On Monday – just two days after that attempt – delegates at the Republican National Convention officially nominated Trump as their nominee for president. Also on Monday, Trump picked Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice-presidential running mate.
Numerous pundits and politicians have credited God's intervention with the fact the former president is alive following the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump was in the Keystone State because it could play a major role in the presidential race. The former chief executive lost the state to Joe Biden by less than 100,000 votes four years ago.
Diane Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, tells AFN the turnout Saturday in Butler, PA, was typical of a Trump rally in the state.
"He has very strong support [in Pennsylvania]; our concern is election integrity," says Gramley. "… We have to get out to vote and vote in person because the main flaw is this mail-in ballot stuff. We have to vote in person. We have to get out in mass to vote for President Trump."
And the attempt on Trump's life, the pro-family leader argues, has "galvanized" the former president's support in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – and perhaps across the country.
"My husband even said right after President Trump was shot, 'He just won the election.' I think that it's going to up his chances [and] help people who have refused to accept the fact that he's been targeted for almost a decade now, really [understand] that they're out to get them," Gramley says. "They're out to take him out in any way that they can."
