Chris Wallace Gushes Over Trump’s Appearance at RNC: ‘May Have Been the Most Electric Moment I Ever Saw’ at a Convention

Former President Donald Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention on Monday, just two days after being shot in the ear by a would-be assassin. The moment prompted CNN’s Chris Wallace to say it was perhaps the “most electric” one he has seen at a convention.

A bandaged Trump entered the arena in Milwaukee to raucous applause and Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless the U.S.A.” on the convention’s opening night. Just over 48 hours earlier, the former president was shot in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service. One rally-goer was killed and two others were wounded.

Just hours before, Trump announced he had selected Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to be his vice presidential running mate, and Vance accompanied Trump in the VIP box on Monday night.

Though Trump will not address the convention until Thursday, Wallace said Trump’s entrance was “extraordinary”:

Winston Churchill famously said nothing in life is so exhilarating has to be shot at without effect, and you can see that today. The idea that just hours ago, few days ago, this man, an assassin’s bullet, whizzed by him, hit him in the ear inches from his temple. Just by the slightest fraction of an inch he survived, shot at without effect. And you can see that the joy of this crowd.

I got to tell you, as somebody who’s been covering these conventions since 1964, that may have been the most electric moment I ever saw. That was quite extraordinary.

CNN’s Jake Tapper responded, “These are tens of thousands of people who love Donald Trump and they almost lost him, this figure that figures so prominently in their lives.”

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