rapids with the Republican Party unified behind them after this week’s nominating convention. In contrast, the Democrats are in turmoil, and it is no longer certain that President Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee facing Trump in the November 5 election.
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