Donald Trump, looking serious and with bandages, accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday at the Republican National Convention. He talked about how he felt during an assassination attempt that could have killed him.
“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump told the quiet crowd in the convention hall. “There was blood everywhere, but I felt safe because I had God on my side.”
The 78-year-old former president, known for his strong and loud speeches, gave a softer and personal message this time, inspired by his near-death experience. He asked for a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, a retired fire chief who was killed at the rally.“
"The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together, or we fall apart,” Trump said. He wore a large white bandage on his right ear to cover a wound from the shooting on Saturday. “I am running to be president for all of America, not just half of America, because there is no victory in winning for only half of America.”
Trump’s speech was the highlight and end of a big four-day Republican rally that brought thousands of conservative supporters and officials to Wisconsin, a key swing state, as voters think about the upcoming election.
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