The Republican Party convention is starting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where delegates are expected to officially endorse former US President Donald Trump as the candidate for the US presidency. The convention will last from July 15 to 18. At the convention, Trump is also expected to announce who will be running as his vice presidential running mate. According to the plan of the convention, the official announcement of the Republican presidential candidate will take place on the last day of the convention - July 18, UNN reports with reference to Voice of America.
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The convention is taking place amid dramatic events - during a rally in Pennsylvania, an attempt was made on Trump's life, which left him and spectators injured and one person dead. The former US president plans to attend the convention in Milwaukee despite the attack, he said in a post on Truth Social.
"I truly love our country and all of you and look forward to addressing our great nation this week in Wisconsin," Trump wrote.
Against the backdrop of the assassination attempt, both Trump and current US President Joe Biden called for national unity and calm.
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The US media emphasize that among the likely candidates for the Republican vice presidential nomination are Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. Also, according to Bloomberg, Trump called his former rival in the Republican primary Nikki Haley after the assassination attempt and offered to attend the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee in an attempt to try to unite the party.
It was the message of the country's unity that Trump was trying to convey on the eve of the convention. "This is a chance to bring the whole country together, even the whole world. The language (at the convention) is going to be very different, very different from what it would have been two days ago," Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner .
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Security measures are tightened at the convention in Milwaukee. Convention participants emphasize that the attack on Donald Trump only unites them around the candidate.
"It has made all of us, including President Trump, more determined to fight and win. President Trump has the same spirit as Winston Churchill, who said: "We will fight them on the beaches. We will fight them in the cities. We will fight them in the streets." And this time, we will fight and win," South Carolina delegate Harrison Muselwhite told VOA.
As previously reported by Voice of America , US President Joe Biden called for unity and again condemned the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump and expressed condolences to the family of the victim of the attack and the injured.