Reneé White, 57, was standing on the bleachers right behind former President Donald Trump in the “tight shot” for the campaign cameras on Saturday afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a long day waiting in the baking heat and White, who had traveled from Newland, North Carolina, was decked out in a pale “Tiffany” blue “Mean Tweets” T-shirt and a matching Make America Great Again t-shirt she picked up from Bedminster, Trump’s golf club in New Jersey. (The color was an ode to the former First Lady, Melania, she said.) She enthusiastically cheered on her candidate, as she has done at more than 30 previous rallies.

Then she heard gunshots. “Everybody’s dropping around me. And I’m just sitting there like it’s like an out-of-body experience, okay?” she said, still wide-eyed with adrenaline—and wearing the same clothes—two days later when I met her in Milwaukee, where........

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