Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said Thursday that former President Donald Trump has created a special bond with Pennsylvanians following the assassination attempt against him July 13 and that he will be formidable to defeat in November.
Trump was struck in the right ear by a bullet fired from about 130 yards away by Thomas Matthews Crooks, 20, who killed a spectator and seriously injured two others at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before a Secret Service countersniper killed him. It was the first of two assassination attempts against Trump in the past two months. The other was Sunday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“Trump has created a special kind of a hold … and he’s remade the party, and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania,” Fetterman said Thursday to a crowd at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill. “And I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt.”
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