Saturday will be exactly one month until the 2024 elections, and then former President Donald Trump will return to Butler – the site of the July attempt on his life, which resulted in the death of a rally participant. His presidential campaign announced that he would be joined by a enormous group of “special guests,” including the family of Corey Comperatore, the man who was killed at the July 13 rally, the Republican Party’s nominee for U.S. vice president, Senator J.D. technology. CEO Elon Musk.
In an election year that has featured a nonstop rollercoaster of unprecedented moments, the image of Trump with blood streaming down his face and his fist raised in the air will surely be one of the most indelible.
Pennsylvanians knew the state would be a battleground state after 2024, and the former president and an unpopular incumbent — the two oldest candidates to ever run for the Oval Office — were willing to sit out the term until November. But to say that things have changed in the presidential race since July 13 would be an understatement.
Former presumptive Democratic nominee President Joe Biden left the race on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Democrats nominated at their August convention. Trump now faces a younger opponent who has hampered his polling and popularity, rather than the older Biden, who appears to have lost his fastball.
While he is expected to honor Comperatore and the first responders who were at the scene of the Saturday, July 13 rally, it is also likely that Trump will express his displeasure in a conversation with special counsel Jack Smith, whose 165-page motion outlining Trump’s alleged actions to aimed at overturning The 2020 election results were released on Wednesday.
Much of the filing concerns Trump’s interactions with people in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Judge Tonya Chutkan is tasked with determining which of Smith’s charges can be accepted under the US ruling judgment of the Supreme Court of July 1 that former presidents enjoy immunity from certain official acts and duties, but not immunity from personal acts. Smith argues that Trump acted in a private capacity after the 2020 election, on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by an incensed mob.
Pennsylvania’s presidential race remains extremely close, with most polls showing Harris and Trump neck and neck. The battle for the state’s 19 electoral votes brought candidates and surrogates to urban, suburban and rural areas of Pennsylvania, trying to reach undecided voters who could ultimately tip the scales one way or the other.
While Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania in 2016, Biden won over Trump in 2020 by about 80,000 votes.
Trump is scheduled to take the stage in Butler at 5 p.m
This is a developing story and will be updated
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