RNC Delegates Spotted Wearing Ear Bandage in Solidarity With Trump

The 2024 presidential election remains over one hundred calendar days from occurring. The former 45th president Donald Trump appears poised to square off against the incumbent commander in chief, the 46th president Joe Biden. Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 general election, and in most recent projections, Biden still maintains the upper hand over Trump, with some 53% of simulations run by the firm five-thirty eight giving Biden a victory in November. Despite this, Trump and Biden remain deadlocked in very close polls, with the Hill forecasting an extremely tight race in crucial swing states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and others. The contest will likely be decided by a very small number of voters. America is perhaps engulfed in the most intense and tumultuous political divide the country has experienced since the American Civil War.

Political rhetoric has become nasty and heated, with many extreme comparisons being made by members on both sides of the political aisle. The former president Donald Trump has routinely been compared to “Adolf Hitler” while Conservatives have often called Democrats “Marxists” or “Socialists”. While talk is cheap, rhetoric can often be dangerous in volatile environments, and this danger was displayed on July 13th when unspeakable tragedy almost occurred after an assassination attempt nearly succeeded at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was almost killed when a young adult male gunman named Thomas Crooks, carrying his father’s AR-15, fired at Trump from the top of a building over one hundred yards away from him while he spoke. Miraculously, the bullet missed Trump by a matter of inches, grazing his ear.

At the RNC, invigorated Republican politicians and voters gathered to celebrate the official nomination of Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Early in the week, many delegates to the convention arrived wearing ear bandages, a symbol of solidarity with the former president, who had his ear wrapped up following the shocking, harrowing near-death experience.