Donald Trump forges ahead in White House bid after surviving shooting
Donald Trump cements his hold on his Republican Party at its 2024 convention this week, having survived an assassination attempt and navigated numerous legal tangles on the road to the party's presidential nomination.
During the four-day event beginning on Monday, the former president will announce his choice for a running mate, having cited as frontrunners Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all of whom will speak at the gathering.
While the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be a festive affair to formally nominate Trump, it occurs at a tense moment in U.S. history on the road to the Nov. 5 election rematch between President Joe Biden, 81, and Trump, 78.
Will party leaders try to cool tempers among Republicans? Or will they use the occasion to accuse Democrats of demonizing Trump as a threat to democracy and making him a target for political violence?
«This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would've been two days ago,» Trump told the Washington Examiner.
Biden, too, in a televised address from the White House on Sunday, said: «There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be normalized.»
He said: «The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It's time to cool it down.»
Trump and Biden are locked in a close election rematch, according to most
