Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee stressed that the party’s next convention will “go on as scheduled” following the shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
“President Trump looks forward to joining you in Milwaukee as we proceed with our convention to nominate him as the 47th president of the United States,” Trump campaign co-managers Suzie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a statement.
The statement was also signed by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law.
The Republican National Convention, where Trump will be formally named as the Republican Party’s standard-bearer for 2024, is scheduled to kick off on Monday in Milwaukee, the largest city in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
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An exterior view of the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention will open on Monday, July 15, 2024 (Fox News – Monica Oros)
“Guests have already begun arriving in Wisconsin, and we look forward to working with the Republican National Committee to welcome them to Milwaukee this week,” Reince Priebus, chairman of the Milwaukee Convention Committee and a former Republican National Committee chairman who later served as Trump’s first White House chief of staff, said in a statement.
The statements from the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and the host committee came hours after shots rang out at the rally in Butler, a town north of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania, and the former president was abruptly escorted off the stage.
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Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump gestures with his face covered in blood as multiple gunshots ring out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. (Reuters/Brendan McDiarmid)
The Secret Service reported that “a suspected gunman fired multiple shots at the stage from an elevated position outside the rally venue. Secret Service agents neutralized the gunman, but he is now deceased.”
“One spectator was killed and two were seriously injured,” the Secret Service added in a statement.
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The shooting occurred minutes after Trump began speaking at the rally, with the bloodied former president being rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents.
“I was shot above my right ear,” Trump said in a social media post.
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