ERR in Milwaukee: Republican Convention delegates raise safety concerns | News

ERR’s North American correspondent Laura Kalam was in Milwaukee and spoke to the participants.

The latest attack highlighted several security risks that need to be addressed, Kalam reported. A few days ago, President Joe Biden ordered the Secret Service to protect a third candidate, independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose own father, a senator and candidate in the Democratic primary, was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968.

However, the increased security measures do not seem to have impressed many Republicans.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said: “You’ll tell me there aren’t many people in this country who want to kill Kennedy. And you, Biden, sit by and do nothing about it – you’re personally being dragged into the gutter to do it. What a terrible president.”

Inevitably, Saturday’s shooting incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, which might have cost Trump his life had he not moved his head at a critical moment, is the talk of the town in Milwaukee.

A Republican convention delegate from Texas, Trisha Hope, remembered hearing the news.

“I was at a restaurant having dinner, we turned everything off, immediately left and went to the hotel, and I was in tears, I was very upset,” she said.

Republicans also expressed concern about his safety at the current party convention.

Hope said: “I feel safe within these walls, but I tell you, outside the security perimeter there are serious concerns.”

These concerns do not seem to be entirely unfounded. On Tuesday, a man with a knife was shot dead by police officers from another state of Ohio near the security perimeter of Congress.

Another delegate from Texas, Joanne Shofner, seemed more confident about the security measures so far.

She said: “The Republican National Convention has done an excellent job and we also thank Milwaukee – they have done a great job of keeping us safe.”

Security measures remain tight. In addition to Tuesday’s incident, a person armed with a machine gun was arrested near the congress grounds on Monday, the opening day of the congress, ERR reported.

Additional tensions are being caused by reports in US media that intelligence services have information suggesting that Iran was planning an assassination attempt on Trump – but that this has nothing to do with the events of last Saturday.

Thomas Fugate, who also attended the conference, continued to express doubts about the effectiveness of the security agencies in the USA, saying: “Our civil service in America, to whom we pay millions and millions of dollars and who have protected presidents like George Bush, failed to protect him (Trump – ed.) here even after 9/11 – that blew my mind. This is an incredible security failure at every level.”

Despite the ongoing uncertainty, Trump was celebrated by many of his supporters as a hero and as someone who could restore the sense of security in the country.

Colorado delegate Greg Yielding told ERR: “Of course his life is on the line and he’s not doing it for himself, he’s just doing it for the country, to get elected and to help the country.”

Trisha Hope added: “President Trump gave everything for us, he almost gave his life, and I was so happy to see him stand up and say ‘fight,’ and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”

The original AK segment can be found here.

The two major parties typically hold national conventions in the summer before the November presidential election to vote on candidates for president and vice president.

This year’s Republican National Convention will take place from July 15 to 18. Trump is the only candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance is his running mate.

The Democratic Party Convention will take place in Chicago in a month.

The recent assassination attempt has given rise to the slew of conspiracy theories that often accompany such events, but in this case the theories have come from both ends of the presumed political spectrum.

Some on the left have theorized that the attack was staged to get a victorious photo to ensure Trump’s victory in November. Those on the right have claimed that security was deliberately lax and only chance prevented it from happening.

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