Donald Trump is set to hold a triumphant first campaign rally on Saturday since surviving an assassination attempt.
“I’m all in,” Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow said in a call Saturday with reporters ahead of the Republicans’ rally in her state.
She predicted that Trump and Vance would “try to rewrite history and pretend to care about working people,” but then added dismissively, “Give me a break.”
The president and his team have remained publicly adamant about his plans to continue campaigning — a spokesman said Saturday that Biden would be back on the trail “next week” — though some reports suggest discussions have begun in his inner circle about how exactly he might step aside.
The 78-year-old candidate meanwhile used the just-ended Republican National Convention to demonstrate absolute control over the party, firing up supporters to a rare pitch.
As of late Friday, dozens of the most ardent Trump supporters began lining up outside Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Saturday rally at 5:00 pm (2100 GMT).
The rally will represent a moment remarkable by any measure, with Trump striding back on stage exactly one week since a 20-year-old gunman on a Pennsylvania rooftop attempted to kill him.
“I had God on my side,” he told the convention Thursday.
Trump will speak inside an enclosed 12,000-capacity sports facility that allows more complete control of the perimeter. Security nevertheless is expected to be extra tight.
It will be Trump’s debut campaign appearance with Vance, a US senator from Ohio who at age 39 could appeal to younger voters.
And Vance’s blue-collar connection could help Trump, a billionaire businessman, win over critical swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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