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REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINEE Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail for the first time following an assassination attempt against him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He will be joined at a rally in Michigan by his newly-appointed running mate, JD Vance.
Vance was announced as Trump’s pick for Vice President at the Republican National Convention, which took place over the last week in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump himself was confirmed as the Republican’s official nominee at the event.
Speaking at the Convention, with a bandage covering his right ear, Trump recounted the events of 13 July, before laying out a broad agenda for his term as president, in a speech that lasted over 90 minutes.
Some of the commitments he made included a significantly tougher stance on immigration, a more isolationist foreign policy, and investment in the “Rust Belt” states of the Midwest, of which Wisconsin is one.
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He also criticised what he called the “incompetent leadership” of President Joe Biden, and said that the upcoming election will be “the most important in the history of the United States”.
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has served as Senator for the state of Ohio since January 2023. He previously worked as a lawyer, and served in the US Marine Corp as a combat correspondent – a press officer.
He is the author of the bestselling autobiography Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
Trump and Vance will be focusing their campaign on crucial swing states such as Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina in coming months, in advance of the presidential elections in November.
The Democratic National Convention will take place between August 19-22. While Joe Biden has denied suggestions that he will not run, it is as of yet unclear whether or not he will be the convention’s pick to take on Trump.
Trump’s Michigan rally will get underway at 9pm Irish time.
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@tara tevlin: the penny must’ve dropped by now for the democrats that evil ‘witchhunts’ & cowardly bullets WON’T derail the juggernaut of peace & prosperity that coming Nov 5th
@Buster Lawless: you’re right. Only common sense will achieve this. Not that you would rely on the average American voter for this as so many interviews with them show. . Btw, Trump is the self declared witch hunter general and the bullets came from a fellow Republican.
@Alan: Peace & prosperity are coming Nov 5th…… Ye bidenbots needn’t be so afraid.
He IS a proven leader & with Vance as PT his right hand the world can finally look forward to stability & calm.
IF biden & the warmongers had any shred of decency they’d hand over the reins immediately…….. Imagine by the end of summer we could have the Ukraine/Russia AND the Palestine/Israel conflicts consigned to the history books!
Some say President Trump is like a ‘Ghandi’ or a ‘Mandela’ for our generation…… After all the needless death & bloodshed under biden we really NEED the president of peace now more than ever.
Dude’s almost 80 and he’s doing a rally a week after the last one where he came within an inch of being assassinated. Even the haters gotta admit this man has some serious resolve.
@Pad: I just can’t get past that any adult with a functioning brain would buy the story of an obviously disturbed woman whose story matched the plotline from an episode of Law & Order (which so happened to be her favourite show). Yet here we are. P.S. zero actual evidence to back up her has ever been provided. Pointing to what was handed down in a corrupt weaponized court means only that you support corrupt weaponized courts. Good day. Feel free to show the audience actual evidence that backs up what you just said. You won’t be able to. Because it simply doesn’t exist.
@Jonathan Moloney: His ear was clipped. He was exceptionally lucky, not actually injured. The way Trumptards go on you’d swear he closed off his deathbed to continue…
@Pad: So we get it you can’t produce any actual evidence that backs up your claim. Great person you must be. Call me crazy but before making such a serious claim I want to be actually confident that it’s true. I guess you’re just happy to believe what you want to believe, simply because you’ve decided to not like the guy. Let’s just hope for your case that you or someone important to you isn’t subjected to such a blatant miscarriage of justice. Because if a weaponized justice system can do it to one person, they can do it to anyone. First principles. Try it some time.
@FoxyBoiiYT:
His cult are now all wearing white envelopes on their ears.
It’s the Republicans new swastika .
They look as ridiculous as their orange master.
@Pad: Yeah….a man who had playboy models falling at his feet did that to an unattractive woman in a department store in the middle of the day some 30 years or so ago (she’s not even sure of the year never mind date) in a dress that hadn’t even bern designed when it allegedly happened. Do you believe in the tooth fairy too???
@Meatball Martin: thanks for the awesome praise. I would say I’m not use to hearing it but it happens so much that I’m starting to believe my awesomeness
@Clare Power: equality is everyone having the same opportunity when going for something, for example getting elected into the Dail. Both men and women have the same opportunity to be elected by the general population in a vote. If 75% of the Dail ends up being male dominated after said vote you cry fowl and call for 50/50 representation of men and women. Meaning for you to get your version of equality is limiting the men’s chances and increasing women’s chances of getting elected. Which isn’t democratic is it?
Vance piggybacking on a guy he thought might be “Americas Hitler.” He couldn’t “stomach him”, said he was “noxious” and leading the working class to a dark place, said he was “unfit for the highest office, “etc. A political version of Melania? Is he hoping Trump will pop his clogs?
Trump naturally is happy to sublimate this criticism and ‘unite’ all republicans under the flag of his own repugnant ego.
I’ll never know anyone with an ounce of sense can consider Trumps speeches anything other than “wind, piss, and vainglorious hypocrisy”.
@William Slevin:
Trump is not President just a convicted felon.
I’m sure the majority of American people have already seen through him,and will never go back to having an unstable fool,who couldn’t run a market stall.
He was the laughing stock of the world.
Don’t think the country will want to relive that again.
The devils appear at the bewitching hour here we go again bedevilling women and glorifying a monster who plans to change the World, seem ro remember a another guy in history who had a go at that ah well every dog has his day.
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